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Zola Salena-Hawkins (Ubiquitous-2)
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"MOMENTS-IN TIME" explores the creative works of Odie Hawkins & wife - Teacher Zola. It shares video clips of the individuals he works with to help develop their talents. Odie Hawkins was encouraged by Alex Haley in the 1980’s when he told Norman Lear, “I think Odie Hawkins is a very talented writer, a brilliant story teller. He deserves a wider audience.” (See Palmerstown “Old Sister” - www.imdb.com/title/tt06). Hawkins is the creator of the Pan-African occult genre as explored in his books "The Snake Doctor", "Shackles Across Time".... In these "Moments-in-Time" we both give back to the community. Odie Hawkins with writing workshops, teaching Capoeira Angola, an African-Brazilian Martial Art, and a variety of UA-cam gems. Odie Hawkins has a Black belt in Taekowdo and has practiced Capoeira for over 40 years. I share my training in Tai Chi and various videos to keep folks moving no matter how long they've been a "Kid". We both are Certified Tai Chi Instructors.
A New Moment - "Matador Negro Azucar"
A New Moment - Ghana - “Matador Negro, Azucar”
Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins
Reviewer: Heather
Maybe it was the coolness of the weather that made the Monday reading literary chit that thing with Odie and Zola Salena-Hawkins so entertaining.
The couple have decided to do a YouTubing on Odies novels (38+) - “We felt that it would be an interesting experience.”
It was interesting, this discussion of Odie’s book “Matador Negro, Azucar.” It’s the story of a young African-American male who decides to pursue his dream - to go to Mexico to become a Matador. Check it out - www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/436770-The-Black-Matador-Sugar
Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins
Reviewer: Heather
Maybe it was the coolness of the weather that made the Monday reading literary chit that thing with Odie and Zola Salena-Hawkins so entertaining.
The couple have decided to do a YouTubing on Odies novels (38+) - “We felt that it would be an interesting experience.”
It was interesting, this discussion of Odie’s book “Matador Negro, Azucar.” It’s the story of a young African-American male who decides to pursue his dream - to go to Mexico to become a Matador. Check it out - www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/436770-The-Black-Matador-Sugar
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A New Moment Ghana Shackles Across Time 2
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A New Moment - Ghana - “Shackles Across Time” Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins Reviewer: Heather “To be absolutely honest with you, ‘Shackles Across Time’ is one of those books I wish I could’ve avoided writing, but there it was, nestling in the back of my head, so I felt compelled to do the right thing.” - Odie Hawkins. “Shackles Across Time” is a Pan-African horror story, if you wanted to t...
A New Moment - Shackles Across Time Part 1
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A New Moment - “Shackles Across Time” Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins Reviewer: Heather “Shackles Across Time” is a creative look at a time in history when Africans were involved in the African Slave business. Hawkins gets a bit mythical about that history. But sews it up neatly in the novel which can be purchased on Amazon. More to come after the gardener finishes his work. Mi ba
A New Moment - Mr. Bonobo Bliss
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A New Moment - “Mr. Bonobo Bliss” Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins Reviewer: Heather Odie and Zola Salena-Hawkins are at it again. A couple weeks ago they jumped out at us with a new program, a sort of family discussion of Odie Hawkins’ novels. The family discussion was complete with little tongue-in-cheek innuendos, sly references to sexual things, a sophisticated approach to stuff. Odie rea...
A New Moment "Lady Bliss"
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A New Moment - “Lady Bliss” Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins Reviewer: Heather It should be a television show, this new thing that Odie and Zola Salena (they make you feel that you know them) have surfaced with. In brief, it is a blatant advertising of Odie’s thirty-eight books (“…that’s why they’ve named me, ‘The Underground Master’”). It’s straightforward, but uniquely curved to suit the pe...
A New Moment "Ghetto Sketches, 2021" Part 2
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A New Moment - “Ghetto Sketches, 2021” - Part 2 Odie Hawkins & Zola Salena-Hawkins Reviewer: Heather The team, Odie and Zola Salena-Hawkins are on another literary journey. Last time it was Odie Hawkins reading the columns from the African Times newspaper, 1996-1999. Today they opened up a new chapter of a “New Moment” by analyzing some of the characters first written about in his “Ghetto Sketc...
A New Moment - "Ghetto Sketches"
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Odie Hawkins Reviewer: Heather Two days before Juneteenth (June 17th) Odie and Zola Salena-Hawkins decided to open a new page, a new view of Odie’s prolific writing life. They spent hours of the early part of 2024 making us acquainted with a series of columns that Odie Hawkins had written for The African Times, published by C. Charles Anyiam. “The column was called ‘Africa Media Watch’. I wrote...
"Discovering the Beauty of Cancun Part Two"
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“Moments-in-Time - “Discovering the Beauty of Cancun - Part Two” Odie Hawkins Review: Heather Africa Media Watch/Jan. 15-31/1999. A second column about his trip to the Yucatan Penisula shores up the idea of the complex relationship that existed between the enslaved Africans in Vera Cruz, Mexico; Jamaica; Barbados;Vodun Haiti; Florida. He suggests, based on his study of the African Olmec cranium...
Odie and Zola at the Park
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“Moments-in-Time - Odie & Zola at the Park. Just a Moment-in-Time to do the 8 Pieces of Brocade and 24 Tai Chi Yang form slowly. Teacher Zola and Teacher Odie demonstrate a form of Qigong The 8 Pieces of Brocade. Remember that the sequence is not fixed. It is merely a LIST of individual exercises that should be repeated 7 - 15 times. If you don’t have time to do them all, pick one or two and pr...
To Josephine in Memory of Armando Peraza (Description - 1969 Poem to Armando)
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Sharing A Moment-in-Time with Friends: Odie Hawkins “Me and Them” © March 1969 Poem: “Armando Peraza, before and after the last set” "Deep, proud, arrogant, beautiful brother… we have watched. . .from knee-knocking seats, in the desert rhythm land of oceanside nightspots. . . your dazzling, stereophonic hands drop gleaming, pistol-shot beats on effervescent congas. . . we have heard, from your ...
Moments in Time, "Ghana is it!"
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“Moments-in-Time - “Ghana is it!” Odie Hawkins Review: Heather Africa Media Watch/Jan. 15-31/1999. Odie Hawkins tripped off to Ghana in May 1992, for a three-month holiday and wound up spending three years. “As unbelievable as it may sound to some people, I left a heavenly place, a place filled with color T.V.s, indoor plumbing and so much food that it was/is sometimes left to rot in huge silos...
Discovering the Beauty of Cancun
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“Moments-in-Time - “Discovering the Beauty of Cancun” Odie Hawkins Review: Heather Africa Media Watch/Jan. 1-15/1999. Hawkins offers a shoutout at the Editor-in-Chief of the African Times, C. Charles Anyiam, for giving him the opportunity to trip off to Cancun, Mexico, all expenses paid. The reasons why we (the travel editor of La Opinion and two other travel writers from Northern California) w...
Moments-in-Time, "Absurdities -- Observations"
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“Moments-in-Time - “Absurdities, Observations” Odie Hawkins Review: Heather Africa Media Watch/Dec. 1-15/1999. This one starts off with a sort of snarky, savage sarcasm. Like, if we’re going to have a “Thanks Giving Day” - a day that obliquely celebrates the ascendancy of the Europeans over the Native-Indigenous people. Then, he questions why shouldn’t we design a day to celebrate the inaugurat...
Moment in Time - "Planet Rhythms"
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“Moments-in-Time - “Planet Rhythms” Odie Hawkins Review: Heather Africa Media Watch/Nov. 15-30/1999. We have to give it to the brother; he is definitely not afraid to tackle huge subjects: “Planet Rhythms”. What could that be about? It didn’t take more than a few paragraphs for him to prove to us that he had a leg up on the subject. He kicked it off with this paragraph. “It’s all around us. We ...
Moments in Time, "Glances"
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“Moments-in-Time Glances...” Odie Hawkins Review: Heather Africa Media Watch/Oct. 15-30/1999. He always starts off in one direction and, inevitably, winds up going somewhere else. This column is no exception. He starts off with a hard glance at the government of President Ahmed Jejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, and a recently signed peace treat to end an eight year old civil war. GLANCE. King Leopo...
Teacher Zola's 4th Tutorial Tai Chi Fan
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Teacher Zola's 4th Tutorial Tai Chi Fan
Moments in Time To Them, it makes No News!
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Moments in Time To Them, it makes No News!
Moments-in-Time, "Kigali versus Kosovo"
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Moments-in-Time, "Kigali versus Kosovo"
Moments-in-Time --"At Last, Malawi Gets First TV Station"
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Moments-in-Time "At Last, Malawi Gets First TV Station"
Teacher Zola with the Dao...Teacher Odie on Congas
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Teacher Zola with the Dao...Teacher Odie on Congas
Moments-in-Time, "Akwaaba to Ghana, Snaps"
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Moments-in-Time, "Akwaaba to Ghana, Snaps"
Teacher Zola's 3rd Tutorial Section of Tai Chi Fan
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Teacher Zola's 3rd Tutorial Section of Tai Chi Fan
Thank you for this retrospective.
This professor is brilliant. His books, professor and person, are always a deep dive!👍
Thanks for this post
You're welcome
Descriptive, informative, and entertaining. Odie and Zola can sing!
Does he have an email, social media or how can we get in contact with Mr.Gifford ?
"What does the billboard say? 'Come and play. Come and play. Forget about the movement.'" - Rage Against The Machine
Please, our issues on the continent are with western costal africans who had a hand in our capture and torture. We should be focused on the inland where our ancestors once lived.
Cult and Culture only differ in numbers. Pay attention to the people that create, fund and politicize a culture. It is a method of control and they are the owners of that said culture.
The first contradiction to be addressed was the non-existence of such thing as african-american because it stands from a ridiculous argument that in theory could be applied to all humankind. They are just americans.
hello brother elder. Love the work. Can we interview you?
Wrong place at the wrong time. Right place at the right time. Both are indeed true. We're the same but obviously different. Touched by God both gifted. Our colors all shades of a beautiful cocoa base. Yet I ponder the truth behind the dark African face. Are our hearts are the same? Do they still beat in rhythm with the heart land? Or has the white mans touch eroded that like sand? Hair still nappy but does it curl the same? One can only guess and none truely know. Only way find out is to relax and enjoy the show?
One can guess, or one can seek to know. It is the same dichotomy at play, the same source that put crack in black communities, only to watch them fall apart from a survival induced violence and disorientation, is the same that put blood in the sand, created instability, and watched them fight amongst themselves whilst they left the homeland with various riches. What's failed to be realized, by the entire Diaspora, is that Compton is really Congo, Accra is Atalanta. What's emanated, in pitch, will never find its brother nor sister, if not allowed to synchronize in similar rhythms; oh yes the dissonance is indeed there, so shall we tear it down?
Do you really believe strangers were able to go into a country and steal that country's citizens? Yet that country never tried to locate or get its people back. That is mighty hard to believe.
@@carribgirl007 Are you referring to Guantanamo Bay? I'm not getting the reference.
@@teddycooper4390 I am referring to Africa. People were not taken from Africa. Africa gave its people away in exchange for money. Now they are luring the descendants of the people they traded for money back to build up the country. How come they never went looking for their people?
@@teddycooper4390 I am speaking of Africa. No one was stolen they were sold by Africa.
No such thing as "African American", they are black Americans who have nothing in common with Africans, except skin color. Centuries have cut that link. White Americans came from Europe but they aren't called European Americans, only blacks & Asians have that attached to them.
There is no such thing as a African American, that term was made up in the 80s to erase American Indians from our communities.
There is an issue between African and African-American in some cases. A lot of that is jealousy. I have seen Africans talk to Africans about being a slave and eating slave food and that’s crazy to me because the Africans come over here and eat the same food and then I found out that they eat the same food in Africa chicken, fish, rice, etc. But I don’t hear them talking about being colonized by a handful of white people. Because the Africans helped with slavery. The white people came back and colonize their entire country. Foolishness.
Respect to this beautiful "elder" couple from your Nigerian viewer. Peace and love to you.
I bet you 2 really entertained the neighbors, don't you.
You better hold on to her she looks like she's been Into the mushrooms again.
You and that cane that was the biggest bunch of phony baloney. I've ever seen in my life. You really need to leave the mushrooms alone.
Black people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge
Thanks for this interview This is the type of Elder writers I've been looking for I came up in the Vietnam War era is he still around I would like to contact him.I'm going try his website thanks Louisville, KY USA
I will love to talk with you on a porch :) Cheers brother man !
I love you guys
Cast my phone to my TV for better viewing while attempting to practice with you. I really only know Cane. Was just learning fan w/Mado and you. And tried sword a few times too.
Mahalo! I'll have to figure out how to cast my
This is so great.
21:48 Exactly. ANY book, by definition, has value. If a person can see their experience expressed on a page, it validates their existence - maybe, in some cases, for the first time. Elite academics who denigrate such prose have forgotten what "education" is supposed to be.
15:28 Oh BOY is that ever true!
Got my copy!
спасибо мастеру за его труд и красивые формы с саблей и веером 🙏
I read Hollow Daze. WILD book!
Hello! I'm going to transcribe this interview for the Princeton Archive. Stay warm!
Well Done
Thank you.
Thanks Baba
Welcome...
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Thanks
Mr. Hawkins, you and your lady are so awesome. Read your Spain book and loved it.
I came across your video and was very please that I did. Thank you for showing me a great combination moves that I can use in the streets and on my little brother, he is always bullying me.
Glad you enjoyed and learned from the video. Don't hur your brother so much that you two can't have fun together. Hopefully he will respect you more.
Zola, thank you for displaying and describing great details of Tai Chi Chuan 24. Bless you and your recovery. It is an amazing example of a healthy, fit life.
You are welcome. I didn't believe I could appreciate the health benefits more; but I do. Tai Chi Chuan plays a key role in my recovery this year from Bladder Cancer. It's important to do all you can to be healthy.
Yall R So AWESOME!!
Awesome
Legend! Mr Hawkins! 👑 💯
Odie Hawkins Is One Of The Greatest Writers.. Ive Ever Read! He Deserves His Respect! 💯
Great video, thanks for sharing :)
Zola, do you teach in person? If do, where and when?
Thank you, Zola.
I love to hear those old toast.
Thanks for your comment. Yes, those oldies but goodies.
💪🏿 Great to see you two together.
Thank you for sharing this, teacher Zola.
My pleasure!
Enjoyed that story, It sounds so real. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you guy’s I always keep in my hearth
We really, really miss you and hope you are doing well. You are prayed for. Hoping Life will be good for you. BRW we love your grandson Gerardo. He likes the ceiling fans in our house.
❤🥰🤩😍👌