Blood at the Root: An Nkisi - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Originally from London, England, Tshaka Campbell was raised on his father's teachings of solidarity and brought up on orators the likes of Garvey's Pan-Africanism to William Churchill, as such, he adopted his father's intense love of language. Tshaka began writing poetry long before performing it in an attempt to find his own voice and point of view within the art form. As a performer, he is recognized as an accomplished artist internationally and performance accolades include not only being a member of the Nuyorican national poetry slam team and the Da Poetry Lounge (DPL) slam team, but also earning the Grand Champion title in San Francisco and Hollywood. He has also been honored with the UK Unsigned Artist award in poetry.Tshaka is the first black, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.

Atiba Azikiwe Andrews was born in Berkeley, California. Azikwe attended the California College of the Arts in Oakland / San Francisco. He moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and moved back to Oakland in 2011. He also lived in Brooklyn from 2018 to 2021 and has shown his work in those cities. He was part of an art program called ArtShare in Los Angeles and assisted with an afterschool program for at risk kids. Azikwe also worked with at-risk youth in NY. He works with acrylic on canvas and wood. His work mostly consists of figures and portraits. Azikwe lives in the Bay Area now and continues to share his work in different arenas.

Tureeda Mikell, Story Medicine Woman, author of The Body Oracle of Memory (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) and Synchronicity: Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press, 2020), nominated for the California Book Award, poet, is an educator and activist for holism, Black Panther Alum named Woman of Truths. Published in numerous anthologies, most recently, Black Fire 1 & II, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, with Uncommon Ground, Storm Warning, City Light's Second Stutter, Freedom Lifted, U. C. B. Digital Papers E-Zine, Stanford University's Extreme -Bay Area Poets, The Maynard, Temba Tupu, Emory University, and The EastSide Arts Alliance's Patrice Lumumba Anthologie and most recent release, Poetry Is Bread, 2025.A youth advocate, Mikell has published over 73 student anthologies from five bay area counties since 1989. She has traveled or Zoomed her work extensively across the country and internationally from Africa, Egypt, Mexico to China.