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)
7thSpeed
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
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
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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 6th 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.
