From The CBC/Canada: Black On The Praries, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
This is a marvelous multi-faceted presentation of historical and present experiences of
Canada's Black population.
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/black-on-the-prairies
I've chosen to present one of the items on the above site. It's a poem by a Canadian-
Nigerian...
Arrival, An ode to Black Prairie women by Titilope Sonuga
Only the trees know
what wayward wind buoyed the first one thousand
through river, creek, and muskeg,
feet a calloused bark we peel until the fleshy center.
We count the rings to tell us:
how many lifetimes is the measure
between a stolen land and a stolen people?
What is lost eternally in the currency of the sale?
How many paces is each generation
between limber pine and baobab,
between prairie grass and cotton?
> These are only the first 3 parts of this very lengthy work. View the complete poem at...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/bop-arrival-titilope-sonuga-1.5896996
There is much, much more text, photos and video at both links provided here. It's all
very much worth a look.
