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An Oriki for Sekou Sundiata
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Black Renaissance
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January 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Institute of African American Affairs Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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FROM OUR FIRST MEETING UNTIL HIS DEATH, exchanges between Sekou and I were never planned and occurred at the juncture of poet and stage, of poet and poet, and most recently, of our respective blocks. A few notes from my literary scrapbook follow.
It was the 1980$. I had just started working as a social worker by day and an usher at Joe Papp's Public Theater by night. The specter of HIV was just beginning to mark and kill my friends and acquaintances, and would ultimately empty a third of my phone book.
In the course of that year, I joined the Harlem Writers Guild and the band of rebels who would later morph into New Renaissance Writers Guild. I was already active at the John O. Killens ...
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