ALEX HALEY

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Sometimes we authors fall in love with titles, especially if they’re ours and they come to us in a dream or in a flash of insight, begging to be written into a story or a poem.

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I can’t remember now how the poet Fidelito Cortes fell into our circle of beer-guzzling, Yeats-quoting friends in Diliman back in the early 1980s, but I do know that he was there, on Dec. 10, 1984, when my very first book (Oldtimer and Other Stories) was launched without much fanfare in UP.

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I don’t mean to flog a dead horse, but like many other Pinoys perplexed and dismayed by the abortive “Pilipinas Kay Ganda” slogan of the Department of Tourism, and as an occasional travel writer, I think that DOT Undersecretary Vicente “Enteng” Romano did the decent and honorable thing by owning up to the responsibility for the failed campaign and resigning from his position.
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In doing research for his epic story Root, Alex Haley embarked on the freighter African Star, sailing from Monrovia, Liberia, to Jacksonville, Florida.
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We are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. – Galatians 4:31


Kizzy Kinte didn’t have a chance. The daughter of Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley’s epic book Roots wanted to slip the bonds of slavery and live free, as her ancestors had done in Africa. But she couldn’t. She was born of a slavewoman, Bell Kinte, and in those terrible days of bondage, she was destined to live as a slave.


Kizzy’s parentage – over which she had no control – dictated her destiny.


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                    [Title] => Pinoy farmers’ peanuts link RP and Gambia
                    [Summary] => While the economy of the tiny Republic of Gambia in West Africa depends primarily on agriculture, it also finds itself agriculturally linked to the Philippines via the "pink" peanuts indigenously grown here.


Visiting Gambian President Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh was particularly proud of the fact that a variety of his country’s peanuts — their top export product — came to Gambia in 1966 all the way from the Philippines.


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The art of the title

By Butch Dalisay | February 24, 2014 - 12:00am

Sometimes we authors fall in love with titles, especially if they’re ours and they come to us in a dream or in a flash of insight, begging to be written into a story or a poem.

Arts and Culture

Men of letters

By Butch Dalisay | January 6, 2014 - 12:00am

I can’t remember now how the poet Fidelito Cortes fell into our circle of beer-guzzling, Yeats-quoting friends in Diliman...

Arts and Culture

WOW plagiarism

By Butch Dalisay | November 29, 2010 - 12:00am

I don’t mean to flog a dead horse, but like many other Pinoys perplexed and dismayed by the abortive “Pilipinas Kay Ganda” slogan of the Department of Tourism, and as an occasional travel writer,...

Arts and Culture

It's a fact

February 16, 2009 - 12:00am

In doing research for his epic story Root, Alex Haley embarked on the freighter African Star, sailing from Monrovia, Liberia, to Jacksonville, Florida.

Daily Bread

Are you free?

January 31, 2007 - 12:00am

We are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. – Galatians 4:31 Kizzy Kinte didn’t have a chance. The daughter of Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley’s epic book Roots wanted to slip the bonds of...

Daily Bread

Pinoy farmers’ peanuts link RP and Gambia

By Marichu A. Villanueva | June 23, 2005 - 12:00am

While the economy of the tiny Republic of Gambia in West Africa depends primarily on agriculture, it also finds itself agriculturally linked to the Philippines via the "pink" peanuts indigenously grown...

Headlines

Teaching in the trenches

By Butch Dalisay | June 20, 2005 - 12:00am

It was back to school and back to humid reality for me last week, as the first semester opened and as I gamely reported to my department to deliver on my pledge of teaching four undergraduate subjects, after spending...

Arts and Culture