Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Monifa A. Love Asante
Monifa A. Love Asante is an award-winning writer and educator. She is the author of five books. She currently teaches at Bowie State University where she coordinates the creative writing and graduate studies programs. She is working on "After the Rain: Waking Walking Swimming Flying," a collection of new and selected writing. She lives in Maryland with her husband.
Olivier Barlet
Olivier Barlet is a member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinema, a delegate for Africa at the Cannes Festival Critics Week, and a film correspondent for Africultures, Continental, and Afriscope. He runs the Images plurielles collection on cinema for L'Harmattan Publishing House. His book Les Cinémas d'Afrique noire: le regard en question has been translated into English as African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze (London: Zed Books), as well as into German and Italian. From 1997 to 2004, Barlet was chief editor of Africultures, an African cultural journal that features a paper edition and a website (www.africultures.com). He has also published articles in numerous journals and is a member of the African Federation of film critics (www.africine.org).
Tekletsadik Belachew
Tekletsadik Belachew (Tekle) is a graduate student in Theological Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. He defended his thesis, "Representation of the Self: Theological Reflections on Haile Gerima's Cinematic Storytelling," in fall 2012.
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Poet and vocalist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna Books). Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Jubilat, Fence, LA Review, Palabra, and Black Renaissance Noir among others. She has performed at the Kitchen, Exit Art, Recess Activities Inc., the Whitney, and MoMA and has staged events at El Museo del Barrio, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Dixon Place, and BAM Café. A recipient of several awards from New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and [End Page 179] The Eben Demarest Trust, LaTasha, along with Greg Tate, is the cofounder of yoYO/SO4 Magazine.
Krista Franklin
Krista Franklin is a poet, visual artist, and performer from Dayton, Ohio, now living in Chicago. Her poetry and collages have been published in journals such as Globetrotter Magazine, Vinyl 5, The New Sound, Copper Nickel, RATTLE, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Clam, and Callaloo and in the anthologies Encyclopedia Vol. II, F-K and Gathering Ground. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of award-winning books and exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her chapbook Study of Love & Black Body was published in 2012 by Willow Books. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow and a cofounder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers, visual and performance artists, musicians, and scholars. Her website is www.kristafranklin.com.
Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima (born in Gondar, Ethiopia, March 4, 1946) is a Pan-Africanist Ethiopian film director, screenwriter, writer, producer, and intellectual who resides in Washington, DC. He has been a professor of film at Howard University since 1975. His best-known film is the acclaimed Sankofa (1993). His earliest films were made as a UCLA graduate student and his most recent, eleventh film release is Teza (2008). He is a documentarian as well as a cinematic dramatist, a film distributor, and a filmmaking intellectual. His base of operations is Sankofa Films, Videos & Books—a store, thriving community center, and café located at 2714 George Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC.
Randall Horton
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, and, most recently, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and The Symphony: The House That Etheridge Built. Randall is assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven. An excerpt from his memoir titled Roxbury is published by Kattywompus Press. Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press will publish his latest poetry collection, Pitch Dark Anarchy, in spring 2013.
Nubia Kai
Nubia Kai (a.k.a. Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam) received her PhD in African literature and film from Howard University. A poet, playwright, storyteller, and...
