Black Bird Press News & Review: Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie

Black Bird Press News & Review: Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie: The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apenmanship and parrotry enforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary; their ideas are spread by a corpus of state intellectuals, the academic and journalistic laureates of the neo-colonial establishment.
--Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Decolonizing the Mind

 

Marvin X and Fahizah Alim, longtime friends. He was her teacher, she is writer emeritus at the Sacramento Bee. At the Sacramento Bee she was Lois Lane and Superwoman for the Sacramento Blacks.