Oakland reading, Sept 12th

at the downtown Oakopolis Gallery, a short walk from 19th Street Oakland BART. Wonderful art and creativity space, co-founded by my hoop mentor, Jan Camp.

I'll do a staged reading of excerpts from Bwagamoyo: The Father (Part II of Migritude), and open up the floor for questions and feedback afterwards.

3 - 5pm. $5- $20 sliding scale, no one turned away.

I would love to have people there who saw Migritude I. The focus of this event is words and content, rather than performance. I'm both curious and nervous about how it will go down. And what will speak to a Bay Area audience, compared to the ones in Sweden and Kenya.

Nationalism is ahistoric

Memorable pithy truth from Nayan Chanda, of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

We riffed on that, and much else, in the golden twilight of a Swedish midsummer evening at the Tällberg Forum in June.

I love the way he breaks down South-North migration as an inevitable consequence of "globalization". Check out his essay: Globalization Comes Full Circle. And the wonderfully lucid powerpoint presentation of his book, Bound Together.

Just one of the many illuminating factoids therein:

there are more Malawian doctors practicing medicine in the northern English city of Manchester than in all of Malawi, with its population of 13 million.