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\"empty\"Gracita R. Arrindell<\/span><\/strong> holds an MA in political science from the Catholic University, Nijmegen. In 1988, she was appointed deputy island secretary of St. Martin (South) government, and in 1994, chaired the Constitutional Referendum Committee, which organized the first constitutional referendum held that year. In 1999, she was a Democratic Party candidate for the Island Council (IC) elections; and later political leader of the People\u0092s Progressive Alliance (PPA), which in its first electoral outing in 2003, won an IC seat. The founder of Peridot, a foundation against domestic violence in St. Martin\/ Saba\/ Statia, began her first IC term in 2003. Drs. Arrindell has chaired the Supervisory Board of Directors of the Princess Juliana International Airport and lectures regularly. Her published papers, including A study of new organization structures in large municipalities <\/em>(co-authored with M. Wolters, 1987), are found in Tilburg na 1945<\/em> (1986) and Ambtelijke reorganisatie<\/em> (1987). She was also a freelance columnist for theSt. Maarten Guardian<\/em> in the 1990s. When not dealing with constitutional issues, or debating in the IC, Drs. Arrindell loves to read, sail, and cook.<\/p>\n

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\"lookingback\"Looking Back to Move Forward<\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeeches from the Forum of\u00a0Former Prime Ministers of The Netherlands Antilles<\/span><\/span>
\nby Gracita Arrindell<\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, government studies, 96 pp., 5″ x 7.5″<\/p>\n

ISBN: 0-913441-71-6<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Looking Back to Move Forward i<\/em>s contemporary, avantage point from which to view political history in the Netherlands Antilles, as told by those who contributed to shaping that history while in the prime minister\u2019s seat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking Back to Move Forward <\/em>should be read by both Antilleans and the Dutch, who, too often, are unaware of Antillean arguments and sentiments.
\n– Dr. Bob Reinalda, Radboud University Nijmegen<\/em><\/p>\n

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[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Rhoda Arrindell”]<\/p>\n

\"\"Rhoda Arrindell<\/span><\/strong> is the head of the Language Division of the University of St. Martin and is the instructor of English Composition, Caribbean Literature, and Elements of Literature. In 2003, the current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Puerto Rico conducted the the Creative Writing Process class for the six-month Creative Writing Program of House of Nehesi Publishers. Arrindell holds a master’s degree in education administration (University of the Virgin Islands), a BA in linguistics (Syracuse University), and aPropaedeuse<\/em> (pre-law) Diploma (University of the Netherlands Antilles). From 1994 to 1998, Arrindell was the coordinator for Turning Point Foundation \u0097 responsible for its drug prevention educational programs. In the late 1990s, she was a copy editor for The Chronicle<\/em> and coordinated the Youth Summit for the island government in Great Bay (Philipsburg). Arrindell has presented scholarly papers on St. Martin literature and language at regional conferences. She is the founder of the United Volleyball Club Youth Program and is the mother of two.<\/p>\n

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\"Language,Language, Culture, and Identity in St. Martin<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span>by\u00a0Rhoda Arrindell<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, literature, 240 pp.<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0988825-22-2<\/span><\/p>\n

$20<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arrindell\u2019s research is a unique groundbreaking work.
\n\u2013\u00a0Dr. Alma Simounet, University of Puerto Rico<\/em><\/p>\n

\"brotherrich\"Brother Rich, Nana Sweetie<\/strong><\/span>
\nCreative Writing in St. Martin<\/span><\/span>
\nEdited by Rhoda Arrindell<\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, fiction, short stories; poetry, 72 pp.<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0-913441-84-8<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This collection is the result of a demanding writing course and is tangibly in line with the tradition of claiming one selves and of inviting others to listen.
\n– Dr. Aart G. Broek, author, literary historian<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Fabian Adekunle Badejo”]<\/p>\n

\"\"Fabian Adekunle Badejo<\/span><\/strong> was born in Nigeria in 1950. He attended the Government College Ibadan, Nigeria, and obtained a Master\u0092s degree in Hispanic Literature from the University of Navarra, Spain. The former Nigerian diplomat has made St. Martin his home since 1981. He is deeply involved with the cultural and social life of the island and its people, and has done extensive writing on politics, business and current affairs, and on the nation\u0092s artists and artistic life. During his term as director of the St. Maarten Council on the Arts in the early 1980s, he was the motor behind the landmark arts festival SMAFESTAC<\/em>. The author of Claude \u00ad A Portrait of Power, <\/em>first published in 1989, and Salted Tongues \u00ad Modern Literature in St.Martin (2<\/em>003) also wrote profiles for St. Martin Massive! A Snapshot on Popular Artists <\/em>(2000), and served as a consultant for GEBE Through The Years \u00ad Power To Serve<\/em> (2006). His paper, \u0093Negritude in the forgotten territories: Lasana Sekou and Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire,\u0094 was presented at the Senghor Colloquium (UWI-Cave Hill) in 2006. Badejo has produced concerts by kaisonian Mighty Dow and humorists\/storytellers Paul Keens Douglas and Fernando Clark. He has directed plays, monologues and film documentaries in St. Martin and abroad; and presented scholarly papers on the island\u0092s literature and publishing at regional conferences. Between 1989 and 2008, Badejo has been the managing director\/editor, publisher, news director, and editor respectively of The St. Maarten Guardian<\/em>, St. Martin Business Week<\/em>, and Today<\/em>newspapers and avsnewsonline.com<\/em>. For over twenty years, Badejo has produced and hosted the PJD2 radio talkshow Culture Time.<\/p>\n

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\"claude\"<\/a>Claude – A Portrait of Power<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Fabian Badejo<\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, biographical survey, political studies, 200 pp.<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0913441-38-1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody who can last for thirty-five years in government has my unstinted admiration,\u201d declared former US Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on the occasion of Dr. Claude Wathey\u2019s 35th anniversary in elected public office in St. Martin. According to Badejo, history will not only weigh what this Caribbean political strongman \u201chas done for the island, \u2026 nor how well he was liked or disliked\u201d but \u201cwhat he may have failed to do, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"SaltedSalted Tongues – Modern Literature in St. Martin
\nby Fabian Adekunle Badejo<\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, literature, essays, 72 pp., 5.25\u201d x 8\u201d
\nISBN: 0-913441-62-7<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In this book of three essays, wonderfully entitled Salted Tongues<\/em>, Fabian Adekunle Badejo has contributed significantly to filling a gap in Caribbean literature and widen the scope about the authors of modern writing and the role of language, publishing and literary criticism in St. Martin.
\n– Dr. Wim Rutgers, Literary historian, University of Aruba<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Amiri Baraka”]<\/p>\n

\"\"Amiri Baraka<\/span><\/strong> was born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, Baraka is a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. With influences on his work ranging from musical orishas such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Theophilus Monk, and Sun Ra to the Cuban Revolution, Malcolm X and world revolutionary movements, Baraka is renown as the founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s that became, though short-lived, the virtual blueprint for a new American theater aesthetics. The movement and his published and performance work, such as the signature study on African-American music, Blues People<\/em> (1963) and the play Dutchman<\/em> (1963) practically seeded \u0093the cultural corollary to black nationalism\u0094 of that revolutionary American milieu. Other titles range from Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka\/LeRoi Jones<\/em> (1979), to The Music<\/em> (1987), a fascinating collection of poems and monographs on Jazz and Blues authored by Baraka and his wife and poet Amina, and his boldly sortied essays, The Essence of Reparations<\/em> (2003). The Essence of Reparations<\/em> is Baraka\u0092s first published collection of essays in book form radically exploring what is sure to become a twenty-first century watershed movement of Black peoples to the interrelated issues of racism, national oppression, colonialism, neo-colonialism, self-determination and national and human liberation, which he has long been addressing creatively and critically. It has been said that Amiri Baraka is committed to social justice like no other American writer. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems<\/em> is Baraka\u0092s first collection of poems published in the Caribbean and includes the title poem that has headlined him in the media in ways rare to poets and authors. The recital of the poem \u0093that mattered\u0094 engaged the poet warrior in a battle royal with the very governor of New Jersey and with a legion of detractors demanding his resignation as the state\u0092s Poet Laureate because of Somebody Blew Up America\u0092s<\/em>provocatively poetic inquiry (in a few lines of the poem) about who knew beforehand about the New York City World Trade Center bombings in 2001. The poem\u0092s own detonation caused the author\u0092s photo and words to be splashed across the pages of New York\u0092s Amsterdam News<\/em> and the New York Times<\/em> and to be featured on CNN–to name a few US city, state and national and international media. Baraka lives in Newark with his wife and author Amina Baraka; they have five children and head up the word-music ensemble, Blue Ark: The Word Ship and co-direct Kimako\u0092s Blues People, the \u0093artspace\u0094 housed in their theater basement for some fifteen years. His awards and honors include an Obie, the American Academy of Arts & Letters award, the James Weldon Johnson Medal for contributions to the arts, Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts grants, Professor Emeritus at the State university of New York at Stony Brook, and the Poet Laureate of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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\"somebody\"Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nby Amiri Baraka<\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, Poetry\/Literature, 57 pp., 5″ x 7.5″<\/p>\n

ISBN: 0-913441-72-4<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4th printing by popular demand!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The publication of Amiri Baraka’s Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction.
\n– Kamau Brathwaite, CowPastor, Barbados;Comparative Lit., New York University<\/em><\/p>\n

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[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Marion Bethel”]<\/p>\n

\"\"Marion Bethel<\/span><\/strong> is a poet, short story writer, essayist and attorney from The Bahamas. A Cambridge University graduate, Bethel\u0092s writings have appeared in Callaloo<\/em>, The Massachusetts Review<\/em>, Lignum Vitae<\/em> and The Caribbean Writer<\/em>; and anthologized inJunction<\/em>, From The Shallow Seas<\/em>, and Moving Beyond Boundaries<\/em>. The James Michener and Harvard University fellow has been a guest writer at the Miami International Book Fair, the Caribbean Women Writers Series, Duke University, the International Poetry Festival of Medellin, the International Writers Workshop, Hong Kong, the St. Martin Book Fair and the International Poetry Festival of Granada. Bethel is a winner of the prestigious Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas Prize for Guanahan\u00ed, Mi Amor y otros poemas, w<\/em>hich has been published in Spanish by Casa.<\/p>\n

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\"guanahani\"Guanahani, My Love<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>
\nby Marion Bethel<\/span><\/p>\n

Paperback, poetry, literature 72 pp.<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0-913441-96-1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is interesting about these poems is that they \u2026 become entries into Caribbean magical realism.
\n\u2013 Kamau Brathwaite, New York University<\/em><\/p>\n

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