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Current Feed ContentBig Read : Frantz Fanon: The 20th century’s pre-eminent thinkerFrantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a psychologist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is...Big Read: ROOTS - Kunta Kinteh at 30(1976: the Year of Soweto’s youth and the beginning of the end for Apartheid)A personal appreciation by Dida Halake, Daily Observer, 2006, "Dwell on the past and you lose an eye; forget the past and you lose both eyes" Russian proverb This book, with the blessings of Allah, is responsible for the lives of Hassan Kah-Halake, Jainaba Jallow-Halake and little Hassan Jallow-Halake, my three beautiful Gambian children. Similarly, it is also responsible for "HassanKunda" compound in Kotu, "Al-Hassan...Gambia and the African Diaspora(Editorial by Dida Halake for Gambia’s Daily Observer, October 31st 2002) At the Roots Homecoming Festival’s Opening Ceremony in June this year (2002), I was delightfully surprised to hear announced the name of an old friend from the streets of Notting Hill: "The International Speaker this year is Leo Muhammad from London", boomed the MC. I knew Brother Muhammad as a "militant" Nation of Islam leader in London, and we both attended the British Government’s Inquiry into the racist murder of...More than 530 Dignitaries to Join Ma’s InaugurationAn estimated 530 foreign delegates are expected to attend president-elect Ma Ying-jeou’s presidential inauguration next Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed. “There are more than 530 foreign guests, including special envoys from 22 out of 23 diplomatic allies, that will attend the inauguration ceremony,” MOFA spokeswoman Phoebe Yeh said at a press briefing. The Caribbean allies of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are planning to dispatch a presidential office secretary-general and...The Big Read: Aimé Césaire : The quest for the restoration of African identityThere are two ways to lose oneself: by a walled segregation in the particular or by a dilution in the 'universal' — Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) Martinican poet, playwright, and politician, one of the most influential authors from the French-speaking Caribbean Aimé Césaire formulated, with Léopold Senghor and Léon Gontran Damas, the concept and movement of Négritude, defined as "affirmation that one is black and proud of it". Césaire's thoughts about restoring the cultural identity of black...Aimé Césaire: poetry as weaponThe passionate, lyrical voice of the poet from Martinique was part of a lifework that embrace négritude, Marxism and surrealism all in one, says Nira Wickramasinghe. "Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge" (Aimé Césaire) Aimé Césaire died on 17 April 2008 in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique at the ripe age of 94. His life and political choices are truly captured in his friend and surrealist writer André Breton's words: Césaire was...AimÈ CÈsaire dies at 94AimÈ CÈsaire, the esteemed Martinique poet, has died. He died on Thursday, early in the morning. CÈsaire was aged 94. In a statement re-echoed by Radio France International (RFI), President Nicolas Sarkozy described CÈsaire as "a great poet" and a "great humanist." He also said CÈsaire was "a symbol of hope for all the oppressed." CÈsaire was a fixture in France's parliament for nearly half a century and a key figure in the fight for French Caribbean rights. It could be recalled that the... |
