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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Birthday</title>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Derek Walcott</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poet and playwright Derek Walcott was born and raised in St Lucia. His work has been described as an evolving conversation with his birthplace. In Omeros, his adaptation of the Illiad, he centres on the rivalry between Achilles and Hector, who are portrayed as two St Lucian fishermen. He maintains a presence on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Muhammad Ali!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali was born on 17 January 1942. Happy Birthday to him. © and photo credit: http://en.wikipedia.org]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/happy-birthday-nelson-mandela/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NB: The following is only part of what Nelson Mandela said in his defense in 1964, when he was being tried for treason in South-Africa, and going to be, as everyone had thought, sentenced to death. It is only the last bit of that speech. Read all of it at this site. The rest is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Malcolm X!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/05/happy-birthday-malcolm-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Malcolm X All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak; Whose voices echo clamors of our cool capers, And whose black faces have hollowed pits for eyes. All you gambling sons and hooked children and bowery bums Hating white devils and black bourgeoisie, Thumbing your noses at your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Geoffrey!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/happy_birthday_geoffrey_philp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/happy_birthday_geoffrey_philp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey Philp has written a children&#8217;s book, Grandpa Sydney&#8217;s Anancy Stories, a novel, called Benjamin, My Son, books of short stories, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien as well as the more recent Who&#8217;s Your Daddy, and five poetry collections, among them Exodus and Other Poems, Florida Bound, hurricane center, xango music, and Twelve Poems and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Miriam Makeba!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/happy-birthday-miriam-makeba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miriam Zenzi Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. Her professional career began in the 1950s with the Manhattan Brothers, before she formed her own group, The Skylarks, singing a blend of jazz and traditional melodies of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday ntate Sobukwe!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/happy_birthday_ntate_sobukwe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/happy_birthday_ntate_sobukwe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born on 5 December 1924]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/mandela_birthday_rethabile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/mandela_birthday_rethabile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today ntate Mandela is 63 years old, if you consider the fact that he spent 27 years in jail for wanting to live like a human, and wanting the same thing for his people. But he&#8217;s really 90 years old, if you consider the fact that he used those 27 years to change South Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Malcolm</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/remembering_malcolm-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rethabile remembers Malcolm X on Poefrika. It&#8217;s an easy day for me to remember as it&#8217;s also my son&#8217;s birthday. He spent the day looking at some of his maternal ancestors over at the British Museum in London meanwhile here is Rethabile&#8217;s post For Malcolm X All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Mazisi Kunene!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/happy_birthday_mazisi_kunene/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/happy_birthday_mazisi_kunene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1930 [12th of May]. He graduated from the University of Natal with a paper on traditional and modern Zulu poetry. In 1959 he obtained a grant to complete his doctoral dissertation in London. From this point on Kunene dedicated himself to the struggle for freedom [...]]]></description>
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