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Penny Hole Forever Odimumba Kwamdela, J.
Ashton Brathwaite
Journey Through Jailhouse Jeopardy: A Good New York City Teacher Ends
Up Down in Bad Rikers Island Jail
Odimumba Kwamdela
Format:
Paperback Pub. Date: April 2004 0941266311 The latest book by recently
retired New York City high school teacher Kwamdela is a no-holds-barred
account of the reasons for NYC schools spiraling downward out of control.
Especially captivating is his lengthy account of his years teaching
adolescent inmates-students in infamous, volatile Rikers Island Jail. 285
pages so tough you’ll often gasp; yet some humor that will make you laugh.
$15
Niggers This Is Canada
Odimumba Kwamdela, J. Ashton Brathwaite
Reprint of
the 1972 true-to-life novel, given labels such as “controversial”,
“frightening,” and “underground classic,” but there is much humor in the
story.Format: Paperback Rev Pub. Date: January 1985 0941266028
Soul Surviving up in Canada
Odimumba Kwamdela, J. Ashton Brathwaite
Format: Paperback Pub. Date: November 1999 0941266141 Though
an interesting book unto itself and written several years later while
living in the USA, the author refers to it as “the final chapters” to the
so-called “controversial” Niggers this is Canada. $10.
Blood-Boiling Black Blues
Format:
Paperback REVISED Pub. Date: July 1983
Grassroots Philosopher
The Small Black Book of Big Thoughts
The Small
Black Book of Big Thoughts: The author presents his many short Afrocentric
philosophies in such a manner that leaves no doubt that he indeed believes
he is the Prophet with the answers to the problems faced by people of
African ancestry. $6.
Black British Soldier:
Reprint of
the 1969 first book of its kind…Civil war, racial prejudice, alcohol,
sex, barrack room brawls, working-class soldiers under all upper-class,
snobbish officers. $10.
Raining Ruins, Roses &
Rockstones
Four
novellas about Caribbean immigrants in the United States and Canada that
will make you laugh one minute and cry the next. $10.
Behold! The Grassroots Philosopher-Poet (audio, with
soulful rhythms): A powerful poetic experience from the sociopolitical
conscious 1970s. CD contains 65 minutes of:
1) The
Righteous Blackman, 2) Mother Earth/Blackwoman, 3) Burn Babylon, 4) Great
Lumumba of Congo, 5) Bajan in the Big Countries, 6) African Roots People,
7) Back to Penny Hole Forever, 8) Ham’s Blues, 9) Death and Birth of The
Prophet M.L.King, 10) Return of Sodom and Gomorrah, 11)The Red, the Black
and the Green, 12) The Poor Revolution, 13) Return to Barbados, 14)
Brixton on Fire, 15) Jewel in the Mud, 16) Shadow of Death, 17) Extinction
of A Root. $12.
Recovery: The Lost and Found Poetry of Alkamal
Soul