101 Untitled Pieces by Nakeesha Charles

I released my first ebook of poetry yesterday. It’s available on Kindle / Amazon here. A few summers ago I went on a paper purge. I went through…

Surviving COVID

This Coronavirus situation has lasted longer than any of us common folk could have expected. It has affected business, travel and day to day life for over a…

Sobo Bade

Toubab Dialaw

Twenty minutes from Dakar’s airport sits a series of small seaside villages in a cove off the Atlantic’s African coast. Amoung those villages is an area popular with…

Senegalese Wrestling

In Wolof, the most widely spoken African language in Senegal, wrestling is called “Laamb” or “Lamb Dji.” In Serer, another popular African language with at least five dialects,…

Iris Hotel

Pointe des Almadies

Dakar, Senegal – West Africa On the other side of the Atlantic (from the North American perspective), on the coast of Senegal in their capital city Dakar, there…

Redondo Beach

Everyone seems to be taking their time to do whatever it is they are doing in whatever time it takes to do it.

Rick’s Cafe Casablanca

Dining in Casablanca, Morocco  On a visit this summer to the northwestern African country of Morocco, in the city of Casablanca, I had beautiful evening in a magical…

The Hunger 9

When someone brings up the subject of police brutality against Black Americans, there is often someone else standing by with a question about black on black crime. They…