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Sekou Sundiata was an African-American poet and performer, as well as a teacher at The New School in New York City. Famous students include musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty. His plays include ''The Circle Unbroken is a Hard Bop'', ''The Mystery of Love'', ''Udu'', and ''The 51st Dream State''. He also released several albums, including ''Longstoryshort'' and ''The Blue Oneness of Dreams''.〔(''New York Times'', "Sekou Sundiata Dies at 58; Performer of Text and Sound" July 20 2007 )〕 The ''Blue Oneness of Dreams'' was nominated for a Grammy Award.〔(AP via Topix.net "Poet, Performer Sekou Sundiata Dies" July 20 2007 )〕 His subjects included Jimi Hendrix, Nelson Mandela, and reparations for slavery. Sundiata was a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, a Columbia University Revson Fellow, a Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, the first Writer-in-Residence at the New School University in New York, and a professor at Eugene Lang College. He was a featured poet on two occasions, at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, most recently in 2006. ==Early life and education== Sekou Sundiata was born Robert Franklin Feaster in Harlem but changed his name in the late 1960s to honor his African heritage. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from the City College of New York in 1972 before successfully undertaking a master's degree in creative writing from the City University of New York.〔(''New York Times'', "Sekou Sundiata Dies at 58; Performer of Text and Sound" July 20 2007 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sekou Sundiata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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