From his work, and undoubtedly from his own life experience, Kendi knows what it is to be oppressed. Kendi is founding director of the Boston University Centre for Antiracist Research and has been named, by Time magazine, as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. That was before the Mayflower docked in 1620, an arrival for which a national holiday is designated. And thus Four Hundred Souls celebrates the 400 th anniversary of the two dozen Ndongo people, kidnapped from what is now Angola, who disembarked from the White Lion at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. Each of the 10 decades has 8 pieces and a poem as a coda. They are not, obviously, the first to undertake such a task but they are the only ones who have gathered 80 contributors.
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