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Posted: Friday June 10th, 2005 19:01 |
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| Has anyone read the book "Kinship" by the late Phillippe Wamba? What are your thoughts on it?
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Posted: Monday June 20th, 2005 12:52 |
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I read that book someyears bacck and fortunate to meet him personally before he died.tHOUGH i DIDNT ADMIRE HIS DAD'S POLITICS BUT i FOUND HIS African american mom A VERY INTERLECTUAL BLACK WOMAN WHEN SHE WAS STILL AT uNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
good book
I strongly recomend it
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Posted: Monday June 20th, 2005 19:57 |
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COLTRANE wrote: I read that book someyears bacck and fortunate to meet him personally before he died.tHOUGH i DIDNT ADMIRE HIS DAD'S POLITICS BUT i FOUND HIS African american mom A VERY INTERLECTUAL BLACK WOMAN WHEN SHE WAS STILL AT uNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
good book
I strongly recomend it
 I read the book as well and thought it was great. My only problem is that I feel he didn't give a true African-American perspective on our intracultural issues. My hubby met his mother the last time he went to Dar and speaks highly of her as well.
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Posted: Tuesday June 21st, 2005 16:48 |
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I think it was fair and I think him going to Congo was sort of like a trip to find his roots and he got really hooked up with them in other words he embrased them thats how I felt but having met him he was so ambitious on what he wanted to do to help buld the bridge that his Congolese and American mom did years ago.
Now His Father though he is of my political block but I found him too radical and state department found him abit too much for them to be given the same amount of help that other rebel groups were getting at that time..in other words professor Wamba Dia Wamba was your typical University of Dar es salaam who was waaaaaay too jucfh of a communist and and too radical for his funders and he wasnt much of a apealing to the young guards
As I said earlier Phillipies mother is the type of mom happends to be of a well rounded ,goodlooking,intelligent,knowledgabe African American woman that you would talk to about every single thing from underground railroad to how to empower a black woman
She also has that bug that has bitten anyone who went to University of Dar eslaaam:Radicalism...be it Museveni,Chisano,Garang,WALTER RODNEY, abdelrahman Babu and many more
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Posted: Wednesday June 22nd, 2005 19:35 |
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| Coltrane, what part of TZ are you from?
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Posted: Friday July 15th, 2005 01:46 |
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Hi Coltrane and MamaZora,
I 'third' the strong book recommendation and also 'third' the comments about Elaine Wamba.
I read the book so long ago that I cannot remember many specifics. To comment briefly on Philippe's not giving a true Af-Am perspective, I think he would agree with that, at least to a degree. I do remember a bit of how he described in the book feelings similar during his time at Harvard.
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