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I cry for my own worth—thrown away  / like sand

 
 

 

Books by Kola Boof  

 

Nile River Woman (Poems, Feb. 10, 2004)  / Long Train to the Redeeming Sin-Stories About African Women (April 6, 2004)

 Flesh and the Devil: A Novel (May 11, 2004)  /   Diary of a Lost Girl (2007)

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SUDAN: Purple Eye

                           By Kola Boof

I lose my breathe and my heart
tightens; my blood
hard as chestnuts

For the Blue Black faces of the slaves
For the Arab hate-the brown and yellow
hate
that demands world silence

I cry for my own worth—thrown away
like sand from my Egyptian grandmother's
hand

demon night of the horse…quickened blood
Jihad from crackling screams

I pray for cleanliness in Sudan

The cleanliness of our goddess…Sudan
O Blue Black angel woman
who gave birth to our land
mother goddamn.
Let us pray for Sudan.

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Whenever I remember the night of August 21st, 2002…and once again see the faces of the three Arab-Islamic boys who attempted to murder me…it makes me know that my work is right, and that my life is not in vein. For I have always believed that the reason that women give birth (not just to children, but to anything) is because that is the only way in which the world can be changed. www.kolaboof.com/

 

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Parable of the Cellphone (Marvin X)

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Audio: My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)

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Bob Dylan: Only a pawn in their game / The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

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Panel on Literary Criticism

26 March 2010

 National Black Writers Conference

Patrick Oliver, Kalamu ya Salaam, Dorothea Smartt, Frank Wilderson discuss the use of literature to promote political causes and instigate change and transformation.  The event is at the Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York. C-Span Archives

Panel on Politics and Satire

26 March 2010

 National Black Writers Conference

Herb Boyd, Thomas Bradshaw, Charles Edison and Major Owens discuss how current events are reflected in the writings of African Americans.  The event is at the Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York. C-Span Archives

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