{"id":555,"date":"2010-05-20T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=555"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T15:12:03","slug":"semsamar-contributes-to-st-martin-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2010\/05\/20\/semsamar-contributes-to-st-martin-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"SEMSAMAR contributes to St. Martin Book Fair."},"content":{"rendered":"

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PORT-LOUIS, Guadeloupe (May 20, 2010) <\/span><\/strong>\u2014 The SEMSAMAR development agency made a financial contribution here on Thursday to the 8th annual St. Martin Book Fair (June 3 – 5, 2010), said book fair coordinator Shujah Reiph. The directrice of SEMSAMAR, Marie Paul Beneluse (L) made the presentation to Reiph (R), who had traveled to the Guadeloupe commune to receive the cheque from Beneluse. \u201cSEMSAMAR is about building the future and we thought that it is more than right for us to support an event such as the St. Martin Book Fair,\u201d said Beneluse to Reiph, a leading St. Martin cultural activist and organizer. The opening ceremony of the three-day book fair takes place at the University of St. Martin, Philipsburg, on Thursday, June 3, at 8pm. The closing ceremony and main book launch will take place at the Public Library, Marigot, on Saturday, June 5, at 8pm, said Reiph. The Conscious Lyrics Foundation and House of Nehesi Nehesi Publishers organize the St. Martin Book Fair in collaboration with the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau, the Collectivity of St. Martin, and the University of St. Martin. (CLF photo)<\/p>\n

CONFRIMED AUTHORS & WORKSHOP EXPERTS<\/span><\/strong>
\n8th Annual St. Martin Book Fair
\nThursday, June 3 \u2013 Saturday, June 5, 2010
\nUniversity of St. Martin, Philipsburg \u2022 Public Library, Marigot
\nSt. Martin, Caribbean<\/span><\/p>\n

Fabian Adekunle Badejo<\/span><\/strong>, is the author of Claude – A Portrait of Power<\/span> (1989, 2007) and Salted Tongues \u2013 Modern Literature in St.Martin<\/span>(2003). He wrote profiles for St. Martin Massive! A Snapshot on Popular Artists<\/span> (2000) and served as a consultant on the book GEBE Through The Years \u2013 Power To Serve <\/span>(2006). His paper, \u201cNegritude in the Forgotten Territories: Lasana Mwanza Sekou and Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire<\/span>\u201d was published in Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance.<\/span> Eds. Isabelle Constant and Kahiudi C. Mabana (2009). 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\u2019s literature at regional conferences. In 2003, Badejo conducted the \u201cNew Forms of Writing\u201d course for HNP\u2019s Creative Writing Program. Between 1989 and 2005, the former Nigerian diplomat was managing director\/editor, publisher and news director respectively of The St. Maarten Guardian<\/span>, St. Martin Business Week<\/span>, andToday newspapers<\/span>. Badejo is the producer\/host of the long-running radio magazine Culture Time<\/span> (PJD-2).<\/p>\n

Christian Campbel<\/span>l<\/strong> is a Rhodes Scholar who received his Ph.D. at Duke University. This writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage is a professor at the University of Toronto. His poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies such as Callaloo<\/span>, Indiana Review<\/span>, Wasafiri<\/span>, Poetry London<\/span>, PN Review<\/span>, New Caribbean Poetry<\/span> and New Poetries IV<\/span>. Campbell\u2019s work has been translated into Spanish in the anthology Poetas del Caribe Ingles. He has received grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, the Arvon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center and the University of Birmingham. Running the Dusk<\/span>, named a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize by Sonia Sanchez, was his first book.<\/p>\n

Rapha\u00ebl Confiant<\/span><\/strong> was born in 1951 in Martinique. Confiant studied political science and english at the University of Provence. The lecturer at the University of the French Antilles and Guiana, is the author of numerous academic essays and novels in Creole and French. He co-created the Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9<\/span>, where like many of his words, he explores the memory, culture, language and history of his country. The essays and novels of Confiant include Les T\u00e9n\u00e8bres ext\u00e9rieures<\/span>, 2008, Kod Yanm<\/span>, 1986, Eloge de la Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9<\/span>, 1989, Eau de Caf\u00e9<\/span>, 1991, Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, une travers\u00e9e paradoxale du si\u00e8cle<\/span>, 1993, Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria<\/span>, 1997, Nu\u00e9e Ardente<\/span>, 2002, La Panse du Chacal<\/span>, 2004, and N\u00e8gre Marron<\/span>, 2006.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Coope<\/span>r<\/strong> is a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she teaches Caribbean, African, and African-American literature. She is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the \u201cVulgar\u201d Body of Jamaica Popular Culture <\/span>(1993) and Sound Clash: Jamaica Dancehall Culture at Large<\/span>. Dr. Cooper is the co-editor, with Alison Donnell, of the 2004 special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies<\/span> on Jamaica Popular Culture; and co-editor with Eleanor Wint of Bob Marley: The Man & His Music<\/span> (2003). Dr. Cooper is the founder and director of the Global Reggae Center in Jamaica.<\/p>\n

G\u00e9rard M. Hunt<\/span><\/strong> is a retired high school teacher. He attended public school in his native St. Martin. Hunt continued his education in the USA and Canada. He taught French at Western Laval High School and at Chomedey Polyvalent High School in Laval, Quebec. Hunt also taught at Macdonald High School in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, and in St. Martin at Milton Peters College, the Lyc\u00e9e des Iles du Nord, and the Coll\u00e8ge du Mont des Accords. He is the author of the forthcoming Desperate in Saint Martin \u2013 Notes on Guillaume Coppier<\/span>.<\/p>\n

G\u00e9rard Jadotte<\/span> <\/strong>studied law and political science in Ha\u00efti and Canada. He is a university professor and director of the publishing houseEditions de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Etat d\u2019Ha\u00efti<\/span>. After working as a consultant for various national and international institutions, he occupied the post of general secretary of the University of Notre Dame of Ha\u00efti (1999-2005). Prof. Jadotte was also the coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Commission that prepared the document for the National Strategy for Growth and the Reduction of Poverty. In collaboration with Cary Hector, he published Ha\u00efti et l\u2019apr\u00e8s Duvalier: Continuit\u00e9s et Ruptures<\/span> (1991) and Le Carnaval de La R\u00e9volution de Duvalier \u00e0 Aristide<\/span>(2005).<\/p>\n

Charles-henri Maricel-Baltus<\/span><\/strong> is a Guadeloupian poet and novelist. His first collection of poetry, Paradis terrestre<\/span> (1992) was followed in 2006 by Face \u00e0 la mort<\/span>, the first of a trilogy, and La vies en face<\/span> in 2009. His work explores the disfiguration of paradise from plagues, wars, pollution and famine, and his existential quest, cultural tolerance, which he hopes illustrate his life\u2019s philosophy. He works with municipal libraries, primary schools and neighborhood associations to promote reading and writing. Maricel-Baltus organizes poetry competitions that build \u201cintergenerational relationships between poets and aspiring poets.\u201d The avid traveler\u2019s 1980 trip to Haiti left an indelible mark on his life as has the Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy.<\/p>\n

M. NourbeSe Philip<\/span><\/strong>, a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright, lives in Toronto. She has published five books of poetry, one novel and three collections of essays. Among her best-known published works are She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, and Harriet\u2019s Daughter<\/span>. Her most recent work, Zong!<\/span>, is a book-length poem which engages with ideas of the law, history and memory as they relate to the transAtlantic slave trade. A Fellow of the McDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, Philip was awarded the Pushcart Prize (USA), the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba) for poetry, the Lawrence Foundation Prize (USA) for short fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship (USA). In 1995 the Arts Foundation of Toronto recognized her work with its Writing and Publishing Award. In 1999, her play \u201cCoups and Calypsos\u201d was a Dora Award (Toronto) finalist.<\/p>\n

Angelo Rombley<\/span><\/strong>, founder, Big Eye Opener Studios, Inc., award-winning senior graphics designer and digital artist. Rombley\u2019s digital art has been exhibited at the Artists\u2019 Corner, St. Martin and the New York State Museum, USA. He has worked on a number of DVDs for Woodslave Films, including GEBE Through The Years \u2013 45th Anniversary<\/span> (2005). The graduate of the International Fine Arts College mixed and produced the music for the audio CD The Salt Reaper \u2013 selected poems from the flats<\/span> (2009).<\/p>\n

Lasana M. Sekou<\/span><\/strong>, author of 13 books of poetry, monologues, and short stories. He is an advocate for the independence of St. Martin, which is a colony of the Netherlands and France. The St. Martin writer is considered one of the prolific Caribbean poets of his generation. Reviewers have compared Sekou\u2019s poetry to the works of a range of poetic giants, from Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire to Oswald Mtshali, from Kamau Brathwaite to Dylan Thomas, from e.e. cummings to Linton Kwesi Johnson but, writes Fergus in Love Labor Liberation in Sekou<\/span>, \u201cthe voice that reaches us is sui generis<\/span>, unique and Sekouesque.\u201d His critically acclaimed The Salt Reaper \u2013 poems from the flats<\/span> along with 37 Poems<\/span>, Nativity<\/span>, Brotherhood of the Spurs<\/span> and Love Songs Make You Cry<\/span> have been required reading at Caribbean, US and Canadian universities. Sekou has set his poetry to music in The Salt Reaper \u2013 selected poems from the flats<\/span> (audio CD). He has presented papers and recited his poetry at cultural and literary conferences and festivals in the Caribbean, North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. The poetry of the award-winning author has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, French, German, Turkish and Chinese. Nativity\/Nativit\u00e9\/Natividad<\/span> is Sekou\u2019s first trilingual book.<\/p>\n

Verene A. Shepherd <\/span><\/strong>is a professor of social history at the University of the West Indies, Mona and a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. In 2010, she was appointed to the UN Human Rights Council\u2019s Working Group of Experts on people of African descent, to represent the Caribbean and Latin America for the rest of the late Prof. Nettleford\u2019s two-year term. Dr. Shepherd\u2019s research interests are in Jamaican Economic History during slavery (especially the history of non-sugar activities), Migration and Diasporas, and Caribbean Women\u2019s history; on which topics she has published and lectured widely. Among her publications are: Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: contested terrain in colonial Jamaica<\/span> (2009); I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-colonial Jamaica<\/span> (2007), Maharanis Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India<\/span> (2001), and Transients to Settlers: The Experience of Indians in Jamaica<\/span> (1994). She is editor of Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom<\/span> (2002) and Slavery without Sugar<\/span> (2002). She is also co-author (with Prof. Hilary Beckles) of Liberties Lost: Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems<\/span> (2001), Freedoms Won<\/span> ( 2004), Trading Souls<\/span>(2007 and Saving Souls<\/span> (2007).<\/p>\n

Lori L. Tharp<\/span>s<\/strong>, co-author of the award-winning book, Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America<\/span>, is an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University. Her memoir, Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain<\/span> was listed in The Washington Post<\/span> as one of the Best Books of 2008. Atria Books will release Tharps\u2019 debut novel, Substitute Me<\/span>, in August 2010. Tharps lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.<\/p>\n

Rueben J. Thompson<\/span><\/strong> holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Environmental Science. He is the project manager of Environmental Protection in the Caribbean\u2019s Love the Lagoon Project. Thompson is also the vice president of the St. Maarten Pride Foundation and a founding board member of the Emilio Wilson Estate Foundation. A hard-working new generation environmentalist, his awards include: The 2009 Euan P. McFarlane Award for Outstanding Environmental Leadership in the Insular Caribbean; Today Newspaper\u2019s<\/span> \u201cMan of the year\u201d (2009); St. Martin\u2019s Day honoree for contributions to the development of St. Maarten (2009); Crystal Pineapple Award for Outstanding Environmental Program; and the award for Outstanding Organization Contributing to the Environmental Awareness (2008). Thompson is one of the leading voices against the further land-filling and polluting of the historic Great Salt Pond.<\/p>\n

Isidore \u201cMighty Dow\u201d York<\/span><\/strong> is a kaisonian and steelpan maestro. He is the 1995 and 2005 St. Martin calypso king and the 1982 and 1983 roadmarch king. With some 20 musical recordings to his credit, Dow is probably still best known for his super 1986 hit \u201cSt. Maarten Rumba.\u201d In 1987, he performed the rumba to over 100,000 people at the Festival de M\u00fasica de1 Caribe, Cartagena, Colombia. In 1990, Dow\u2019s rumba was nominated for \u201cBest Song of the Year\u201d in the Billboard<\/span>-sponsored Premio lo Nuestro a la M\u00fasica Latina. In 1991, he founded the Ebony Steel Orchestra Foundation and has since taught more than 200 students to play that essential Caribbean instrument, the steelpan. The book St. Martin Massive! A Snapshot on Popular Artists<\/span> (2000), features Dow as one of the nation\u2019s most popular artists at the turn of the century. In 2001, the music hall at the John Larmonie Center for Creative Arts was named in honor of Isidore \u201cMighty Dow\u201d York. His annual pan concert remains a cultural highlight of the nation\u2019s Christmas season.<\/p>\n

The 8th annual St. Martin Book Fair is organized by
\nthe Conscious Lyrics Foundation and House of Nehesi Nehesi Publishers
\nin collaboration with the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau the Collectivity of St. Martin, and the University of St. Martin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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