Notes on Contributors

PROUDFLESH: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness

ISSN: 1543-0855

Notes on Contributors

Opal Palmer Adisa, Ph.D. is a literary critic, poet, prose writer, storyteller and artist. Her published works are: Eros Muse, essays & poetry, Africa World Press, 2006; Caribbean Passion, poetry, PeepalTree Press, 2004; The Tongue Is a Drum (poetry/jazz CD with Devorah Major) 2002; Leaf-of-Life, poetry, Jukebox Press, 2000; It Begins With Tears, novel, Heinemann, 1997; Tamarind and Mango Women, poetry, 1992, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award WINNER; traveling women, 1989; Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories, 1986 and Pina, The Many-Eyed Fruit, children’s book, 1985; Fierce/Love(poetry/jazz recording with Devorah Major), 1992. Her story collection, Until Judgment Comes, PeepalTree Press November 2006.

Amina Brown was born and raised in Washington, DC, and is a graduate of Syracuse University. She is currently an educator in the DC public school system at the Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, Washington, DC.

Steve Champion a.k.a. Adisa Kamara has been living on Death Row in San Quentin for 25 years, and was mentor, friend, and co-author of Stanely “Tookie” Williams, who was executed by the State of California on December 13, 2005. He received honorary mention in the short fiction category in the 1995 Pen Prison Writing Contest, in 2004 he won first place in nonfiction for his essay, “His Spirit Lives On: George E. Marshall,” and he is coauthor of Afterlife, a Death Row anthology published in 2003. His poetry is featured in Voices From The Inside. An excerpt from One Day Deep was published in Maxim magazine (May 2005).

Lena Delgado de Torres is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at SUNY-Binghamton. Her areas of interest are the African Diaspora, the Americas, race and gender. Her dissertation will focus on mestizaje discourses in Latin America.

Aaron Kamugisha is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.

Jean Lowrie-Chin runs her own communications firm, PROCommunications, in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a columnist for the Jamaica Observer and involved in various philanthropic efforts. Her poetry has been published in the local media and performed locally and internationally. She is a Justice of the Peace and holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the University of the West Indies, Mona.”

Leketi Makalela is a Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of English Studies at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He received his PhD in English and Linguistics from Michigan State University (2005) and is the author of two literary texts, Me, Apartheid and South Africa (2003) and Rising from the Ashes (2005), as well as a number of articles in journals like World Englishes and Written Communication.

Angelique V. Nixon is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Florida, specializing in Postcolonial Studies and Caribbean and African Literatures. Her first scholarly publication appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures , and her poetry has been published in Julie Mango: International Online Journal of Creative Expressions. Several of her poems will be published in forthcoming collections, including the journal WomanSpeak and the anthology Erotique Caribbean.

Lissette Norman is the author of a children’s book, MY FEET ARE LAUGHING (FSG). Her work appears in anthologies: Moving Beyond Boundaries, Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. She has also been published in Mosaic Literary Magazine, African Voices, Dialogue, Long Shot and Drum Voices Revue. She won the Lee & Low Books’ “2003 New Voices Honor Award.”

Ewuare X. Osayande is a political activist, poet and author of more than eleven books including his latest works Black Anti-Ballistic Missives: Resisting War/Resisting Racism and Misogyny and the Emcee: Exposing the Exploitation of Black Women in Hip Hop. He is the co-founder of POWER, a grassroots initiative in Philadelphia that educates and empowers participants to fight and resist oppression.

Michael Roman is an artist and graduate of Syracuse University.

A. Slavenamegoeshere is a poet/activist from Mother Afrika via Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently focusing on the freedom and amnesty of political prisoners.

Greg Thomas is assistant professor of English at Syracuse University.

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-------. “Notes on Contributors,” PROUDFLESH: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness: Issue 4, 2006.