{"id":2821,"date":"2013-03-04T19:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2015-08-18T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:56:53","slug":"meet-charlotte-oneal-aka-mama-c-who-will-be-performing-at-women-of-the-world-talking-about-a-revolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/meet-charlotte-oneal-aka-mama-c-who-will-be-performing-at-women-of-the-world-talking-about-a-revolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Charlotte O’Neal aka ‘Mama C’ who will be performing at ‘Women of the World: Talking about a Revolution’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mama<\/a>Mama C was greatly influenced in her early years by the jazz, blues and gospel that Kansas City is famous for and integrates elements of that experience in both her music and the rhythm of her poetry along with the African beats and hip hop vibe of her spirit.
\nShe explores the reality of her life as a Diaspora born African who has lived most of her years in Tanzania in many of her poems, one of the most famous being \u201cI Almost Lost Myself\u201d.
\n\u201cAs a member of the Black Panther Party I was taught the importance of building international solidarity among all people while honoring my Ancestral roots. That philosophy has never changed and many of my poems and songs reflect this burning desire and mission to spread peace, love and unity through my art\u201d, Mama C reflects. \u201cThe spontaneous release of love that comes from poetry and music and art, in general\u2026 that thing that binds us all together and builds solidarity and understanding among all people no matter where they are from or what language they speak, is like magic!\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Her song writing and performing talents have been showcased on stage, television and radio in many cities in Africa and in America during the annual UAACC Heal the Community Tour.\u00a0 She launched her book of poetry, Warrior Woman of Peace<\/b> in 2008 and plans to launch her second book of poetry titled Life Slices\u2026a Taste of My Heaven<\/b>, in 2013. \u00a0Mama C debuted several of her newest poems during the Poetry Africa Tour 2010 to Cape Town, South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe and Blantyre, Malawi and \u00a0the 14th<\/sup> Annual Poetry Africa Festival in Durban, all sponsored by the Creative Arts Center at University of kwaZulu Natal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mama C is Co Director along with George Kyomoshulu, of the newly established Arusha Poetry Club<\/b> in Arusha, Tanzania which serves as a platform for East African poets and artists around the planet. She recently completed her 4th<\/sup> music\/spoken word album produced at Peace Power Productions studio at UAACC and she has directed and appeared in several music videos featuring East African artists.
\nhttp:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mamac2011<\/a>
\nYouTube channel:\u00a0 mamacharlotteuaacc<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Mama C and Pete O\u2019Neal are the subjects of two award winning documentaries about their lives and activism including American Exile<\/b> narrated by Hollywood actress Alfre Woodard and the PBS documentary, A Panther in Africa<\/b> by Aaron Matthews and she is one of the featured artists along with M1 of deadprez in a newly released documentary on art and activism by Michael Wanguhu titled Ni Wakati.<\/b> http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/itvs\/globalvoices\/pantherinafrica.html<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.niwakatithefilm.com\/<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[221,170,171,222,223],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-charlotte-oneal","tag-international-womens-day","tag-iwd","tag-mama-c","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMeet Charlotte O'Neal aka 'Mama C' who will be performing at 'Women of the World: Talking about a Revolution' - The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/meet-charlotte-oneal-aka-mama-c-who-will-be-performing-at-women-of-the-world-talking-about-a-revolution-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Charlotte O'Neal aka 'Mama C' who will be performing at 'Women of the World: Talking about a Revolution' - 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