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Earth changes. Hearts cry for Haiti

Apart from New Year resolutions that lead to dramatic life changes, year end can spell beyond belief disaster, as is the case with Haiti, 2010, and the Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 that became the terrible Tsunami. The one thing to count on is hope. Hope manifests clearly amid this punch of doom.

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Don’t worry much about Santa Claus

And so the year comes to an end just like that, in spite of the warning from the calendar. And life once more means packing bags, catching a bus, a train, a plane, shuffling through doors with signs on the opposite end: anything to declare. Yes. my self.

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Amiri Baraka at 75 still hitting the gong strong

Let me begin with a confession: I love memorials. I’d never miss a memorial service, whether the person being celebrated, honored, and remembered is known to me or is a stranger. I just like being in the audience, bearing witness to the outpourings of unforgotten love, heroic deeds and all the extraordinary larger than life […]

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A word about my new customized theme

I’ve been searching for a web theme that expresses stuff am passionate about. My previous theme: fallen leaves was a very good one because of the various shades and richness the leaves projected, not to say the philosophical underpinnings beneath fallen leaves, the connection to the human condition, our nature as beings who fall and […]

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What shall we do now that our dear Caster Semenya is confirmed male and female?

The case of Caster Semenya has reached epic proportions. It’s been evolving and much as we’ve been coming to conclusions before the comprehensive sex tests have been released, there is a new twist that only Semenya, her parents, and the South African government can answer.

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She who can, is, and always will…

Fall is here and it makes me excited because I am watching the seasons like my stories depend on them. In a big way they actually do. Apart from the relocation, Dakar to Syracuse, I must say the best news item of the just ended month that tickled me most is about Caster Semenya. Some […]

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My days in the night

I am making two weeks in Syracuse, and save the first two days, I haven’t slept since. Not joking. I get to sleep and my mind, which a friend of mine says is in overdrive, keeps working nighttime, throughout the day, nighttime, until it is morning of the next day and time to get out […]

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Leaving, living, and loving.

It’s always a shame to catch myself in a state of procrastination, where a million blog ideas are coming to me and I figure I have no time to sieve through and focus on one, just one piece of item for a story. I admit sometimes I am the queen of excuses. Implementation—oh, that word […]

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Rain in Dakar and the Pride of Barbados

It rained today. It also rained the previous night. I grew to love the equator zone where it rains and shines any moment any day. Here in Dakar rain is a mighty blessing, especially, if it arrives in the month of June. I got very excited when I looked into the sky today and realized […]

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Launch info

Mildred Barya will be reading poems from the groundbreaking collection, Give Me Room to Move My Feet, on Friday 26 June 2009, from 18.00 pm at Kadjinol Station, rue Albert Sarraut Angle Salva, near the Galerie Nationale, in front of Canal Horizons. For bookings and additional information, please contact publish@amalion.sn or Kadjinol info line: 76 […]

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