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Gerard van Veen, author, probation officer, actor passed on at 88
by Lasana M. Sekou
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (March 22, 2022)—Gerardus Theodorus Benedictus Maria van Veen died peacefully in his sleep on March 13, 2022, at St. Maarten Medical Center, Cay Hill. He was 88.
read on…Badejo: Fantasies – love-making poems
Rosabelle Chuchi Illes writes:
So cool to see my words on the backcover of former Nigerian diplomat mr. Badejo’s collection of poetry entitled Fantasies: love-making poems. read on…
Fantasies – Love-making poems
Fantasies – Love-making poems by Fabian Badejo, “a grown-up” book launching at St. Martin Book Fair 2018
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 29, 2018)—Fantasies – Love-making poems by Fabian Adekunle Badejo has just been published here by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP), said the indie press president Jacqueline Sample. The newest book by Badejo, a well-known St. Martin writer, is “A grown-up literary confection that does what verse written by men seems to seldom do these days,” said author and journalist Sharon Leach of the Jamaica Observer newspaper. read on…
Sint Maarten: 27th Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
Wednesday, January 15 the 27th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture will be given at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library, “A Revolution of Values …”, a discussion and new book launch with Lasana M. Sekou and Fabian Adekunle Badejo
Organized by Conscious Lyrics Foundation in corporation with Sos-Radio Billy D 95.9 FM, House of Nehesi Publishers, PJD2 1300 AM .
Where I See The Sun … I see harvest
by Fabian Ade Badejo
Thirty-one years is a long time to wait for a new harvest of voices, but in many respects, Where I See The Sun – Contemporary Poetry in St. Martin – the second anthology of poetry to be published on the island within two generations, was quite worth the wait.
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