by Askia M. Toure

Askia M. Toure, poet, essayist, editor and political activist, is an architect and leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. He is a former editor of the Journal of Black Poetry, Black Dialogue & Black Star, and staff writer for Liberator magazine, organs of the Black Power Revolt. Mr. Toure is widely published in a host of anthologies in the United States and abroad. He is author of JuJu and Songhai!, volumes of verse, and co-author of "Samory Toure," a political biography.