Amon Saba Saakana, formerly known as Sebastian Clarke, is a

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-born writer, journalist, lecturer, filmmaker and publisher, who migrated to Britain in 1965. In the 1970s he founded the publishing imprint Karnak House in London. As an author, his books encompass poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and works on cultural and historical topics.

Biography

Education and early career

Born Sebastian Clarke in

, he migrated as a teenager in 1965 with his six siblings to England, where their parents had come to work in a London factory. He studied playwriting at Mountview Theatre School (1966–1967), began visiting

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in 1968 and connecting with Caribbeans and Africans there, then for four years 1970 he lived in the United States, going there at the invitation of

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, who had been in London for the production of some of his plays. In a 2019 interview Saakana said: "Bullins also got me a job at Marymount College, a girls' school, as a drama tutor, and also got me a job as assistant editor at the New York Festival Public Theatre which went into publishing two drama journals, one for play scripts, the other for reviews, features, interviews and performance." On returning in 1974 to London from the US, where he had also been inspired by the theatre work of

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(later Amiri Baraka), Saakana became a contributor to the drama magazine '' Plays & Players'', and one of his plays, ''Soul of the Nation'', was produced at the

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in 1975, and ]moved to

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for a two-week run. Saakana was part of what Paul Breman described as "London's very active black literature scene of the early 1970s", which included the

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'', and he was the founding editor of the journal ''Frontline''. He also contributed to other international publications including ''

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'', and ''Bendel Times'' (Nigeria). His contribution towards the making of the BBC TV documentary ''Reggae'' (1971), directed by

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, led Saakana to write his first nonfiction book, ''Jah Music: The Development of Jamaica Popular Music'' (1980), which was the first history of Jamaican popular music. In 1982 he earned a Diploma of Higher Education in Caribbean Studies from the

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, followed by an MA in Caribbean literature from the same university (1988). His master's thesis was subsequently published as ''Colonialism & the Destruction of the Mind: Psychosocial issues of race, sexuality, class and gender in the novels of Roy Heath'' (1997). Saakana also studied at the

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and at

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, where in 1995 he obtained his Ph.D. in Drama & Cultural Studies. He received a certificate (distinction) and diploma (merit) in Egyptian Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (1996–1998).

Karnak House

In 1975 Saakana founded the publishing company Karnak House, initially as Caribbean Cultural International (CCI), "an organization of writers and artists coming together to create a new platform for the work of Caribbean and Black British writers and artists in Britain." CCI was inspired by the work of

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, who founded a facility known as Spirit House in Newark, New Jersey. Saakana sought out a four-storey rent-free building from the

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and turned it into an arts centre, located since 1977 in Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill, and renamed as Karnak House. The centre "soon transcended its regional perspective and included work by Africans in any geographical location as well as progressive Europeans of any nationality, a model well preceded by

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in Paris." Karnak House put on exhibitions, conducted classes in African languages and organized lectures as well as conferences, involving a wide range of creatives and intellectuals from the African diaspora, including Alem Mezgebe, Emmanuel Jegede, Charles Sambono, Babatunde Banjoko, Seheri Sujai,

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, Lance Watson, Norman Reid, and Vernon St. Hilaire. Karnak House began publishing in 1979. Its stated objectives are "to continuously locate and publish books by Caribbean and African writers in the field of creative fiction and poetry" and "to renew and reinterpret African civilizations through the prism of Africans themselves or progressive writers of any ethnic background." The imprint's first publication was ''New Planet'', an anthology including both new and previously published poets such as
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and
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. Among notable titles that Saakana has published is ''I is a Long-memoried Woman'' by
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, which won the
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in 1983. Karnak House authors have also included
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, Ifi Amadiume,
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, Jan Knappert,
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,
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,
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, and Jacob Carruthers. In 1985 Karnak House organised its first major international conference under the title ''The Afrikan Origin of Civilization'', which featured
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as the primary speaker, along with Ivan Van Sertima, and
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. This led to Diop being brought to the US, being granted the key to the city of
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by Mayor
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, and receiving wide coverage for his visit. The continuing difficulties facing Black publishing houses such as Karnak House,
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and others, including access to coverage on the books pages of the mainstream press, were highlighted by Saakana in a 1988 ''
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'' article, which concludes: "Whatever the problems that have confronted the black press in London, it has injected into the mainstream an imaginative and dramatic body of diverse literature. ... Perhaps, then, indigenous black publishers have stirred the imagination of the mainstream and created an atmosphere, through conferences, forums, book fairs, etc., in which the black writer can be seen as an economic asset to a previously flagging British publishing industry." Alongside his work as commissioning editor of Karnak House, Saakana is an independent scholar and does research in Philosophy, Literary Theory and African World Literatures.

Writing
Saakana's own books include poetry collections, the first study on Jamaican popular music, entitled ''Jah Music'' (1980), a 1985 novel ''Blues Dance'' (reviewing which
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wrote in ''
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'': "It is a harrowing book, bloody and violent, frightening and often mystifying, but through it all there is a surprising kind of optimism"), and works of literary criticism such as ''The Colonial Legacy in Caribbean Literature'', as well a notable work on Guyanese novelist
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, entitled ''Colonialism and the Destruction of the Mind'' (1997).

As lecturer
Saakana has lectured at many educational institutions in Britain and the US, including the
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, the
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,
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;
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,
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, Staten Island Community College,
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, and the
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. He also lectured at the
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Media work
Saakana directed and produced the films ''Texturing the Word: 40 Years of Caribbean Writing in Britain'' (1985, featuring
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Edward Brathwaite The Honourable Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, D ...
,
Roy Heath Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer who settled in the UK, where he lived for five decades, working as a schoolteacher as well as writing. His 1978 novel '' The Murderer'' won the ''Guardian'' Fictio ...
,
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,
Grace Nichols Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, ''I is a Long-Memoried Woman'' (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In D ...
,
Marc Matthews Marc Matthews (born 1940s) is a Guyana, Guyanese writer, actor, broadcaster and producer. Biography Marc Matthews was born in British Guiana in the 1940s. He received, he reports, "a mid-Victorian education" at Queen's College, Guyana, Queen's Coll ...
), and ''Ida's Daughter: The World of
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'' (2010). He has also worked in various capacities on productions for the
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Selected bibliography
* ''Sun-Song'' (poetry), Paul Breman Ltd, 1973 * (As Sebastian Clarke) ''Jah Music: The Evolution of the Jamaican Popular Song'',
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, 1980, * ''Blues Dance'' (novel), Karnak House, 1985 * ''Tones & Colours'' (poetry), Karnak House, 1985 * ''The Colonial Legacy in Caribbean Literature'' (Preface by
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), Karnak House, 1987 * ''Colonialism & the Destruction of the Mind: Psycho-social Issues of Race, Religion, Sexuality & Gender in the Novels of Roy Heath'', Karnak House, 1997 * ''God In The Song of Birds'', 2016 * ''Djehuty/Hermes: Foundational Philosopher In The Italian Renaissance'', Karnak House, 2020 .

References

External links

Official website

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