Mankwe
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Songmaker, Educator, Cultural Strategist |
| Location | Minneapolis / Chicago, Minnesota / Illinois, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Mankwe Ndosi has been working in the Twin Cities and Chicago for more than 20 years as a musicmaker, performer, educator and culture weaver focused on sound, story, and expanding the vocabulary of singing. She seeks to infuse creative practice back into the worlds of healing, sustainable economic development, education, and new village community building. |
| Interests | organizing, self-sufficiency, medicinal properties of common plants, reading, movies, dancing, cooking, making music, writing, sytemic social change, spirituality, environmental responsibility, growing food, flowers, East African politics, social and political theory, language, Ifa/Orisa |
| Favorite movies | Whale Rider, Daughters of the Dust, Rabbit Proof Fence, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, Chocolate, Raising Arizona, Ghost Dog, Devil in A Blue Dress, |
| Favorite music | Oumou Sangare, Talib Kweli, Estelle, Aretha Franklin, Labelle, Erykah Badu, Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, Ella Fitgerald, John Coltrane, Missy Elliot, The Meters, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, |
| Favorite books | A People's history of the United States, The God of Small Things, The Famished Road,where there is no Doctor, Writing Down the Bones, Can't Stop, Won't Stop, Class Matters, Yoruba Proverbs, Art and Upheaval, Are Prisons Obsolete?, Healing Wise, Light on Yoga, Writing Down the Bones, Sex for One, The Mirror of Relationship, Velvet Be Bop-Kente Cloth, Abolition Democracy |