Safiya Sinclair is a powerful, riveting writer. Her use of language and imagery blows me away. The interviewer ask very insightful questions and elicited interesting responses as to how this amazing writer weaves poetry and cultural history into her memoir. I can’t wait to read her poetry.
I am on the last chapter of your memoir and I am savoring these pages as the tears flow. I see my father in your father being a Caribbean woman myself. I identified with this book so much although not Rastafari but my father was all about black empowerment in post-colonial Trinidad. Thank you for this touching memoir Safiya!
I am reading How to Say Babylon now and I am very moved by the story and the way it is told. It resonates in me most among all the memoirs I have read so far. Beyond the differences between Ms Sinclair’s and my childhood in Japan of 1960s and 1979s, our stories are very similar as young ambitious girls wanting to define us with our own words yearning to be educated and become independent. Thank you for such an inspirational book.
What a brilliant interviewer, sensitively bringing out the best from Safiya Sinclair and allowing her the perfect platform to talk about her life, story and poetry.
I wonder how Dr. Sinclair would characterize The Rastafarians by Leonard Barrett Sr. and Rastafari: Roots and Ideology by Barry Chevannes. I met Dr. Chevennes's daughter, Amba, through an exchange program between the University of the West Indies and Spelman College.
Safiya Sinclair is a powerful, riveting writer. Her use of language and imagery blows me away. The interviewer ask very insightful questions and elicited interesting responses as to how this amazing writer weaves poetry and cultural history into her memoir. I can’t wait to read her poetry.
The memoir is absolute genius!
I am on the last chapter of your memoir and I am savoring these pages as the tears flow. I see my father in your father being a Caribbean woman myself. I identified with this book so much although not Rastafari but my father was all about black empowerment in post-colonial Trinidad. Thank you for this touching memoir Safiya!
The interviewer asked absolutely the best questions.
One of the best books I have ever read. So moving, so powerful, so haunting.
I am reading How to Say Babylon now and I am very moved by the story and the way it is told. It resonates in me most among all the memoirs I have read so far. Beyond the differences between Ms Sinclair’s and my childhood in Japan of 1960s and 1979s, our stories are very similar as young ambitious girls wanting to define us with our own words yearning to be educated and become independent. Thank you for such an inspirational book.
Love this. Amazing piece of history
What a brilliant interviewer, sensitively bringing out the best from Safiya Sinclair and allowing her the perfect platform to talk about her life, story and poetry.
Wow !! An Absolutely Well Spoken Drop Dead Gorgeous Jamaican Woman 😃 😚😍
I wonder how Dr. Sinclair would characterize The Rastafarians by Leonard Barrett Sr. and Rastafari: Roots and Ideology by Barry Chevannes. I met Dr. Chevennes's daughter, Amba, through an exchange program between the University of the West Indies and Spelman College.