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Blurb This is my little black book of rage and pain towards my African roots and white society. I'm not on anyone's side, as an African born, Black British immigrant, I think everyone is equally problematic. As such, I had some race-related things to get off my chest, so I put them into poetry again. Here are 28 poems on my 'melanated madness', about how I continue to love myself as a person from a self-hating culture (African), that grew up in a racist society (British). Excerpt poem, 'Stop playing with me 'fore I turn you into a poem' (page 44): Family, society, The evil deep inside of me. On death, and life, and fantasy, I write it all to find some peace. Loving you, my soul to keep, Drugs, and dreams, and nothing cheap. The thoughts that make it hard to sleep, The blood I bleed, the ghosts I see. The waters, skies, plants, and trees, Kids, beasts, my favourite beings. Teasing you and sexy things, All your wants I turn to needs. A silenced voice that rarely speaks, Just in art or satin sheets. Sometimes it gets so hard to breathe, Till I pop a (pen) cap, and then relief... Contents 13. Why are you so angry? 16. African Child 19. Ebony 22. Bantu Princess 25. Asante Sana, Baba naMai 28. Protect black women 31. The black woman archytype 35. Jigaboo 38. King/Queen already 41. Lost and Found 44. Stop playing with me 'fore I turn you into a poem 47. Melenated Madness 50. The West, you do the most 53. Two can play that game 57. Refugee 60. At least it's not jail or crack 63. Freedom 66. Don't dread these locs 69. Ambition: the cure of the poison 72. Tough love 75. Cypher 78. Kill them before they grow 81. Black power(lessness) 84. For ghetto kids 87. Save me 90. Cypher 2 93. A King in Plato's Cave 96. Growing up in inner city London: tales from my childhood

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