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    Lead in the Veins
    Lead in the Veins
    Lead in the Veins
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    Lead in the Veins

    By Imani M. Tafari-Ama

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    Lead in the Veins is Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama's critical synopsis of development concerns confronting Jamaica – including unresolved issues of colonialism and its aftermath; political complicity with violence, masculinity and the incorporation of some men into the prevailing discourse of violence. Passion, love and loss also take their place in this fast-paced text, while the final words are devoted to an exploration of philosophical and existential questions.

    Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, who holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Studies from the Institute of Social Studies and Erasmus University in The Hague, The Netherlands, has done extensive research and development work in the areas of gender, justice, violence, sexuality, poverty and political economy. She is also an expert in the use of development communication techniques including audiovisual documentation, workshops, drama, focus group discussions, face-to-face and telephone interviews and surveys as data-gathering instruments. Her Doctoral thesis, Blood, Bullets and Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica's Poverty Line (2006), now a published book, is a comprehensive case study of Southside, an inner-city community in Kingston, Jamaica, which explores historical and contemporary connections among bourgeois democracy, urban violence, political economy, sexuality and identity politics to show the complex contradictions that are inherent to the Northern Caribbean island.

    A Pan-Afrikan visionary, Dr. Tafari-Ama also lectures on a wide range of topics including identity politics, violence, gender and embodiment, feminism/womanism, and Participating Action Research.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateNov 28, 2016
    ISBN9781786451149
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    Imani M. Tafari-Ama

    Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama is International Fellow and Curator at the Flensburger Schifffahrtsmuseum, tasked with formulating an African-Caribbean analysis of Danish Colonialism and Legacy in Flensburg, the Virgin Islands of the United States and Ghana.With a Ph.D. is in Development Studies and Masters degree in Women and Development Studies, Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama has lectured across a broad range of disciplines and on a number of topics including: feminist methodology/epistemology, action research and the policy process, the culture of Rastafari and African religious retentions in the Caribbean, thought and action in the African Diaspora, Dancehall, sex and religious ideology and culture and community development, as well as being invited to give special lectures on colonial history, violence and gender and development issues and Rastafari at institutions around the world.Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama is the author of: Blood, Bullets and Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica’s Poverty Line, Up For Air: This Half Has Never Been Told (an award-winning novel; https://youtu.be/qQNYGjRFlwk) and Lead in the Veins (poetry) as well as several book chapters and articles. She is also a multimedia journalist who has produced several audio-visual documentaries including ‘Setting the Skin Tone’, which explores the catastrophic social practice of skin bleaching (https://youtu.be/VNwIZ_xHjm0). This eight-and-a half minute video documentary (produced in 2006) is an excerpt from her Doctoral research.

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      Lead in the Veins - Imani M. Tafari-Ama

      She use the pen

      Like a surgeon’s knife

      Cutting through the pain

      Removing the blood stain

      That strain

      The hearts of many

      The poet writes

      Let their be light

      Let the anger turn into rays

      Of hope

      Who can cope

      With so many social ills

      Too many pills

      The pain still sears

      the pen is searchin

      For the disease that sicken

      Our mind’s lines drawn

      Who will remove it

      The poet writes

      But words will not wash away

      The pain

      The tears of mothers cryin

      Children dyin

      The poet’s pen must become

      The surgeon’s knife

      That cuts and removes

      This disease

      That hurts us all

      The system must fall

      The poets call…

      To order…

      Turn the boat over

      Come outside

      Of this box that enslaves

      Our mind

      Our body…

      The poet writes…must write

      To relieve her own pain…her anger…

      The chains

      of her love

      The poet starts from

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