Black Canon

Hari Ziyad is an author whose debut novel , Black Boy Out of Time, a story of growing up black and queer in Cleveland Ohio was recognized amongst the best LGBTQ books in 2021.

Akbar Hussain is a lawyer and co founder of a successful start up. He lived in Nairobi for 7 years and currently resides in New York City. He was born in India and grew up in Switzterland.

Truth is A flightless Bird is his first novel.

Poetry by the fire pit is a poetry event organised by students at Fisk Universty, an HBCU in the heart of Nashville in Tennesse.

this is our 2nd part of the coverage of the poetry workshop organized by Peter Khan which took place at the Columbus Metropolitan Library.

Poetry event organized by Peter Kahn brought together young writers, Dennison University students, mentor by Barbara Fant(poet), Hanif Abubakarik (poet and novelist) and Malika Brooker(poet fron the UK) for a night of spoken words and poetry.

We are continuing our conversation with Munashe Kaseke, author of the collection of stories " Send Her Back " which was published July 25 2022 by Mukana Press. She was born and raised in Harare Zimbabwe and immigrated to the United States at age 19 . 

Munashe Kaseke was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She migrated to the United States of America at the age nineteen when she received a scholarship to study at Drake University in Des Moines , Iowa. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy and Master in Public Administration degrees. Munashe currently lives and works in Northern California.

James Baldwin was an American writer and activist born in Harlem August 2, 1924. As a writer, he ganered acclaim accrossvarious mediums, including essays, novels, plays and poems.

Isabel Wilkerson is an american journalist and author of the book Castes The Origins of our discontent. She was born in Washington DC, graduated from Howard University where she earned a degree in Journalism. She won the Putlizer Prize for her first book The Warmth of Others Sun.

Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian-American novelist and short-story writer based in New York City. She is known for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, which has garnered her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award.

Aime Cesaire is a Martinican  and French poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Negritude movement in francophone literature . He was born June 26, 1913 in BASSE POINTE , MARTINIQUE and died in 2008.

Zadie Smith is a an English novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Her debut novel White Teeth immediately became a best seller and won her number of awards. She is a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty of New York University since 2010.

Yaa Gyasi ( born in 1989 ) is a ghanaian-american novelist. Her debut novel Homegoing published in 2016 won her at the age of 26, the National Book Critic Circle award and the Pen/Hemingway award . 

Nazi Boni was born December 31, 1909 in Upper Volta now Burkina Faso. He was a politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on behalf of the Voltaic Union. He also was the first writer from Burkina Faso to ever been published. His novel , Crepuscule des temps anciens, was published in 1962 by Presences Africaines.

Ntozake is a renowned playwright , poet , and novelist. Her works include " Some Sing, Some Cry", which she wrotes with Ifa Bayeza; " Betsy Brown " . 

God's Bits of Wood is 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Sembene Ousmane about a railroad strike in colonial Senegal in the 1940s. it was first published in French under the tittle Les Bouts de bois de Dieu.

A Promise Land is a memoir by Barack Obama , the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. It was published November 17, 2020 by Crown Publishing Group.

We are continuing our celebration of Black history month by listening to spoken words by Shihan, Bassey Ikpi, and many more and also exploring more historical events part of the black experience in this country.

We are celebrating black history month by having a little bit of fun on the show. We are listening to spoken word performances by Sekou the Misfit and Steve Connell and at the same time learning a few facts about the black experience in the US.