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• Nonfiction > Interviews
  Path To My African Eyes: An Interview with Ermila Moodley

  By Sojourner A., Philadelphia, PA

  Q. How closely is Path To My African Eyes based on your own personal experiences? A. In Path to my African Eyes the narrator, Thandi Sobukwe, is a product of educated parents in a newly democratic country, whereas I grew up in poverty in apartheid South Africa. So my life has been quite differe...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  An Ode to Liberty

  By Sojourner A., Philadelphia, PA

  I. I have a brother and he is brown My mother tells her son that the world is his oyster Lay claim to all around you, she begs And he smiles and believes in dreams that can’t be scaled down. As he gets older, like now, like 10 years old My brother, who is brown, tall like the Sahara Desert...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  We’re Cool Like That

  By Sojourner A., Philadelphia, PA

  I'm cool like that, I'm proud like that, and I'm African like that. Not a bloated stomach, not a face encircled by flies, not a beggar's hand I am part of a billion people with a million dances and thousands of tongues to tell not only stories of tears, to play not only in the mourning band I ...