Liberian Literary Magazine
about imagism! Also just
recently finished Dead
Aid by Dambisa Moyo
about the problems of
foreign aid to Africa. I’m
finishing up the huge,
new Graham Hancock
tome, Magicians of the
Gods,
an
incredible
scholarly work about pre
and
post
Ice
Age
mysteries. And I’m half
way through the thoughtprovoking Matt Ridley
book,
The
Rational
Optimist, How Prosperity
Evolves. Don’t seem to
read much fiction these
days.
Tell us your latest news,
promotions, book tours,
launch etc.
I will currently be reading
a number of selections
from Higher Glyphics on
my radio program, Brave
New World, on Fifthwall
Radio.
http://www.fifthwallradio.
com/
What are your current
projects?
Finishing up the next
poetry
book,
Gnarly
Roots. Working on a
poetry/narrative/photog
raphy book with my
Santa Fe photographer
friend, Jeffery Nelson
(whose beautiful photo
we
use
for
Higher
Glyphics), currently titled
The
Perception
of
Promoting Liberian literature, Arts and Culture
Mystery, based on his
superlative photographs
of ancient sites in the
Southwestern
United
States. And my second
screenplay called, The
End, about, you guessed
it…the end of the world
as we know it.
Have you read book[s]
by [a] Liberian author[s]
or about Liberia?
Yes, quite a few. Before I
went to Liberia in 1969, I
read Graham Greene’s
travelogue,
Journey
Without Maps, which I
found a bit disturbing
because of its negative
and
paternal
and
somewhat
colonial
outlook on Liberia at that
time, the early 30s.
Interestingly,
in
the
summer of 1969, four
American and Liberian
friends and I retraced
some of his travels
through Voinjama, Konia,
Ziggidah and Zorzor,
climbing to the top of Mt.
Wanigizi.
Unlike
Mr.
Greene’s interpretation,
we
found
it
quite
exhilarating.
Have always loved Bai T.
Moore’s classic, Murder in
the Cassava Patch. And
recently read and just
totally enjoyed Nvasekie
Konneh’s great book, The
Land of My Father’s Birth.
There was so much that I
enjoyed
about
Mr.
25
Konneh’s
book.
His
wonderful, lilting style of
writing and all of the
detailed stories about
growing up in an area I
knew quite well but was
there when he was just a
young child. Also, my last
visit to Liberia was in 1975,
so my entire knowledge
and experience in Liberia
was before the uncivil
wars. I had no idea of
some of the tortuous
detail that he expressed
in such emotive style.
I have also published two
articles about Liberia.
One
regarding
the
potential utilization of
traditional work groups in
modern farming and the
other an introspective
article about the recent
Ebola situation.
Any last words?
My deepest and most
humble thanks to all who
are part of the Liberian
Literary Magazine family.
I thank you for inviting me
in. It is an awesome
publication and I greatly
love and admire all of the
fabulous writers.