Nkosi Ife Bandele

Working as a critic, I began writing professionally in response to the film "I’m Gonna Git You Sucka" by Keenan Ivory Wayans. I felt that the film was a dirty trick to promote African American ster...view moreWorking as a critic, I began writing professionally in response to the film "I’m Gonna Git You Sucka" by Keenan Ivory Wayans. I felt that the film was a dirty trick to promote African American stereotypes while purporting to satirize them. It signaled a move since further exploited by artists such as Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino in their likewise demeaning works, though very few critics seem to notice. My novels, "The Ape is Dead!" and "Scott Free," feature African American protagonists, who defy stereotypes, and all varieties of racism, while pursuing their own unique spaces and creative outlets. "The Ape is Dead!" will be published by Crimson Cloak Publishing this year. Excerpts have appeared in Hobart Magazine, http://www.hobartpulp.com/preview/web_features/huff-and-puff; Crescendo City; and great weather for MEDIA’s “It’s Animal but Merciful.” Excerpts from my second novel, "Scott Free," are featured in Moonshot magazine’s “issue #5 “ritornello”; as well as Akashic Books fiction series, http://www.akashicbooks.com/if-you-leave-a-twenty-and-a-crackhead-alone-in-your-room-its-your-own-damn-fault-by-eshu-bandele/; and Crimson Cloak Publishing anthology “Love Matters,” at crimsoncloakpublishing.com/nkosi-ife-bandele.html. I am also the author of the screenplay "Love is Crazy," a Writer’s Digest award-winner. I studied literature at Columbia University, and I currently work as an adjunct professor at several New York City universities teaching academic writing and the occasional literature course. I live in New York City with my wife and two children.view less