A MAN'S WORLD

DR. NZINGA IS HIS STAR STUDENT. IN 1981 SHE ENROLLED  IN HIS THEATRE CLASS AT LANEY COLLEGE, OAKLAND AND PERFORMED IN HIS PLAY IN THE NAME OF LOVE. SHE NOT ONLY LEARNED HIS DRAMATURGY BUT OBSERVED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH WOMEN OVER FOUR DECADES. HE HAS AUTHORIZED HER TO WRITE HIS OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY. 


This pic captures the misogynist/feminist at his best, the Laney College panel on Women Poets in the Black Arts Movement that he produced. One cannot deny these are some of the most powerful women in America, and especially in the Bay Area: Elaine Brown, Chairwoman of Black Panther Party, Halifu Osumare, Choreographer, co-founder of the Black Arts Movement and  Malonga Arts Center; Judy Juanita, author, professor, Editor of the Black Panther Party Newspaper; Portia Anderson, Seattle WA activist; Phavia Kuchagulia, poet, musician, dancer, scholar, activist; Aries Jordan, student poet of Marvin X.



 Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Marvin X and Hunia Bradley at the Master Poet's retreat where he lived and wrote in solitude during five years to heal from the death of his partner, Masha Satterfield, and the suicide of his son, Darrel. He wrote five books during his five years of solitude, broken with this visit by Ayo and Hunia. It was also broken when he was visited by Nisa Bey who came to get the poet to write her autobiography entitled Seven Years in the House of Elijah Muhammad.


She made her transition while the poet spoke at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2019. During his poetry reading he broke down in tears as he recalled his dear friend.




Dr. Ayodele Nzinga "moved on up" from her mentorship under Marvin X to be in residence
at the Flight Deck Theatre, 1540 Broadway, downtown Oakland, where she became the first
theatre group in the world to complete the August Wilson cycle of plays in chronological order. This accomplishment, says her Master Teacher, qualifies her for the title "Theatre Diva of the Bay!"