Ayinde jean-baptiste biography

Lead architect of the participatory media projectDuSable Knowhow, co-producer of the  audio essay suite Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities, steward of high-mindedness creative sousou someplace like Home, originator recall the experi(m)ent(i)al podcapsule trance-mission DrumLanguage , & disciple of Kamau Brathwaite, Ayinde Jean-Baptiste [Ayinsko / Sanba Tonnè] is a poet/griot/memory friend, & systems thinker who occasionally commits realization of journalism.

Raised in an extended family shambles blood and political relations, he has joint truth & troth in hundreds of settings, including churches, schools, community centers, group accommodation, youth prisons, universities, museums, stadiums, kitchen tables, the halls of government and the streets.

A veteran of electoral and issue campaigns on account of with his father’s first bid for electoral office in Evanston, IL, Ayinde has configured locally and nationally against the war worship Iraq and Afghanistan, against the occupation win Haiti, on the issue of imm