AFRICAN NATIONALIST POETRY AND PROSE is an interesting and enlightening testament to the ever-unfolding African experience in America. From ancient to modern times, the journey is chronicled in Poetic Praise and Prose eyewitness accounts that tell the story of a people on a Spiritual Journey. In the poetic praise of the ancient divinities, their bestowing spiritual and inspirational fortitude tenaciously strengthens Black resolve as true leaders of the people point to oppressors and their detrimental actions affecting African people. Such divine inspiration encourages creative strategies and courses of action meeting the ever-present and continuously unfolding challenges to the psychic, social and educational pathways of African peoples’ progress.While the Table of Contents is too numerous to mention (64 items), the specific opening with the Black National Anthem of Lift Every Voice and Sing;
Remembering the Ancestors; Sharpton’s Speak to the Rock - Oh Kanye;
NAN Convention 2018;
Asante at CEMOTAP 2018;
Million Man March - Substance and Significance;
Don’t Forget us Down Her Sonny Carson;
Ma'at Versus Isfet in Presidential Politics;
Spiritual Values Versus Secular Materialism; and Bob Law’s Tribute to Nelson Mandela; even Black Influence on the Supreme Court are simply slices of the prodigious pie that not simply tells the story but challenges both subjects and object of the African-American experience signaling spiritually guided creative divine inspiration at work. Imbuing that awesome divine power amidst suffering in courageously tenacious resistance to the oppressor’s machinations signals, we would rather fight than switch. As such then, African Nationalist Poetry and Prose is a profound praise of a number of giant standard-bearers who have stood up, cultivated and shaped the African-American journey across the global landscape but especially here in America. Thus, as our leaders worked their activist magic, standing as Stones of hope amidst mountains of despair, while creatively strategizing the way forward, we are reminded of Rev. Al Sharpton’s pronouncement, that We are the people, on the path of a spiritual journey, that god uses to send his message to the world. Dr. Fred Monderson is an African-American historian, Egyptologist and retired College Professor and New York City educator who taught American History and Government in the Middle and High Schools of New York City as well as African History at the City University of New York. A frequent visitor to Egypt and a prolific columnist in NYC’s Black Press, he can be contacted for speaking engagements (SuMon Publishers, PO Box 11216, Brooklyn, New York 11216) and book sales, (be surprised, Amazon.com. Monderson) as well as Trips to Egypt. Nostrand Travel (718) 756-5300. Next Trip July 27, 2018-August 10, [email protected]@sumonpublishers.comblackegyptbooks.com@[email protected]