Set Speaks Other/Wise
October 27th, 2009 — in the Year of Our Word (to quote Looking for Livingstone) Haven’t been in Africa 24 hours yet. Am sitting in an internet cafe writing a blog for the first time ever. At my...
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October 28th So, after another drug-induced night of sleep, courtesy of Big Pharma, I’m once again sitting in the restaurant of the Guest Quarters at the University of Ghana. My choices for breakfast...
View ArticleLetter to Haiti
February 9, 2010 Haiti, I weep for you. I hide my tears because I’m on a flight from Kelowna, British Columbia, to Toronto, and who knows, with all the heightened security I fear they may think...
View Articleluv song for rob ford
luv song for rob ford (a work in progress) Rob Ford wuz here – graffiti in toronto ravine ever smelt the early morning smell of green in deep ravines seen the flash of red cardinal or the red winged...
View ArticleAfrofest: We Will Not Be Moved
Afrofest: We Will Not Be Moved Black bodies are always being moved around and are always made to feel illegitimate in “white” spaces, even as Black cultural products are appropriated and consumed by...
View ArticleRace-baiting and The Writer’s Union of Canada
Race-baiting and The Writer’s Union of Canada by NourbeSe Philip Hal Niedzviecki has every right to express his opinion, as badly argued and uninformed as it is; after all, we do have protections...
View ArticleLetter
Open letter to Ngugi wa Thiongo When did I start reading you? I believe it was after I wrote She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks because I know that when I began to read you, there was a...
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Correspondence among all the parties involved in the unauthorised translation...
Timeline 2016: Renata Morresi contacts NourbeSe regarding wish to write Italian translation of Zong!June 11 2021: Benway announces Italian translation of Zong!June 11 2021: NourbeSe asks Suzanna...
View ArticleOutline of Events Related to the Unauthorised Translation of Zong! as told to...
lives own their facts/…facts own their lives… (Zong! #22) 1. In 2016 Renata Morresi, wrote to me stating that she was interested in translating Zong! into Italian. Renata Morresi stated that she did...
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