my friend from CIA Africa who lives in Côte d’Ivoire and will be performing in Paris on the 28th and 29th of this month emails:
“OK OK BLACK PRESIDENT no no BLACK FAMILY IN WHITE HOUSE ,
IN ABIDJAN THE NAME OF THE NEW PREsiDENT OF THE WORLD
IS BARACKA FOUSSINI BRAMA , lol ,in MALI BAMAKO BAMA …
in all Africa people remix the name with ethnic name reference…”
today we’re gonna have our cake, and we’re gonna eat our cake.
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January 20, 2009
Elizabeth Alexander!
You gotta be beaming man! I know I was. Looking foward to a great 4 years!
P.S. ABC definitely cut to a close up of some dude in a GZA hat…
January 20, 2009
Transcript of her poem (with line breaks as best as I could conjecture based on her reading) — http://www.beatdiaspora.com/?p=189