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MY KNEES BEFORE THESE MIGHTY HEAVENS (Paperback)
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Author: Momodou Ceesay
Price: 12.99 Dollars
ISBN: 1578640660
Pages: 100
Year: 2007
Category: Fiction
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In this
book, the protagonist Issa Kujabi seeks an audience with God, in order
to lament on the condition of African people today. The book speaks of
social injustice; the cold-heartedness of the ruling elite in Africa;
and the phenomena of Africa s demise, but done with poetry and art. Two
distinct expressions of creativity are combined to put forth a powerful
and moving story; a story of an African man s spiritual journey. The
work uses excerpts from Hebrew Scripture and the Koran to describe the
searching for a better life for African and African American people.
Momodou Ceesay adds to the virtual reality of the story line by
delineating the poem with 36 of his original paintings. Through a
dialogue , the poem begins with the particular destruction, genocide and
suffering of African people and of their descendants in the Diaspora.
The scope is then widened to include the negative forces that seem to
grip the planet as a whole. It moves from despair to vision as the
dialogue progresses, ending with a revelation giving reasons for
suffering and what the future holds for Africa and the world as a whole. |
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| About the Author: |
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Momodou Ceesay was born in Banjul, the capital of The
Gambia, in West Africa, in 1945. His early education was
received in Banjul, but in his teens he was granted a number
of scholarships to study abroad, at Suffield Academy and
Wesleyan University in Connecticut. In 1970, he received a
Bachelor's Degree from that University, having majored in
languages and literature. He has also received diplomas from
the University de Poitiers in Tours, and La Sorbonne in
Paris, both in France, for studies of the French language.
After these academic pursuits, Ceesay decided to pursue a
career in art. Essentially self-taught, the artist was able
to, from the beginning, bring forth a highly individualist
vision, as seen in the uniqueness of his style and use of
colors. This trend is seen in his numerous acrylics,
watercolors, and serigraphs. Ceesay has exhibited
extensively, and is in major public and private collections
around the world. In the United States, his works are well
known through the Heritage Collection card series. |
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