by Tiki Black | Nov 15, 2018 | Our Heroes, Life and Culture
I write a lot about and mainly for the living. I avoid the safe cushions of posthumous eulogies that protect me from future disappointments that are most common to living perpetrators. Plus, the living and unsung heroes need to be reminded of the impossible battles...
by Tiki Black | May 11, 2016 | Artists and Artisans, Arts
Glad Amog Lemra is more than an artist, if that is ever possible. He is an artisan and a self-proclaimed one at that and rightfully too. He crafts the words around his tongue, his plume, the reel, so as never to compromise his spirit, his integrity. The emotional...
by Tiki Black | Feb 15, 2014 | Music Artists, Our Heroes
Pierre Akendengué is a singer-songwriter from Gabon who mixes his African upbringing and his European further education to find and never part from his true self. He is one of the great masters of contemporary African music and has been for now about 4 decades. He was...
by Tiki Black | Jan 8, 2010 | Life and Culture, Our Heroes
Franck Matamba: to be or not to be The burden of expectations takes its toll at our most vulnerable (most likely around puberty, so called middle-life ‘crisis’, etc). At that point, a person decides either to fight every battle to claim the right to live...
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