Final List_ Nationalism Anthology Vol 2

Table of Contents

Contributor’s bio Notes………………………………………….vii

Introduction……………………………………………………...xvii

Nonfiction and Scholarly Essays…………………………………1

Fanon’s Failure of Failure: Nica Cornell (South Africa)

Trumpism and Fetishism:  Is it the Beginning of the End of the Hegemony?: Andrew Nyongesa (Kenya)

There is a Lot of ‘inoracy’ in Donald Trump’s ‘Shit-Hole’ Utterance: Alexander Opicho (Kenya)

AMERICA VS AFRICA: Chenjerai Mhondera (Zimbabwe)

A message from the other: Joseph Pravda (USA)

facing page: Oupa Maurice as a Lieutenant, 1917: Mike Kantey (South Africa)

Visit the Populist Nationalism of Donald Trump in the Era of Globalisation: Luc KOFFI (Ivory Coast)

CHILD BOMBER IN THE NORTH EAST NIGERIA:  A VICTIM OR PERPETRATOR?: CHINWEIKE OFODILE (Nigeria)

It ain’t tyranny if it’s privatized (Big Brother Inc. is watching you): Tim Bearly (USA)

Somewhere in Afrika: Zongezile Matshoba (South Africa)

Fiction……………………………………………………………135

The Hero: Tim Hall (USA)

The Campaign: Paris Smith USA)

A Party:Tim Hall (USA)

Poetry………………………………………………………….…172

Trump Refused to know: Alexander Opicho (Kenya)

SHITSMAN MY STATESMEN: Chenjerai Mhondera (Zimbabwe)

For Norman Morrison: Tim Hall (USA)

PARADOX IN THE JUNGLE: Larry Blazek (USA)

THE SHORT CUT TO THE PARKING LOT: Larry Blazek (USA)

PRODUCT: Larry Blazek (USA)

SHAMELESS WAS MISTER MANDOZA: Jorge d’Amizade (Mozambique/Japan)

HONEYCOMBS: Jorge d’Amizade (Mozambique/Japan)

MESSIAH FOR THE MISLED: Chad Norman (Canada)

US and THEM: Mandhla A Mavolwane (Zimbabwe)

I’m Humanity; I Outlive Walls:Tim Fab-Eme (Nigeria)

The Measure You Use: Tim Fab-Eme (Nigeria)

America: Adjei Agyei-Baah (Ghana)

trump-trump-trump-trumptrump-trump-trump-trump: Archie Swanson (South Africa)

Wheels and walls: the shutdown speeches: January 2019: Cheryl Caesar (USA)

If (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling): December 2018: Cheryl Caesar (USA)

Press Conference in the Rose Garden: October 2018: Cheryl Caesar (USA)

Afreet of White Privilege: David Holper (USA)

Charlottesville: David Holper (USA)

Charlottesville: Sean Lause (USA)

Ode to The Eagle: Fareed Agyakwah (Ghana)

SPLIT: Dee Allen (USA)

NEW HOMES: Dee Allen (USA)

TOTAL OPPOSITE: Dee Allen (USA)

ALIEN IN THE APE JUNGLE:Isaac Kilibwa (Kenya)

7^thSpeed Bowling Alone By Candlelight: Gerry Sarnat (USA)

Amendment XIV: F.I. Goldhaber (USA)

The War on Terrorism: F.I. Goldhaber (USA)

WE THE PEOPLE:Jonathan Thompson (South Africa)

Of Inheritance: Miriam Bird Greenberg (USA)

Paper Dragon: Bruce Louis Dodson (Sweden)

SWAMPED: Bruce Louis Dodson (Sweden)

Nepotism Tango: Bruce Louis Dodson (Sweden)

BLACKBIRD: Cynthia K Matale (Botswana)

ROSES: Cynthia K Matale (Botswana)

NATIONALISM: Cynthia K Matale (Botswana)

The Trump Pledge: Bill DeArmond (USA)

Donald’s Breakfast: Munyaradzi Gibson Bopoto (Zimbabwe)

interview questions at the U.S embassy: Nkateko Masinga (South Africa)

while the world was burning : Nkateko Masinga (South Africa)

Sunday Best: Nkateko Masinga (South Africa)

Private Conversation: Changming Yuan (Canada)

Trade Deficit: Chinese Exported into English-: Changming Yuan (Canada)

Refugeeing: Changming Yuan (Canada)

After: Riak Marial Riak (South Sudan)

Sea migrant: Riak Marial Riak (South Sudan)

Healing: Xolani Ntuli (South Africa)

Policing the World: Zongezile Matshoba (South Africa)

Trumped: Zongezile Matshoba (South Africa)

Political poem: Silke Heiss (South Africa)

TRUMP ENIGMA: Okey Ifeachor (Nigeria)

Play………………………………………………………………254

Marshall Law: Joseph Pravda (USA)

Belief: Miriam Bird Greenberg (USA)

Publisher’s List…………………………………………………..266

About Editor

TendaiRinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, translator, mentor, writer, visual artist and musical artist with close to 30 books published. He writes in English and Shona. His work has appeared in over 400 journals and anthologies from over 30 countries. Work has been translated into or is being translated into Spanish, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Bengali, Hungarian, Tamil, Romanian, French and German.

Contributor’s Bio Notes

Fareed Agyakwah (b.1984) also known as Kente Agyakwa is an award winning essayist, columnist, and a born PESTEL (Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal) poet with radical lyrical verve. Agyakwah was conventionally educated at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana- the same university whose hospital saw his birth. He has been writing extensively on peace lately. His debut book on World Peace for children is to be published soonest. His work has been published in The Harmony: Indo African Footprints, Setu Bilingual Journal of Arts Literature and Culture, Indology, Versatile verses and several other magazines, journals and anthologies

Adjei Agyei-Baah is a lecturer, translator, editor and currently a PhD student at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is the co-founder of Africa Haiku Network, Poetry Foundation and the Mamba Journal, Africa’s first international haiku journal. Adjei is a worldwide-anthologized poet and winner of several international awards. His maiden haiku collection Afriku published by Red Moon Press, 2016, was commended at The 1st Asian Literature Festival held in Gwangju, 2017 by Professor Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Prize Literature laureate. His other books are Trio of Window (co-authored, 2018), Ghana-21 Haiku (2018) and Piece of My Fart (2018). 

Dee Allenis an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early 1990s. Author of 4 books [ Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater and his newest, Skeletal Black, all from POOR Press ] and 18 anthology appearances [ including Poets 11: 2014, Feather Floating On The Water, Rise, Your Golden Sun Still Shines, What Is Love, The City Is Already Speaking, The Land Lives Forever and the newest from Los Angeles-based Vagabond Books, Extreme ] under his figurative belt so far.

Larry Blazek: I live on a small farm write poetry, short stories and play guitar. I tinker with mechanical devices and have built my own vehicles. I grow some of my own food organically. I have been published in the "LUCKLOW","DAMFINO","PUFF PUFF","PANOPOLYZINE" ,"INDICIA" , and "RADVOCATE" among many others. I have been published in the "LUCKLOW","DAMFINO","PUFF PUFF","PANOPOLYZINE" ,"INDICIA" , and "RADVOCATE" among many others.

Munyaradzi Gibson Bopoto is a poet and a short story writer from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. A poem of his titled The Poet’s Sweat was published in the Best New African Poets 2018 by Mwanaka Media and Publishing. He has performed in arts festivals and pubs in Bulawayo and in 2018, he hosted his own arts event as well. His inspiration comes from various aspects like nature, philosophy, Greek mythology, love, and politics among other issues. His other passions include acting and songwriting. At the moment he is studying for a Diploma in Education at Hillside Teacher’s College.

Cheryl Caesar lived in Paris, Tuscany and Sligo for 25 years; she earned her doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne and taught literature and phonetics. She returned to her home town in halcyon years of the Obama administration, only to be blindsided in November 2016. She now teaches writing at Michigan State University. She demonstrates in the street and online, gives readings locally and has published poems of protest in Writers Resist and The Mark Literary Review, and other poems in Poetry Leaves, The Trinity Review and The Mojave River Review.

Edgar Cambaza, pseudonym Jorge d’Amizade is Mozambican, born in Maputo City. First, his passion was comics. He drew comic strips a short time in Viva! Magazine. He is lecturer of Applied Biology at Eduardo Mondlane University and got his Master’s of Food Science in Australia. Now he is completing his PhD studies in Japan. He writes poems in his free time, mostly motivational, focused on freedom of expression and harmony between people. In 2016 wrote the poem “A love poetry for poetry” published in the anthology Experimental Writing: Africa vs Latin America Vol 1.

Yuan Changming, nine-time Pushcart and one-time Best of Net nominee, published monographs on translation before moving out of China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver; credits include Best of Best Canadian Poetry, Best New Poems Online, New Coin, Rowayat, Threepenny Review and 1309 others across 39 countries.

Nica Cornell is a South African writer. She has published in The Times; Aerial 2012; Africa, the UK and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production; Botsotso 18; South African Foreign Policy Review Volume III; Writing Grandmothers: Africa Vs Latin America Volume 2 and 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. She published online on The Good Cemetery Guide, The Good Men Project, The Frantz Fanon Blog, Mobius: Journal of Social Change and the Kalahari Review. She is currently doing her Masters in African Studies at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Bill DeArmond is Professor of Mass Communications and Film at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.

Tim Fab-Eme has given us new poetic forms: musical, deep and charming at once; he writes about identity, exploitation, intimacy and the environment. His work has appeared in The Malahat Review, New Welsh Review, FIYAH and forthcoming in The Fiddlehead. Tim studied engineering at the Niger Delta University; he lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

F.I. Goldhaber's words capture people, places, and politics with a photographer's eye and a poet's soul. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, they produced news stories, feature articles, editorial columns, and reviews for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states. Now paper, electronic, and audio magazines, books, newspapers, calendars, and street signs display their poetry, fiction, and essays. More than 100 of their poems appear in fifty plus publications. Their fourth collection, Food ♦ Family ♦ Friends, explores how those three things send us feasting, flinching, and/or frolicking through life. http://www.goldhaber.net/

Miriam Bird Greenberg is an American poet with a fieldwork-derived practice, and the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth, All night in the new country, and Pact-Blood, Fevergrass. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Granta, and The Baffler, and she’s the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the NEA. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she's served as writer-in-residence at the National University of Singapore and last year was a fellow at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland. She’s at work on a manuscript about the economic migrants and asylum seekers of Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions. 

Tim Hall, age 77, grew up in a white working-class area near Cleveland, Ohio. Attended Cornell 1960-4, co-edited the campus literary magazine. Went south in civil rights movement 1964-66, anti-war and anti-draft leader in Cleveland 1967, worked in factories since 1968, embraced anti-revisionist Marxism in 1969 (rejecting both Stalin and Trotsky). Active as auto worker, cab driver (led a strike), postal worker (in shop and union struggles) until retirement in 2013. Founded and edited Struggle, a Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature (www.strugglemagazine.net), for 30 years from 1985; at present it is represented by a Facebook page of the same name and the web site. Author of two collections of poetry, one of short stories, four plays, theoretical essays and is working in fiction. Lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Silke Heiss is an award-winning writer, who has published poems and short stories in South African journals and anthologies since 1990. Her verse novel, The Griffin Elegy, was serialised in New Contrast 2009 – 2010. She is a member of the Ecca Poets and her work is included in their latest six books. She published eight books of poems in dialogue with Norman Morrissey (author of Strandloop). She launched her latest collection of love poems, Path of Beauty, in February 2019, and her journey of poems to death and beyond, Greater Matter, is being launched later this year.

David Holper has done a little bit of everything: taxi driver, fisherman, dishwasher, bus driver, soldier, house painter, bike mechanic, bike courier, and teacher. He has published a number of stories and poems, includingtwo collections of poetry, The Bridge (Sequoia Song Publications) and 64 Questions (March Street Press).  His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and he has recently won several poetry competitions, in spite of his contention that he never wins anything.  He teaches English at College of the Redwoods and lives in Eureka, California, far enough the madness of civilization that he can still see the stars at night and hear the Canada geese calling.

Okey Ifeachor is a Nigerian writer, author, poet and journalist. Some of his poems have been published in national newspapers and magazines as well as in an Anthology New Voices.

Mike Kantey is a professional researcher, writer, and editor. Having graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1982 in English and African Languages, Mike spent some time in publishing industry with Longman Group (now Pearson) and David Philip Publishers. Currently based in Plattenberg Bay on the Southern Cape Coast of South Africa, he now runs his own publishing company, the Watermark Press.

Isaac Kilibwa is a Kenyan Poetry lover. His work has been featured on Writers Space Africa Magazine, Poetica Magazine, Kaafiya Milaao, Rhythm Divine Poet - Kolkata, Bonobology and Writers' Global Movement.He is the current Poetry Editor, Writers Space Africa Magazine, Editor in Chief, Poetica Magazine and Copy Editor, Writers' Global Movement Magazine.

Luc KOFFI was born in October 1984 in Didiévi, a region in central Ivory Coast. After obtaining a literary Baccalaureate in 2005, he moved to the University of Cocody (Abidjan) where he obtained a degree in Philosophy in 2009. In 2017, he obtained a Master's degree in Philosophy, Specialty: History of Science and Bioethics. His dissertation work focused on Claude Bernard's Report of Illness to Health in Principles of Experimental Medicine. Since 2018, he is a doctoral student in philosophy at Alassane Ouattara University of Bouaké with a thesis whose subject is on the Foundations and Challenges of Scientific Medicine at Claude Bernard. He is co-author of the Anthology of the Best African Poets 2018. His first novel entitled The Universe of the Flies appears in 2019

Sean Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College in Lima Ohio, USA.  His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, Struggle, Iluminations, The Alaska Quarterly and Poetry International.  He has published two books of poems, Bestiary of Souls (Future Cycle Press, 2013) and Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons (Orchard Street Press, 2018).

Nkateko Masinga is a South African poet and 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018 and her work has received support from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg and the Swiss Arts Council. Her written work has appeared in Brittle Paper, Kalahari Review, U.S journal Illuminations, UK pamphlet press Pyramid Editions, the University of Edinburgh’s Dangerous Women Project, and elsewhere. She is the Contributing Interviewer for Poetry at Africa In Dialogue, an online interview magazine that archives creative and critical insights with Africa’s leading storytellers.

Cynthia K Matale is a poet and spoken word artist from Botswana. Her poetry has appeared in spaces like Writers Space Africa and a forthcoming publication by The Kalahari Review.

You will find Zongezile Matshoba in your township or village or school or town or hall or open ground, and wherever there is a literary event for the young and old. His writings narrate the humour and hardships of township and rural life, and interrogates whether it is yet uhuru in people’s livelihood.

Mandhla A Mavolwane is a poet and a spoken word artist who writes and perfoms to entertain, educate and enlighten the masses on the issues affecting our past, present and future. He is currently studying for an undergraduate honours degree in Psychology at the Midlands State University. In terms of his artistry his poems have been published in Best New African Poets 2016, 2017 and 2018 anthologies, Africa, UK and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production Volume 1 and Zimbolicious Volume 3. Recently he published his first anthology called Ghetto Symphony which can be found on this link   

http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/ghetto-symphony

Chenjerai Mhondera is an author, poet, performing artist (poet), music composer, actor, essayist. His works appear in over twenty publications; in anthologies, magazines, online journals and blogs. He was published in all series of BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS (BNAP), all series ZIMBOLICIOUS POETRY. Amongst his independent published books are MASASI ACHINOZ (CHINOTIMBA JOKES), HURRICANE TORTURES OF NOW, HURRICANE TO THE WORLD, A CASE OF LOVE AND HATE (Collection of quotes), MANIFESTO#ANTHOLOGY OF PEACE etc. He is also a founder and patron of International Writers Association, formerly Young Writers Club in Warren Park-Mabelreign district. He is a member of many literary or writers associations in Zimbabwe and in the region. He is a citizen of the World and comes from the East.

Chad Norman continues to do things his way...as any true poet must in the current age. His poems are published in countries around the globe. He continues to arrange/ host events, helping other poets. His collection, Selected & New Poems, out from Mosaic Press, brings together 30 years of poems. He lives beside the high tides of the Bay of Fundy, in Truro, Nova Scotia. He is working on a new manuscript, A Small Matter Of Inclusion, poems which explore how he feels and what he thinks about peoples coming from other countries, due poverty, politics,  or simply seeking a better life, choosing Canada as the country they feel is where that life can begin.

Xolani Ntuli was born from Soweto, aspiring writer and performing poet and former student in mzansi poetry academy. Writer in: isiZulu and English. Performed in Siyagiya spoken word competitions in 2017 July and performed "69" poems hosted by UNISA university of South Africa and preformed in word and sound series, currently participant in C.S.P Currently State Poetry Youth Developments,.one of the member on YALE: Young African Leaders initiative 2018 Mandela Washington fellowship program. Performed at Boys and Girls Youth Africa Art and Culture competition in May 2018. He was nominated for the APAPA Poetry Awards: Best male poet and Best title poem 2018

Andrew Nyongesa is a novelist, short story writer, poet, literary scholar and teacher with great passion for literature. His novels are The Rise of Rodedom (2013) and The Endless Battle (2016), The Blissabyss (2017) and The Water Cycle (2018); all of which spin around the struggle of the underdog to subvert the values of the dominant group. His writing revolves around desire to dethrone dominant beliefs that incarcerate the otherwise free person. He has a voracious appetite for postcolonial literatures hence the focus of his scholarly works. He holds Masters of Arts (Literature) from Kenyatta University and is pursuing PhD in the same field. .

Alexander Ernesto Khamala Namugugu Opicho was born in Bokoli village, Bungoma District, in the former Western province of Kenya. He went to primary and secondary schools in Western Kenya. He studied Accountancy, then governance and leadership at the University. He is currently pursuing a PhD course in management with a focus on the gender fluids as managers. He has published poetry and essays with Ghana poetry foundation, Kalahari Review, Babishai Poetry, Face2face Africa, BUWA issue 6, Lunaris review, Afridiaspora magazine, Awaaz Magazine, Nairobi Law Monthly, Nairobi Business Daily, BNAP 2015, Management Magazine, Transnational Journal of literature at Flinders University, The East African, the East African Standard, Queer Africa Literary Association, African Voices, and on the AfricanWriter.com. He has published online more than two hundred essays, several literary criticisms and over six hundred poems. His five books are with the publisher. He believes that the praxis of literature is the practice of freedom.

J.B.Pravdawas born in Brooklyn, NY, US Government Attorney/Advisor (H.U.D.) during Watergate, when he 'Felt' uneasy about governments, and laws; later, public company CEO, lobbyist, now, multimedia artist, published produced playwright (paid royalties), columnist for leading magazines; a cancer survivor, he retired, on doctors orders, from business & lobbying; self-taught in visual arts, his paintings have been published & exhibited as well as included in a national touring exhibition as well as several multimedia exhibitions in NY and other venues. Published diversity author via major university, winning Finalist in Stymie Magazine's 1st annual collector cards edition.  Invitee, 2nd & 3rd Annual 'Slice' magazine Literary Writers Conference; Lifetime Guest Artist @ Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts via 2006 Playwriting Intensives (invitation only). In short, his work's been....paged, framed, screened &staged .>)) http://www.jbpravda.com

Riak Marial Riak is a South Sudanese poet and writer. He writes from Yei River state. His poetry is driven on life, love, death, nature and war. He had founded many platforms in the country and is now working on establishing first ever literary journal in the country. He can be reached at riakmariald@gmail.com

Gerry Sarnat MD’s won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize; has been nominated for Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards; authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016);  and is widely published including recently by A New Ulster, Gargoyle, Stanford, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Virginia Commonwealth, Harvard, University of Edinburgh, Columbia, Brown, Margie, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Brooklyn Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times. Mount Analogue selected KADDISH for distribution nationwide Inauguration Day. Poetry was chosen for a 50th Harvard reunion Dylan symposium.

Archie Swanson’s poems have been published in English Alive (an anthology of South African High School creative writing) as well as the quarterly South African poetry magazines – Stanzas and New Contrast. They also appear in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Best New African Poetry Anthologies and the 2017 anthology - Experimental Writing: Africa vs Latin America as well as the 2018 anthology - Experimental Writing: Africa vs Asia in which two poems have been translated into Japanese.  In 2016 three poems were translated by the Spanish poet López-Vega and published in the Spanish National Newspaper, El Mundo as well as the Bolivian newspaper Correo Del Sur. In 2017 two poems, labour of love and off to africa, were long listed for the Sol Plaatje Award and the poem flashback was shortlisted for the UK Bridport Prize. His poem journey is included in Absolute Africa! – a 2018 anthology of poems curated by Patricia Schonstein. For the past three years he has been one of the guest poets at the McGregor Poetry Festival and was also a guest poet at the 2018 Prince Albert Lees Fees (Reading Festival). His collection of 49 poems, the stretching of my sky, was published in 2018. Archie serves on the Board of the SA Literary Journal. He has lived in George since 1978. His involvement in the export fruit business and love of surfing has taken him to many countries. 

Introduction

D

onald Trump is our example/query/ problem or solution. He didn’t really start this though. Apartheid South Africa leaders were nationalistic and racists. Robert Mugabe was a nationalist and racist and tempered heavily with Zimbabwe’s media freedoms. He also destroyed the economy through an illegal and forceful land reform program; telling the whites they don’t belong in Africa. The land question and belongingness are divisive hot topics in South Africa now. African countries have always complained of unfair international trade practices of western countries like the USA, Canada etc. Trump doesn’t want African immigrants into the USA, calling Africa a “shithole” continent. He deported and is still deporting DACA immigrants and many other illegal immigrants. He calls the media producers of “fake news”, and threatens media workers at the drop of a hat. He has fought with the Americans on several levels, he has fought with American allies on issues to do with security and trade terms. He has grown the American economy too! He is the most divisive American or western leader of our time and at the heart of his presidency, nationalistic agendas drive it. 

Africa and the Americas since the colonial period have been vastly changed and shaped by settler politics as both the immigrants and natives fought for nationality and belongingness and through the centuries there has been a continuous refinement of what it means to belong (as a citizen or foreigner). We invited scholars, writers, poets etc., to respond to issues to do with nationalism espoused by Donald Trump and others in these two continents in investigating issues to do with capitalism, global politics, international trade and media freedoms.

This book is the 6^th volume in acontinuation of our cross-continental anthologies, and the second one in its own series. The first one had several leading scholars, writers and poets like Barbara Foley, Barbara Howard, BikoAgozino, A.D Winans, Tim Hall, C Liegh McInnis, Nat Turner, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Changming Yuan, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Diane Raptosh, Wanjohi wa Makokha, Paris Smith, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Kenneth Weene etc…, and is entitled, Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Vol 1: Searching for Interracial, Interstitial, Intersectional and Interstates meeting spaces,  is published here: https://www.amazon.com/Africanization-Americanization-Anthology-Inter-racial-Inter-sectional/dp/079748616X

In this anthology Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, Africa VS North America Vol 2,we have 10 essays, 3 fiction pieces, 51 poems, 2 plays from leading and upcoming writers, essayist, academicians and poets from the two regions, Africa and North America and their Diasporas, in these among other countries, USA, Canada, Sweden, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, UK etc. We have professors, philosophers, street poets, academics, essayists, storytellers, academic poets, playwrightscoming together to transact around issues to do with the nationalism espoused by Donald Trump.

From the first essay, Cornell dissects issues to do with blackness and racism using Fanon’s theories, Nyongesa deals with the Fetishism of Donald Trump’s policies known colloquially as Trumpism, Opicho calls it ‘inoracy’, Donald Trump’s statement, “Shit-hole”, some essayist took to the personal narrative you would find in Mhondera and Mike Kantey essays, yet Pravda used the middle ground between playwriting, Filmmaking and the essay form, Ofodile investigates the problematic issue of Boko Horam terrorism in North Nigeria as the fight for a slice of belonging that is being waged in Nigeria, Bearly looks at capitalism, so does Koffi with his French Language essay which is also translated into English, Ifeachor in his poem has praise for Donald Trump, Hall goes back to apartheid South Africa period and as a direct tangent Matshoba deals with Xenophobia in his letter written from the future. Smith looks at the white supremacist demonstrations, for or againstTrump, Thompson and Swanson encourage us to unfocus on Donald Trump, and Thompson rightly blames us for allowing the likes of Donald Trump and the kind of Nationalism and Capitalism he stands for to grow. Thus this collection of writings is rich, robust and very interesting and will be valuable to scholarship to do with Nationalism, Capitalism, Media freedoms, Global Politics, Racism and International trade.

Call for Submissions_ Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars

Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism,  Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars

Africa Vs North America, Volume2

Donald Trump is our example/query/ problem or solution. He didn’t really start this though. Apartheid South Africa leaders were nationalistic and racists. Robert Mugabe was a nationalist and racist and tempered heavily with Zimbabwe’s media freedoms. He also destroyed the economy through an illegal and forceful land reform program; telling the whites they don’t belong in Africa. The land question and belongingness are divisive hot topics in South Africa now. African countries have always complained of unfair international trade practices of western countries like the USA, Canada etc. Trump doesn’t want African immigrants into the USA, calling Africa a “shithole” continent. He deported and is still deporting DACA immigrants and many other illegal immigrants. He calls the media producers of “fake news”, and threatens media workers at the drop of a hat. He has fought with the Americans on several levels, he has fought with American allies on issues to do with security and trade terms. He has grown the American economy too! He is the most divisive American or western leader of our time and at the heart of his presidency, nationalistic agendas drive it.  Africa and the Americas since the colonial period have been vastly changed and shaped by settler politics as both the immigrants and natives fought for nationality and belongingness and through the centuries there has been a continuous refinement of what it means to belong (as a citizen or foreigner). We invite scholars, writers, poets etc., to respond to issues to do with nationalism espoused by Donald Trump and others in these two continents in investigating issues to do with capitalism, global politics, international trade and media freedoms. Send in your well written scholarly work, nonfictions, fictions, poetry, mixed genres…

For prose/mixed genres and plays, I piece per writer of not more than 10000 words. For poetry, not more than 3 poems per poet, preferably short poems. Include a bio note of not more than 100 words highlighting your previous publications. Send entries as one word doc to mwanaka13@gmail.com before 31 March 2019

This book will be published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing and distributed by African Books Collective UK, is the 6^th volume in acontinuation of our cross continental anthologies, and the second one in its own series. The first one had several leading scholars, writers and poets like Barbara Foley, Barbara Howard, Biko Agozino, A.D Winans, Tim Hall, C Liegh McInnis, Nat Turner, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Changming Yuan, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Diane Raptosh, Wanjohi wa Makokha, Paris Smith, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Kenneth Weene etc.. is entitled, Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Vol 1: Searching for Interracial, Interstitial, Intersectional and Interstates meeting spaces,  is published here: https://www.amazon.com/Africanization-Americanization-Anthology-Inter-racial-Inter-sectional/dp/079748616X

Due to budget constraints we can only offer contributors ecopies of the book. We are not able to pay royalties neither to offer free print copies

No simultaneous submissions. Authors retain copyrights to their work and are free to republish in the future

Final list

Now submitted to publisher

Africanization and Americanization: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, Volume 1
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Edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka



Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is an editor, writer, visual artist and musical artist with 10 individual books published and 5 edited anthologies which include among others, Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Playing To Love’s Gallery, Counting The Stars, and many more here http://www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/tendai-rinos-mwanaka. He writes in English and Shona. His work has appeared in over 400 journals and anthologies from over 27 countries. Work has been translated into Spanish, French and Germany.


Contributor’s Bio Notes



Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi warrior poet. Her work has been featured by Fault Lines Poetry, Windfall, KBOO and Prairie Home Companion among others. Her books include Knocking from Inside and High-Voltage Lines. She works as a data analyst for the Portland Public School district and currently serves as president of the Oregon Poetry Association. Visit her online at knockingfrominside.blogspot.com

Rogers Atukunda is a Ugandan journalist, filmmaker, writer, researcher and educator. He studied English, Literature and Film at Makerere University, Kampala. Rogers is an upstart writer. He is a published poet and short story writer. His poem Delilah appeared in A Thousand Voices Rising, An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry. His short story Daniela was published in An Anthology of contemporary short stories and poems from East Africa. He has also written a critical paper titled: Swallowing a bitter pill; the subtext in Kihura Nkuba’s When the African Wakes (still unpublished). He was published in the Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology.

Biko Agozino is a Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Editor-In-Chief of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies and author of Black Women and the Criminal Justice System: Towards the Decolonization of Victimization (Aldershot, Ashgate, 1997) and also of Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason (London, Pluto Press, 2003).

Charlie R. Braxton is a poet, playwright and essayists from McComb, Mississippi. He is the author of two volumes of verse, Ascension from the Ashes (Blackwood Press 1991) and Cinder’s Rekindled (Jawara Press 2013). His poetry has been published in various literary publications such as African American Review, The Minnesota Review, The Black Nation, Massiffe, Candle, Transnational Literary Magazine, Eyeball, Sepia Poetry Review, Specter Magazine and The San Fernando Poetry Journal.

Katisha Burt is an Albany, NY native.  She is an actor, self-published poet and educator.  Katisha has self-published several works of fiction and poetry, as well as being published in several anthologies and poetry magazines.  Her greatest passion, outside of teaching Middle Schoolers, is composing and producing poetry.

Frank De Canio: Born & bred in New Jersey, I work in New York. I love music from Bach to Amy Winehouse. Shakespeare is my consolation, writing my hobby. I like Dylan Thomas, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Frost, Ginsberg, and Sylvia Plath as poets and host a philosophy workshop in lower Manhattan

Karl W. Carter, Jr. resides in Alexandria, Va. His poetry appears in numerous anthologies and Poetry Reviews/Quarterlies including: Three Poems (Broadside Press, 1972).  Understanding the New Black Poetry (William Morrow, 1973); Synergy D.C. Anthology (Energy Black South Press, 1978); The Poet Upstairs: (1979); Drum Voices Review: Chicken Bones- A Journal 2005; Drum Voices Review 2012; Words of Protest, Words of Freedom, (2012). Delaware Poetry Review (2013); Beltway Poetry Quarterly.(2014); Broadkill Review Vol.8 No.4 (2014);  Beltway Poetry Quarterly Best of the Net  Nominee #3 (2014); Poet Lore Vol. 109, No. 3/4 (2014); About Place Journal, Vol.II, Issue IV (2014); Poetry Pacific, Spring Issue (5/5/2015); Journal of Hip Hop Studies Vol.3., Issue-1(2016). Delaware Poetry Review Volume 8 No.1(2017). He has also published a book of Poetry Southern Road and Selected Poems (2014)

Mbizo Chirasha is an acclaimed wordsmith, performances poet, widely published poet and writer. He is the Founder and Creative Director of several creative initiatives and projects, including Young writers Caravan Project, This is Africa Poetry Night 2006 – 2008, Zimbabwe Amateur Poetry conference 2007 – 2010, African Drums Poetry Festival 2007,  GirlChildCreativity Project 2011- Current, GirlchildTalent Festival 2012. The widely traveled poet and creative projects consultant is published in more than 60 journals, anthologies, websites, reviews, newspapers, blogs and poetry collections around the world. Some of the countries he traveled to include Ghana, Sweden, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Malawi. He co-authored Whispering woes of Ganges and Zambezi with Sweta Vikram from New York in 2010. His poetry collection Good Morning President was published by Diaspora publishers UK in 2011.

Yugo Gabriel Egboluche is a graduate of Geography from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He writes from Anambra State where he works as a Development Practitioner. Together with poetry, he does fiction, script-writing and copy-writing. His works have been published in The Kalahari Review, Praxis Magazine Online, Words, Rhyme& Rhythm and translated into film. His short stories have been published in Experimental Writing, Africa Vs Latin America Anthology, Volume 1 and other web-zines.

Arika Elizenberry is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a poet, editor, and short story writer. Some of her work can be found in Open Road Review, Toasted Cheese, and Neon Dreams. She holds an A.A. in Creative Writing and is working on her B.A. in English.

Barbara Foley is the Distinguished Professor, English and American Studies, at Rutgers University-Newark. She is a leading theorist, teacher and researcher on US literary radicalism, African American culture and Marxist criticism. She has written over 100 articles, book chapters and reviews, and has published 5 books; Jean Toomer: Race, Repression and Revolution, University of Illinois Press 2014; Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Durham: Duke University Press 2010; Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro, Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2003 (Paperback edition 2008); Radical Representations: Politics and Form in US Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941  Durham: Duke University Press  1993; Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction.  Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell UP, 1986.

Tanatsei Gambura is a young poet from Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, whose work explores the implications of African identity, African culture and womanhood. Both a writer and a performer, she revels in being both on and off stage. She has been a contributor in POVO Afrika's Women's Journal and Main Issue. Her earlier work was published in an anthology of collaborative pieces titled “Fresh Ink” that was compiled by Joseph Mahiya in 2015. In the same year, she was listed as one of Zimbabwe's fifteen teenagers "Who Will Shape The Nation With Or Without You". Tanatsei is currently working on her first chapbook.

Antonio Garcia is Currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University Center on International Cooperation, the author does research on international peacekeeping and future peace operations. A former senior officer in the South African Army, Antonio has served in two peace missions, in Darfur and in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as various regional deployments. Besides being a non-resident tutor at the University of South Africa and an Instructor at the University of the People, the author is a Chartered Geographer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and certified Project Management Professional.

Lind Grant-Oyeye is a widely published writer of African descent

Tim Greenwood is a former British non-colonialist, who currently resides in Washington, DC. And categorically opposes the agenda of the incumbent administration!

My name is Alyestal Hamilton and I am a spoken word artist, speaker, and writer. I am Canadian born and raised, and of Jamaican decent. Although an emerging artist, I have made significant strides since I started my poetry career in 2013.

Sharon Hammond ran a rural investigative news agency where she trained grassroots journalists and covered corruption and development stories for twenty years. But then she gave it all up for poetry and parenthood. When she’s not travelling with her partner and young daughter, she lives happily in the Lowveld, South Africa, keeping cobras, monkeys and porcupines at bay. Her poems have been published in the South African journal The Big Issue, and Meat for Tea: The Valley Review in Massachusetts, in the US.

Tim Hall, age 75, grew up in a white working-class area near Cleveland, Ohio. Attended Cornell 1960-4, edited campus literary magazine. Went south in civil rights movement 1964-66, anti-war and anti-draft leader in Cleveland 1967, worked in factories since 1968, embraced anti-revisionist Marxism in 1969 (rejecting both Stalin and Trotsky). Active as auto worker, cab driver, postal worker until retirement in 2013. Founded and edited Struggle, a revolutionary literary magazine, in 1985 and until the present. Author of two collections of poetry, one of short stories, four plays, theoretical essays and one novel. Lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Duane L. Herrmann, is a survivor who lived to tell, a writer who exposes lies and a lover of the pure light of the moon - and trees!  He is a contributor to anthologies: It’s About Living, Summer Shorts, Twisting Topeka, The Way We Were; recipient of: Ferguson Kansas History Book Award, Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship; included in: American Poets of the 1990s, Kansas Poets Trail, and Map of Kansas Literature.  He has work published in print and online in U.S. and elsewhere, and spends time on the rolling prairie reflected in Prairies of Possibilities and Ichnographical: 173.

Allan Kolski Horwitz grew up in Cape Town. Between 1974-1985 he lived in the Middle East, Europe and North America, returning to live in Johannesburg in 1986. Since then he has worked in the trade unions and social housing movements. He continues to be a writer in various genres as well as being an educator and activist, he is a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group and of the Botsotso publishing editorial board.

Barbara L. Howard was born in New Albany, Mississippi.  She graduated from W. P. Daniel High School in 1987.  She earned a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction, both from the University of Mississippi.  She earned a Specialist degree in Education from Middle Tennessee State University and a Doctorate degree in Education from Tennessee State University.  She received some formal theological study at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Howard is currently a faculty member at Jackson State University. Dr. Barbara L. Howard is the author of Wounded Sheep: How to Heal Church Hurt and Wounded Sheep: How to Calm a Storm.

NURENI Ibrahim is an award-winning poet based in Lagos, Nigeria. He has published poems both in local and international magazines/journals. His poem “Half of a Human Species” featured in Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology. He renders poetry both in verse and in performance. He is also a fanatic lover of Haiku.

John Kaniecki resides in Montclair with his lovely wife Sylvia from Grenada for over twelve years. The couple attends the Church of Christ at Chancellor Avenue in Newark, NJ where they are both active members. John writes poetry and short stories. He has been published in over ninety outlets. John believes in the power of words to transform society for the better. As a poet John writes in all styles but particularly likes rhyming and traditional poetry. John has five poetry books, three fiction and his memoirs, “More Than The Madness”. His is the Poet To The Poor.

My name is Alvin Kathembe, I'm a 25-year-old writer from Nairobi, Kenya. More of my work can be found at wamathai.com, and I have stories published on storyzetu and Omenana.

Abdullahi Garba Lame is a young poet from Nigeria

Wanjohi wa Makokha (b.1979), is the sobriquet of Kenyan public intellectual JKS Makokha who is based at the Department of Literature and Institute of African Studies in Kenyatta University. Born in 1979 in Nairobi, raised in Eldoret and Bungoma, the poet has been shaped by various aspects of Kenyan cultures and environments. He obtained his elementary and secondary education from Muslim, Christian and Public schools. He holds tertiary papers from Kenyatta University, University of Leipzig and Free University of Berlin. This cross-cultural educational experience influences his vision and craft as an artist.  The experience is sharpened by his private and public life that have seen him travel widely across Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, South Africa and Western Europe. He is the co-editor of several volumes of essays in literary criticism and theory such as: Reading Contemporary African Literatures: Critical Perspectives (Amsterdam/New York, 2013); Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures (Heidelberg, 2012); Style in African Literatures (Amsterdam, 2012), and East African Literatures (Berlin, 2011) among others.  His poetry has been published in the Atonal Poetry Review, African Writing, The Journal of New Poetry, Postcolonial Text, Stylus Poetry Journal and Kwani? 7. Nest of Stones: Kenyan Narratives in Verse published by Langaa in 2010 is his debut book of verse. It revolves around the Kenya Election Crisis 2007-2008 and carries a foreword by the respected Kenyan poetess and scholar, Professor Micere Mugo.

Clarity R. Mapengo was born and raised in Mvuma, Zimbabwe. She is both a poet and a food scientist. Being a creative and adventurous mind, she believes that life has been, and continues to be a learning curve in all spectra. Exploring the endless possibilities in the food industry with the goal of contributing to food security in Africa is just but a fraction of her purpose. If not her science then may her poetic words improve lives. To live long after she is gone, that is her goal.

 Sibusiso Ernest Masilela is a male poet born and bred in South Africa, he is a metaphysical poet who loves creative writing and spends most of his time reading and travelling. His latest appeared in New coin, New Contrast, Stanzas, Typecast and other anthologies…

Mikateko E. Mbambo is a qualified journalist and content producer by profession. She is an aspiring poet and novelist. She collects and enjoys African literary works. Apart from writing she is a pastel drawer and crafts woman. Mikateko has poems and stories Africa, is waiting to hear and read.

C. Liegh McInnis is an instructor of English at Jackson State University, the former publisher and editor of Black Magnolias Literary Journal, the author of eight books, including four collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction (Scripts:  Sketches and Tales of Urban Mississippi), one work of literary criticism (The Lyrics of Prince:  A Literary Look at a Creative, Musical Poet, Philosopher, and Storyteller), one co-authored work, Brother Hollis:  The Sankofa of a Movement Man, which discusses the life of a legendary Mississippi Civil Rights icon, and the former First Runner-Up of the Amiri Baraka/Sonia Sanchez Poetry Award sponsored by North Carolina State A&T.  He has presented papers at national conferences, such as College Language Association, the Neo-Griot Conference, and the Black Arts Movement Festival, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Southern Quarterly, Konch Magazine, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Down to the Dark River:  An Anthology of Poems on the Mississippi River,  Black Hollywood Unchained:  Essays about Hollywood’s Portrayal of African Americans, Brick Street Press Anthology...  In January of 2009, C. Liegh, along with eight other poets, was invited by the NAACP to read poetry in Washington, DC, for their Inaugural Poetry Reading celebrating the election of President Barack Obama.  He has also been invited by colleges and libraries all over the country to read his poetry and fiction and to lecture on various topics, such as creative writing and various aspects of African American literature, music, and history.  McInnis can be contacted through Psychedelic Literature, 203 Lynn Lane, Clinton, MS  39056, psychedeliclit@bellsouth.net.  For more information, checkout his website www.psychedelicliterature.com

Ntensibe Joseph: I am a Ugandan living in the central capital of Uganda, Kampala. I am a teacher by profession and a graduate from Makerere University–Kampala. I have passion for writing especially poetry and some of my poems have appeared in some local anthologies and a few in the Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology. I also ventures in a few films- these include short films like Breaking the Mesh that won national award for best short film.

Kariuki wa Nyamu is a gifted Kenyan poet, radio playwright, editor, translator, literary critic and educator. He attended Makerere University in Uganda, where he studied English, Literature and Education. His poetry won the National Book Trust of Uganda (NABOTU) Literary Awards 2007 and Makerere University Creative Writing Competition 2010.  He has been anthologized in A Thousand Voices Rising, Boda Boda Anthem and Other Poems, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology, Experimental Writing: Volume 1, Africa Vs Latin America Anthology, Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology, among others. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Literature at Kenyatta University, Kenya.

Eniola Olaosebikan is an active writer and a public speaker who currently shuffles between United Kingdom, United States and her home country Nigeria. She holds a master degree in International Business Management and asides writing and speaking, she works with specific organizations around the world to enable them realize their corporate goals.

Alexander Ernesto Khamala Namugugu Opicho was born in Bokoli village, Bungoma District, in the former Western province of Kenya. He went to primary and secondary schools in Western Kenya. He studied Accountancy, then governance and leadership at the University. He is currently pursuing a PhD course in management with a focus on the gender fluids as managers. He has published poetry and essays with Ghana poetry foundation, Kalahari Review, Babishai Poetry, Face2face Africa, BUWA issue 6, Lunaris review, Afridiaspora magazine, Awaaz Magazine, Nairobi Law Monthly, Nairobi Business Daily, BNAP 2015, Management Magazine, Transnational Journal of literature at Flinders University, The East African, the East African Standard and, Queer Africa Literary Association, African Voices, on the AfricanWriter.com. He has published online more than two hundred essays, several literary criticisms and over six hundred poems. His five books are with the publisher. He believes that the praxis of literature is the practice of freedom.

Liketso Ramafikeng is a poet and writer. Being shortlisted for a poetry anthology book tribute to Maya Angelou’s life and having her poem Woman of substance published in the book was a true mapping of how far she has come. She started writing in 2007 when she started High School. Because of her passion for writing and academic background she was given an internship at a local newspaper as a business reporter. When she is not playing with words, you will find her at projects aimed at community development. She is a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Diane Raptosh’s fourth book of poetry, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as Boise Poet Laureate (2013) and served as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016), the highest literary honor in the state. An active poetry ambassador, she has given poetry workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum-security prisons. She teaches creative writing and runs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at The College of Idaho. Her fifth poetry collection, Human Directional, was published by Etruscan Press in Fall 2016. Here you will find my TEDx Talk, “Poetry, Democracy, and the Hope of Sounds”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAokimTzo0

Nancy Scott has been managing editor of U.S.1 Worksheets, the journal of the U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative in New Jersey, for more than a decade. She is the author of nine collections of poetry. Her work has been published in more than one hundred different journals and anthologies. She often writes about issues of social justice. www.nancyscott.net.

Abel Sehloho hails from a small village called Hebron in the North of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a blogger, journalist, photographer, poet and an aspiring scriptwriter. He has a Diploma in Journalism from Rosebank College and he is currently studying BA Creative Writing at the University of South Africa. He has written articles for a community newspaper and he has established his own blog which has been running successfully for over four years. He finished in the top 20 for the Young Film Project 2016. Recently, his poem “Mother Africa” has been included in the Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology.

Paris Smith is from Chicago, Il., North America.  Novelist, short story man.  Numerous publications.

Archie Swanson is a 61 year old poet-surfer living in George, South Africa. His poems appear in English Alive 50 (an anthology of 50 years of South African high school writing), the 2014 and 2016 McGregor Poetry Festival Anthologies and in the 2015 and 2016 Best New African Poets Anthologies as well as the 2017 Volume 1 of Experimental Writing: Africa vs  Latin America. His poems are also to be found in the prominent South African quarterly poetry magazines- New Contrast and Stanzas. Last year three of his poems were translated by Spanish poet Martín López-Vega and published in the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo. He was a guest poet at the Mcgregor Poetry Festival in 2016 and has been confirmed as guest poet again in August 2017.

Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, named on the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award “Worthy” List and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review) and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems. She is the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (winner of the 2001 World Fantasy Award) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (winner of the 2005 World Fantasy Award). Her speculative stories and poems also appear in Apex Magazine, Harvard’s Transition, Smith’s Meridians, NYU’s Black Renaissance Noire, Callaloo, ESSENCE, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Revise the Psalm: Writers Celebrate the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks, The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassiafiables, Jalada Afrofuture(s), Afrofuturo(s), Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Inks Crawl, Memphis Noir, and the black women’s horror anthology, Sycorax’s Daughters. Her work has been translated in French, Urdu, and Spanish and her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times and other publications. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Thomas is the Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora.

Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet privileged to have read at the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium. He is Artistic Director of the stalwart JazzPoetry Ensemble UpSurge and has appeared at numerous festivals and venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival and Panafest in Ghana West Africa. He currently is Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report. He is also a frequent contributor to Dissident Voice, and Struggle Magazine. Turner has opened for such people as James Baldwin, People’s Advocate Cynthia McKinney, radical sportswriter Dave Zirin and CA Congresswoman Barbara Lee following her lone vote against attacking Afghanistan.

Elizabeth Upshur is an African American Southern poet, translator, and memoirist. Her poetry has been published in regional journals such as Perceptions, Zephyrus, Lost River, and Red Mud Review. She has workshopped at the Frost Place, been awarded the Katherine Bakeless scholarship to attend the 2017 Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, and won the 2016 MLK, Jr., Essay Contest. She is a graduate student and freshman composition teacher at Western Kentucky University.

Roy Venketsamy is a poet and lecturer at University of Pretoria. His work has appeared in Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology. He is also an accomplished artist and he draws his inspiration from both nature and mankind.  He has published poems with Poetry Institute for Africa, anthology entitled “ Murmuring Memoirs.”  He has published in two other anthologies titled: Poetry for Haiti and Christian Anthology in which he published a religious poem.

Novelist, poet, and essayist Kenneth Weene says that the purpose of his writing is to open our collective eyes so we can see one another more clearly. Ken’s work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and his books are available worldwide on Amazon. You can learn more about Ken at http://www.kennethweene.com

Kanika Welch is a creative writer, teacher, career coach and budding entrepreneur. As a poet, she has released an album of her work available on Bandcamp and wowed audiences across the US with works centered largely around, womanhood, spirituality and black liberation. She has taught hundreds of students in various subject areas and has over 300 students enrolled in her online Udemy course. Currently, Kanika works as Teacher Trainer in the Gambia, West Africa providing hands-on coaching to increase literacy, improve student-centered learning and classroom management. To learn more visit www.kanikawelch.com

A.D. Winans is an award winning San Francisco poet and writer. He is the author of over 65 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. He edited and published Second Coming Magazine/Press from 1972-1989. In 2010 BOS Press published a 368-page book of his selected poems: Drowning Like Li Po in a River of Red Wine. His poetry, fiction, articles and reviews have appeared in over 1500 literary journals, newspapers and anthologies, in 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature. In 2009 PEN Oakland presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was the recipient of a Kathy Acker Award in poetry and publishing.

Yuan Changming, nine-time Pushcart and one-time Best of Net nominee, published monographs on translation before moving out of China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver; credits include Best of Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, New Coin, Rowayat, Threepenny Review and 1309 others across 39 countries.



CONTENTS


Part 1: Institutional Racism, Leadership and Governance
                           
Allan Kolski Horwitz (South Africa): PRIMARY FACTS
Alvin Kathembe (Kenya): Exodus
Raymond Nat Turner (USA): Wars, Coming Home
Tim Hall (USA): The STRESS goes on...and on... and on...
Charlie R. Braxton (USA): Black Ops
Yugo Gabriel Egboluche (Nigeria): The Plague
Mbizo Chirasha (Zimbabwe): Sizobuya-We shall return
Sharon Hammond (South Africa): Granny drove over the ice-cream Boy! (after Rudyard Kipling)
Mbizo Chirasha (Zimbabwe): Banana republics
Kariuki wa Nyamu (Kenya): I want to be Nnalongo!
Raymond Nat Turner (USA): “…Look away, look away…”
Kariuki wa Nyamu (Kenya): Let’s start on at them
Wanjohi wa Makokha (Kenya): A TRUMP POSTCARD TO TRUMP
Duane L. Herrmann (USA): COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION
Wanjohi wa Makokha (Kenya): TATTOOS FOR THE MOTHERLAND
Frank De Canio (USA): A Jaundiced Perspective
Rogers Atukunda (Uganda): On footpath with long eye of history

Part 2: Slave Trade

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Zimbabwe): Vessels of dreams
Tiel Aisha Ansari (USA): Bagamoyo
Abdullahi Garba Lamè (Nigeria): NATIVES
Eniola Olaosebikan (Nigeria): Sun smiles to snows
Abel Sehloho (South Africa): Cracks of my skin
Charlie R. Braxton (USA): Declaración de la Libertad
Elizabeth Upshur (USA): An American Still Life
Eniola Olaosebikan (Nigeria): Head and hands
Karl W. Carter, Jr (USA): FOOT NOTES ON EQUALITY
NURENI Ibrahim (Nigeria): ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE
Karl W. Carter, Jr (USA): BLOOD-RHYTHM
NURENI Ibrahim (Nigeria): THE RHYTHM OF EPIPHANY
Rogers Atukunda (Uganda): Mama Millipede
Tim Greenwood (UK/USA): Below Stairs
Tim Hall (USA): Pledge of My Allegiance
Arika Elizenberry (USA): Decolonized
Duane L. Herrmann (USA): POEM FRUIT

Part 3: Nonfictions

Barbara Foley (USA): “A Dramatic Picture . . . of Woman from Feudalism to Fascism”:
Richard Wright’s Black Hope
Rogers Atukunda (Uganda): Unschooling the African to deschool society
Alexander Opicho (Kenya): Fallacy of the Divine Tongue than the Pen in Ngugi’s Rurimi Na Karamu
Biko Agozino (Nigeria): Free Merry Jay: A True Science Fiction

Part 4: Self Hatred

C. Liegh McInnis (USA): Blue Colored Glasses (for Pecola)
TANATSEI GAMBURA (Zimbabwe): Sophie
Sharon Hammond (South Africa): I asked God what he thought about guns
TANATSEI GAMBURA (Zimbabwe): The Conception of Tragedies
Tiel Aisha Ansari (USA): Dawn’s Café – Seligman

Part 5: Racism, Bigotry, Tribalism, and Tragedies

Barbara L. Howard (USA): Why Do You Hate Me?
Frank De Canio (USA): Guess Who Come Out the Winner? (or is it To Dinner)
John Kaniecki (USA): Graves on the Reservation
Frank De Canio (USA): NoBigotsAllowed (in the NBA)
John Kaniecki (USA): A Murder in Irvington
Tim Hall (USA): Yalobusha County
Alexander Opicho (Kenya):  Racism Listen! Tribalism listen!
Arika Elizenberry (USA): Red Summer 1919
Nancy Scott (USA): Lost Boy of Sudan
Raymond Nat Turner (USA): The hyphen between African and Amerikan is Wyoming-wide
Tiel Aisha Ansari (USA): Mgeni
A.D Winans (USA): WHEN A BLACK BOY WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
NURENI Ibrahim (Nigeria): JIM CROW
Barbara L. Howard (USA): Blood in the Soil: A Tribute to the Gibbs/Green Tragedy, May 14, 1970
Arika Elizenberry (USA): The Molassacre

Part 6: Migrants, Irritants, Aliens and Assimilation

Wanjohi wa Makokha (Kenya): FROM EXILE TO INXILE
Yugo Gabriel Egboluche (Nigeria): Merchants
Alexander Opicho (Kenya): WE THE MIGRANTS
Kariuki wa Nyamu (Kenya): That song will surely trend!

Part 7: Fictions

Paris Smith (USA): COUNTRY CLUB
Kenneth Weene (USA): Black Lives and My White Privilege: Lessons from Childhood
Kanika Welch (USA): LOSING IKO
Antonio Garcia (South Africa): The Question
Sheree Renée Thomas (USA): The Grassdreaming Tree
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Zimbabwe): OLD MAN, DREAMS, WRITING

 Part 8: Language, Identity, Colour and Colourism

Changming Yuan (Canada): Languacolonization
Sheree Renée Thomas (USA): The Tongue We Dream In
C. Liegh McInnis (USA): Is There a Difference Between Purple and Grape?
Sibusiso Ernest Masilela (South Africa): Heartbeat
Sheree Renée Thomas (USA): Return Song, or Why I Went South
Mbizo Chirasha (Zimbabwe): Anthem of the Black poet
Mikateko E. Mbambo (South Africa): Black
Diane Raptosh (USA): Family Tree
Katisha Burt (USA): Untitled
LIKETSO RAMAFIKENG (Lesotho): I AM HUMAN
John Kaniecki (USA): Africa
Mikateko E. Mbambo (South Africa): Return Afrika, Afrika Return
Elizabeth Upshur (USA): Haiku Series on Beloved
Karl W. Carter, Jr (USA): A SONG FOR LEROI JONES/AMIRI BARAKA

Part 9: Cultural Diversity, Transcontinental, Transactional, Meeting Spaces...

C. Liegh McInnis (USA): Black Man
Eniola Olaosebikan (Nigeria): Me
Barbara L. Howard (USA): Hope
Archie Swanson (South Africa): i’m off to Africa
Nancy Scott (USA): Lost Boy of Sudan in America
Ntensibe. Joseph (Uganda): IDENTITY LOST
Archie Swanson (South Africa): to the usa
Alyestal Hamilton (Canada):  Before you Go
Ntensibe. Joseph (Uganda): STITCHED APERTURE
Alyestal Hamilton (Canada):  For Kendrick
Roy Venketsamy (South Africa): MEMORIES
Charlie R. Braxton (USA): Of Water and Justice
Clarity R. Mapengo (Zimbabwe): Dear Africa
Diane Raptosh (USA): Dear Zygote
Clarity R. Mapengo (Zimbabwe): In these fissures
Diane Raptosh (USA): American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Hagerman, Idaho
Katisha Burt (USA): Cliché’s
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Zimbabwe): Black boy, White girl
Katisha Burt (USA): My mess, my message
LIKETSO RAMAFIKENG (Lesotho): WE ARE YOUNG
Sharon Hammond (South Africa): The Impossibility of Let it Go
Changming Yuan (Canada): Asgardia: Second Choice
Lind Grant-Oyeye (Canada): Brothers at a distance
Changming Yuan (Canada): Some Day

Part 10: Play

Allan Kolski Horwitz (South Africa): BOOK MARKS


Introduction

When I was born, up until I was a grown up, all I knew about my skin, what to think of that skin came from inside me. I had earlier-on heard of how white Zimbabweans and the white government of Ian Smith had ill-treated the natives during colonial yoke. I saw the war of independence in Zimbabwe as a little boy. We became free from the colonial subjugating yoke. At Nyatate Secondary School I was taught by the white expatriate teachers from the UK, Ireland, Canada and the USA. I have to frankly admit it, none of these made me feel like my skin was problematic. A lot of us native kids were friends with these expatriate teachers. We invited them to our rural homes; we would feed them our traditional foods. We were all very grateful for this connection. When I left for high school studies at Marist Nyanga, Zimbabwe’s best school, even as I write this introduction, I also had white teachers, and white brothers of the Marist order, and the relationship was great.
             And then there was a white farm manager at this school, who ran the farm part of this institution. He would call us all sorts of degrading names or terms like monkey, baboon, k-word, n-word etc… We ignored him. But the crux of the situation came sooner than we thought it would. He stayed on our side of this institution; Marist Vale- the high school side, with two brothers, Brother George and Brother Mulroney, and the other brothers like brother Legualt who was the head of the whole institution was at the other side, the Marist brothers side that had the secondary school grades. So when we would go to see these two brothers, George and Mulroney, for spiritual guidance and religious matters, we would sometimes come into contact with this farm manager.
             At one of these times, he told one of the students; when the student came to visit the brothers and found this farm manager eating his meal, that he doesn’t want to see blacks when eating as it makes him want to puke. When the student raised the issue to the other high school children at our night prayers and meeting, the whole student body decided to raise the issue with the headmaster. The headmaster said he will look into it, only to come back later to say he had raised it with the farm manager and the brothers, and he felt he had no way to solve it anymore. He said the farm manager was employed by the brothers not the school, that he had no control over him. He said the brothers were not keen on firing the manager as he was the best they ever had in terms of managing the farm. So the whole issue was hushed down. He continued with his racistic barbs at us.
             We just internalized it and ignored him as we had been told to do by our headmaster. What that statement, “I don’t want to see blacks whilst I am eating…” meant to me, how violated I was for the first time, what it made me realize how so wrong my skin was. I was made to think it’s not just my skin; it’s everything inside me that was wrong, that was inferior. Over the years, I learned to internalize that feeling, to forget it, to live with it, to accept it.

              I have heard stories of slavery. I have watched, only once so far, the movie 12 Years A Slave. I can’t re-watch it again. It’s horrible! I have heard stories of racism, stories of black killings like Rodney King and the resultant riots in California. I have heard of Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, and many other black leaders. I have heard of those who were killed, maimed because of their skin colours in America like Ana Mae, Rosa Parks... I have read about Harriet Tubman Railroads. I have heard the noise around black lives matter, after another killing, and the reverse all lives matter etc, and you realise you don’t understand it beyond the vibes you hear from the media, some totally biased and cooked up, so I felt I didn’t know enough. I have toyed around the idea of writing a book during black lives matter movement but still felt I didn’t know enough. I know in some countries racism has whittled down, has transmuted into other forms like bigotry, institutional racism etc…
             And as far back, I know the African continent has been riddled with poverty, tribal wars, killings, bad governance, and civil wars. I have explored that in other works but I felt there is a connection between all these African troubles with the broader issue of racism. So I decided to open the platform for writers to investigate all these issues, with the intention of mapping the way forward, finding areas to meet, transacting together. Here is the call I send out:

Africanization and Americanization: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, Volume 1
   
These two continents were under the colonial hammer that changed them completely. They went through the worst recorded cases of slave trade, human trafficking, sexual abuses, racial abuses, genocides…. They have several races, tribes and groups in each, which they also share between each other, that has been the site of tensions. As we find our feet in the 21st century a lot of us have become colour blind, have grown beyond sections, even states and this anthology is invaluable as it would try to dissect where we came from (pre-colonial, colonial, postcolonial, post racial etc), where we are now, where we want to head toward, especially the meeting points between or among the racial lines, sectional lines, states lines in trying to find spaces we have built or want to built among ourselves (in each of the continents, or between the countries in these continents, or between these two continents) as we move into the future.  I am looking for writing that delves or tackles these issues in any genre, any topic, any style.... Sent me your best essays, literary fictions, non-fictions, plays, poetry, mixed genres etc, in English language(s) (or English translations). Sent work in only one genre of your choice!

Poetry (3 poems per poet, preferably short poems but I am still open for long poems)
Prose, plays and mixed genres (I piece per writer, of not more than 5000 words)
Work must be sent in only one attached document, also include your contact details in this document, i.e., Postal address, Tel no, Email address and a bio note of not more than 100 words.

Please sent your entries to Tendai R. Mwanaka at mwanaka13@gmail.com
Closing date for entries is 30 June 2017
No free contributors’ copies, no royalties but contributors will benefit immensely through publicity into both continents and worldwide.
Please adhere to submission guidelines!!

I am grateful I received a lot of entries around the issues outlined in the introduction and the call for work above. I read everything and chose the best entries I thought tried to frankly investigate these issues. The anthology comprises 107 pieces from 43 poets, 4 essayists, 6 storytellers, 1 playwright. It is arranged into 10 topical groups that would give a reader a rough sense of what the writings in each group are about. We have work from distinguished professors, leading theorists, researchers, academic poets, essayists, street poets, academicians, journalists, musicians, and visual people. The collection is vibrant, discursive, penetrating, and genuinely searches for solutions. It is invaluable to literary theorists, poetry collectors, language experts, social scientists, political theorists, race theorist, development practioners, students, human scientist etc…