October 2008
The Safe Black Universe
Posted October 29 in Afrikan Centered Theatre & Culture, Comments 0
By Shepsu Aakhu
My voice has its own metronome. It comes from an amalgam of my personal experiences, as well as a deep commitment to introspection. I essentially write a world that is populated by the people I have known, and the many facets of my own spirit. I do not write to sell. I write to explore, discover, and reveal.
In this practiced art of mining my own soul, I have found freedom in style and subject. I have since discovered it to be largely unappreciated, unheralded, and unrewarded on the American stage, especially as it relates to the diversity of Black stories.
Environmentalism and Black Expression
Posted October 27 in Afrikan Centered Theatre & Culture, Comments 0
By Shepsu Aakhu
The environmental movement has taken a firm grip on the music, film, and theatre industries. If Americans recycled newspapers and aluminum cans the way the industry recycles samples, beats, remakes, sequels, and revivals, the world’s energy problems would cease to exist. What drives this phenomenon? The quest for marketability, but I suspect you already knew that. What is the cost of this phenomenon? That is a far more interesting question.