>i've been studying the diaspora and >the connections within it for >years, and Jamaica was what >got me started when i >discovered that there were words >in patois that were words >i grew up using in >Nigeria! (like "yanga" for showing >off, or "buckra," for "master" >or "boss"... it's a corruption >of the Efik word for >European, "mbakara"... i just thought >that was so cool...
yes i am and it _is_ cool. so do some little films on that. also i was watching Gladiator the other day (my uncle bought it 4 me so i had to, b/c i had no plans on watching it) and i thought it would be so cool to c one of our Epics on screen like: Sundiata of Mali or Hannibal i wonder who should play Sundiata, Snipes? i think he would like that.
Shemhotep ************ "Be not arrogant because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the wise. For the limits of knowledge in any field have never been set and no one has ever reached them. Wisdom is rarer than emeralds, and yet it is found among the women who gather at the grindstones." -The Book of Ptahhotep(excerpt)