A Kenyan spy must choose between duty and the survival of his people. Dispatched to Earth to infiltrate the ruthless Kenyan Punks, he must balance his allegiance to his government with the love for his people stranded on Earth. As he uncovers the government's sinister plan to leave his people behind after exploiting Earth's dwindling resources, he faces a moral dilemma: should he follow orders and condemn the Kenyans on earth to certain death, or defy his superiors and risk everything to save his own people?
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, PUNKS weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms--form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire, oppression, AIDS, and grief through sorrowful songs that "we sing as hard as we live." At home in countless poetic forms, PUNKS reconfirms John Keene as one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry. "John Keene's PUNKS is utterly brilliant. The range, vision, depth and humanity he brings to the page are as galactic as Banneker's astral wanderings, as crisp as the chordal cutting of a searching horn, as courageous and small as a nose wide open. Keene's masterfully inventive inquiry of self and history is queered, Blackened, and joyously thick with multitudes of voice and valence. Amen to this exploration!"--Tyehimba Jess Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies.
Kenya Martinique is young, beautiful and rich and knows the streets well, but nothing about love, men or sex. When her sister is killed she turns to the streets to find the person responsible and meets the handsome detective, Nicholas Brown, who is looking for the same person. Their paths cross when he comes to tell her, her sister was murdered, but he knows more than he tells and he has a secret. As the investigation progresses Kenya finds things that confuse her and all point to Nicholas, whom she finds she is beginning to have feelings for. In the end Kenya finds the killer and Nicholas shows up in the nick of time to save her and tells her his secret.
Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic is an insult or an embarrassment. Being authentic suggests that a given behaviour or performance is reflective of a ‘trueness’ or ‘genuineness’ to one’s identity. From a social science perspective there is sometimes scepticism expressed about the historical faithfulness of purported behaviours - such as when something is referred to as an ‘invented’ tradition. However, what can be overlooked in such criticisms is an array of sociological and existential dynamics that are at play when authenticity is striven for. Likewise able to be overlooked is where the location of that authenticity is ostensibly founded; sometimes the trueness of the behaviour is located in local traditions that reach back into time immemorial, sometimes in a universal human and shared sameness, and sometimes with regard to a global phenomenon. Punks, Monks and Politics explores the idea of authenticity as enacted in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. The collective contributions reveal the sometimes contradictory ways in which the dynamics of authenticity – its pursuit, its deployment, its politics – play out in very different contexts. Whether authenticity inheres in the local or the global, amongst the majority or within a subculture, on the outside of or within people, or in the past or the present, authenticity is nevertheless valued.
From cafes in Madagascar to quiet, dusty towns in the middle of the Kalahari, Edward seeks to understand exactly how the musicians live and struggle-- while experiencing the passion of rock and metal in Africa for himself"--Back cover
As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain’s first female music writers in a book that reads like a vivid documentary of a genre defined by dismantling boundaries. A discussion of the Patti Smith song “Free Money,” for example, opens with Goldman on a shopping spree with Smith. Tamar-Kali, whose name pays homage to a Hindu goddess, describes the influence of her Gullah ancestors on her music, while the late Poly Styrene's daughter reflects on why her Somali-Scots-Irish mother wrote the 1978 punk anthem “Identity,” with the refrain “Identity is the crisis you can't see.” Other strands feature artists from farther afield (including in Colombia and Indonesia) and genre-busting revolutionaries such as Grace Jones, who wasn't exclusively punk but clearly influenced the movement while absorbing its liberating audacity. From punk's Euro origins to its international reach, this is an exhilarating world tour.
The Infinito 2017 17 Project consist of 17 albums written exclusively by Marcellous Lovelace in the fashion of creative output and the mastering of completion. The outcome is a book of rhymes from all the projects plus lyrics and styles from Infinito 2017. If you read the multiple stories, rhymes and lyric styles from Marcellous Lovelace you will feel the vibration of creativity that is endless. #happensexist www.marcellouslovelace.com www.infinito2017.com
Wayne was brought into this world as what some would call a “lost cause.” Both his parents were into all type of shit in the streets. When Ali caught Kenya with some dope boys from Florida, he ended up killing one and robbing the other. After he came up on 3 kilos of uncut heroin, he stepped his game up and exposed his only son who was 9 years old to everything that went on in the streets. After Ali committed the murder and Kenya got her son, she gets Wayne, but she robbed Ali’s girlfriend for over 700,000 thousand and leaving Ali to think his son was kidnapped. After a spree of murders, most of the players were killed, but Wayne was left with the spirit of his daddy to get revenge on anybody who was involved. By age 21, Wayne put together a clique of young shooters, whose ambition was to stop at nothing! To them there were no rules, and as far as respect, that had to be earned. Wayne took his click to a level that was not seen in kids their age, they were all filled with grimy attitudes and murderous plots, but Wayne beat the odds and played at the top of his game!
Patrick was a wayward child who could not speak until he was four and ran away from boarding school. A disappointment to his parents and the despair of his teachers, he lacked the normal abilities that young people acquire as they grow up. After being sacked from his job, Patrick decided to try his fortunes overseas. A timid traveller and always obedient to authority, how did he come to the attention of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Los Angeles Police Departments South Africa's Bureau of State Security and Rhodesia's BSA Police? And why did he come to be in police custody in Tanganyika and the first white man deported by newly independent Kenya? Back in England, Patrick's CV was no conducive to gainful employment of the kind enjoyed by his peers: encyclopaedia salesman, nomadic field-hand, lavatory cleaner, bear-chaser, baggage-smasher, waitress (yes!), factory labourer, scullion. The BBC offered sanctuary as a clerk, with few prospects of advancement. After five years of entertaining if ill-paid work in an office full of colourful misfits, Patrick fell into the embrace of the Civil Service. A trainee again at the age of 30, could things improve? Things could, but not without a catalogue of mishaps on the way. Patrick's propensity for bright ideas tended towards disaster, including a national crisis when he set in train the events that culminated in Black Wednesday.
The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
