This is installment nine, celebrating Dr. Jerry Agada’s labor of love, 500 Nigerian Poets. This Aboki Publishers volume, shipping from 43 New Bridge (Otukpo) Road in Makurdi, Benue State, sings with diversity. It remains a rich tapestry of creative vision.

Louis Ochuko Ehwerhemuepha was a student of physics at Delta State University, Abraka, at the time of publication. Born in 1986, he is from Ehwerhe-Agbaro in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Avenue 50 Studio in Highland park might rightly deserve the credit for having (and sharing) the only motion picture recording of Amy Uyematsu reading her poetry on the Internet. Many thanks! We have Amy reading a humorous (and amorous) piece about the great film actor Toshiro Mifune.

From wikipedia.com: “Amy Uyematsu (born 1947) is a Japanese-American poet. Growing up in Southern California, she was torn between her American self and Japanese self, a conflict which has deeply influenced her poetry. She is also a high school math teacher and many of her poems reflect elements of math and quote mathematic equations. She has published three poetry books: Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain, 30 Miles from J-town, and Stone Bow Prayer (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).”

Saturday Morning Live (SML) has been called “CKLN’s flagship news program.” Produced by Norman (Otis) Richmond, the show features author/activist Dr.Gerald Horne and Death Row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal weekly.

We present here the March 1, 2008 show, featuring Gerald Horne and Haroon Siddiqui. Topics include: Nigerian elections, the execution of American teens, Air India Flight 182, Olivia Chow of the NDP, the documentary film Africa Unite and more.

We here in the kinté space proudly present Daniel Pauly’s keynote speech at SeaWeb’s Seafood Summit 2010. Daniel Pauly is featured in Rupert Murray’s searing yet entertaining documentary, The End of the Line.

From Wikipedia.org: “Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well-known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He also served as Director of the Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008. …Pauly was born in Paris, France. He grew up, however, in Switzerland  in what was called a strange ‘Dickensian’ childhood where he was forced to stay as a live-in servant to a new family. Through the first 16 years of his life, Pauly lived an inward life as he was half-black in an all white town, finding solace in books/reading and model construction. At 16 he ran away and put himself through high school in Wuppertal, Germany after one year working with disabled people for a local church-run institution. His work led to a scholarship to the University of Kiel.”