Kayo Chingonyi – Digesting History – Poems
by Kayo Chingonyi
by Kayo Chingonyi
by Kayo Chingonyi
by Kayo Chingonyi and Axel Kacoutié
Axel Kacoutie interviews Kayo Chingonyi at Kayo Chingonyi – Threnodies, an event at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
What happens to a dream deferred? An exhilarating evening of poetry, music and dance celebrating an iconic Harlem poet in partnership with East London Dance and Kinetika Bloco.
langston-hughes-dreams-deferred-kayo-chingonyi.mp3 The epicentre of Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’ rhythmic, urgent poetry empowered a generation of new writers, with an aftershock that still reverberates today. His work was full of music and dance, and described the Black American experience over decades. Characterised by narratives of empowerment and a belief in humanity, he celebrated Black identity in…