Description
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Caribbean Studies. "Many of its best moments are simple stories about people. An old woman sits in the wreckage of her home,... There is searching, sweating and wading through water. Corned beef is eaten and children run after chickens. People pray and sing and wait. People fight for their homes, and their 'feet beat the ground to dust.' These are poems about survival, life, and the daily work of turning an often troubled island into a homeland of justice and freedom."—Mark Yokoyama (from the Introduction)
"A frank, passionate description of a life in the Caribbean impacted by hurricanes, power outages, health crises, and pandemic. SOS: SEASON OF STORMS also highlights the region's history of racial injustice and provides insight into St. Martin protests. Badejo's voice, intimate and tinged with humor."—Jeannine Hall Gailey
"For all the existential toxicity exposed in his poetry, Badejo still holds the sun between his fingers without being burnt. I am inspired by the author's rebellious but tender attentiveness to the plight of tortured and twisted humanity."—Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo
Author Bio
Fabian Adekunle Badejo is a literary critic and author of SOS: SEASON OF STORMS (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2021), FANTASIES: LOVE-MAKING POEMS (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2018), Claude—A Portrait of Power, Salted Tongues—Modern Literature in St.Martin, and MAROON LIVES (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2013). His literary essay "Negritude in the Forgotten Territories: Lasana Mwanza Sekou and Aimé Césaire" appears in Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance. Badejo coordinated the 1982 groundbreaking St. Maarten Festival of Culture (SMAFESTAC). He has produced concerts by kaisonian Mighty Dow and humorists Paul Keens Douglas and Fernando Clark. Badejo has directed plays and film documentaries and presented scholarly papers on St. Martin's literature and culture at regional and international conferences. Between 1989 and 2005, the former Nigerian diplomat was managing director/editor, publisher, and news director respectively of The St. Maarten Guardian, St. Martin Business Week, and Today Newspaper. For over 30 years, Badejo has produced and hosted PJD2's Culture Time, the longest running weekly cultural magazine on radio in St. Martin.
Author City: ST. MARTIN NAN