Akwaaba (Fertility) Doll from Ghana kinara Oyster Knife Publishing is honored

Oyster Knife Publishing is honored to publish Oscar Brown Jr’s first ever collection of poetry and prose entitled What it Is: Poems and Opinions of Oscar Brown Jr

an African American doctor

mastered and used if we are to reclaim our correct role as warrior scholars in the battle to provide safe

This piece is a mudcloth design on a teeshirt in Black and White

appear during divination ritual

Akwaaba (Fertility) Doll from Ghana kinara Oyster Knife Publishing is honoredAn Akwaaba doll is a carved figure used by the Ashanti people of Ghana Ivory Coast as a talisman to promote fertility and and to protect pregnant women. A woman who hopes to become pregnant will keep such a blessed doll on her person, and will dress and care for it as one would a real child.