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Peter Eric Adotey Addo Bio
Books by Peter Adotey Addo
How
the Spider Became Bald: Folktales and Legends from West Africa
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Talking Drums An Anthology of Poetry
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P E Adotey Addo
was announced as a promising poet and a story teller
in a 1957 symposium of Ghanaian writing called Voices
of Ghana. He has traveled and experienced much
since his poem about the founding father of Pan Africanism was published in that publication. Most of his career
had been as a College teacher
of Religion and Science . He is a poet, a
storyteller and writer, a folklorist, a theologian, and a
biologist.
His works have been published by The
Daily Graphic, in Accra, Ghana,West Africa; The
Ghanaian Times, Accra, Ghana, West Africa; The
Scope, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; The
Palmetto Leader, Columbia, South Carolina; The Charlotte
Poetry Review, Charlotte, North Carolina; The North
Carolina Christian Advocate, Greensboro, North
Carolina, The Greensboro Daily News and Record and
The Yale University School of Medicine, to mention just a
few.
The greatest influence on Rev Addo, as he puts it,
was the encouraging words of the Founder of the Republic
of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, after the publication
of his poem on the first anniversary of the
Independence of Ghana in 1958. He has authored one
anthology of poems,
Talking Drums,1999, and two
collections of folktales, Ghana Folktales,
1968 and
How the Spider Became Bald,
1993, and his numerous writings have appeared
in several countries and languages. On a more personal note, Addo is a retired United Methodist Minister
and College Chaplain and now devotes all of his time
visiting schools and colleges and Churches for readings
and talks. He lives with his family in Greensboro, North
Carolina.
Rev P E Adotey Addo
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http://www.retirementwithapurpose.com/africanchristmas.html
www.addo.ws
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P O Box
13356,Greensboro NC27415 / 336 375 5761 / Fax 336 375 0068
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
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Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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update
3 December 2011
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