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Apr 27, 2023 · Abiodun Oyewole, best known for his lifelong membership in The Last Poets, takes a well-deserved solo turn. Like their creator, then, these poems are not unambitious, but they succeed. ~ Bill Adler, co-author of Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label
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ABIODUN OYEWOLE is a poet, teacher, and a founding member of...
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One of the original Last Poets, Abiodun Oyewole issued this...
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The Last Poets. Books/Merch. CDs
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Abiodun Oyewole. May 12, 2020; 2 min; Living Without Sports....
- Saint Harriet
Harriet Tubman was and is a saint. Her spirit still guides...
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On May 19, 2020, I participated in an online tribute to The...
- How Many Ways
How many ways have you tried to kill meNo matter how hard...
- About the Last Poets
The Last Poets were born on May 19, 1968, when David Nelson,...
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Abiodun Oyewole (born Charles Davis, February 1948), is a poet, teacher and member of the African-American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which developed into what is considered to be the first hip hop group. [1]
During the course of his forty year career and his long affiliation with The Last Poets, Oyewole is one of several poets credited for liberating American poetry by creating open, vocal, spontaneous, energetic and uncensored vernacular verse that paved the way for spoken word and Hip Hop.
They released several albums and wrote the classic poems "Niggers are Scared of Revolution," "This is Madness," and "When the Revolution Comes." They are widely acknowledged as being the fathers...
In his new collection of poetry, Naked, Abiodun Oyewole unveils his thoughts on self-love, forgiveness, lost love, survival, and cultural identity. Known as a founding member of The Last Poets, a spoken word performance group that arose out of the black nationalism movement in East Harlem in the late 1960’s, Oyewole brings his revolutionary ...
BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE is the first comprehensive volume of poems by Abiodun Oyewole, many of them never before published. Oyewole’s poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving.
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The Last Poets were born on May 19, 1968, when David Nelson, Gylan Kain, and Abiodun Oyewole read poetry at a memorial for Malcolm X. Their goal was to be a poetic voice for Malcolm’s call for self-determination and Black Nationalism.
