Location: Jamaica
Member Since:
Nov. 28, 2016
Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Biography
Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama is International Fellow and Curator at the Flensburger Schifffahrtsmuseum, tasked with formulating an African-Caribbean analysis of Danish Colonialism and Legacy in Flensburg, the Virgin Islands of the United States and Ghana.
With a Ph.D. is in Development Studies and Masters degree in Women and Development Studies, Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama has lectured across a broad range of disciplines and on a number of topics including: feminist methodology/epistemology, action research and the policy process, the culture of Rastafari and African religious retentions in the Caribbean, thought and action in the African Diaspora, Dancehall, sex and religious ideology and culture and community development, as well as being invited to give special lectures on colonial history, violence and gender and development issues and Rastafari at institutions around the world.
Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama is the author of: Blood, Bullets and Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica’s Poverty Line, Up For Air: This Half Has Never Been Told (an award-winning novel; https://youtu.be/qQNYGjRFlwk) and Lead in the Veins (poetry) as well as several book chapters and articles. She is also a multimedia journalist who has produced several audio-visual documentaries including ‘Setting the Skin Tone’, which explores the catastrophic social practice of skin bleaching (https://youtu.be/VNwIZ_xHjm0). This eight-and-a half minute video documentary (produced in 2006) is an excerpt from her Doctoral research.
With a Ph.D. is in Development Studies and Masters degree in Women and Development Studies, Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama has lectured across a broad range of disciplines and on a number of topics including: feminist methodology/epistemology, action research and the policy process, the culture of Rastafari and African religious retentions in the Caribbean, thought and action in the African Diaspora, Dancehall, sex and religious ideology and culture and community development, as well as being invited to give special lectures on colonial history, violence and gender and development issues and Rastafari at institutions around the world.
Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama is the author of: Blood, Bullets and Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica’s Poverty Line, Up For Air: This Half Has Never Been Told (an award-winning novel; https://youtu.be/qQNYGjRFlwk) and Lead in the Veins (poetry) as well as several book chapters and articles. She is also a multimedia journalist who has produced several audio-visual documentaries including ‘Setting the Skin Tone’, which explores the catastrophic social practice of skin bleaching (https://youtu.be/VNwIZ_xHjm0). This eight-and-a half minute video documentary (produced in 2006) is an excerpt from her Doctoral research.
Where to buy in print
Books
Up for Air: This Half Has Never Been Told!
by Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 31,120.
Language:
English.
Published: June 18, 2022
by
Beaten Track Publishing.
Categories:
Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
Imani Tafari-Ama's Up for Air is a fictional retelling of events surrounding the Tivoli Gardens incursion of May 2021 – an imaginative conjuring from facts too gruesome to be believed and too horrific to remain hidden.
Blood, Bullets and Bodies
by Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 169,360.
Language:
English.
Published: June 8, 2017
by
Beaten Track Publishing.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies, Nonfiction » Social Science » Violence in Society
The true story of Blood, Bullets and Bodies: a critical multimedia exposé of the historical circumstances that have made crime and violence – bullets, blood and dead bodies – the number one problem in late 20th and early 21st century Jamaica.
Lead in the Veins
by Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 4,370.
Language:
English.
Published: November 28, 2016
by
Beaten Track Publishing.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Civil & human rights, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Political
Lead in the Veins is Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama's critical synopsis of development concerns confronting Jamaica - including unresolved issues of colonialism; political complicity, masculinity and the discourse of violence. Passion, love and loss also take their place in this fast-paced text, while the final words are devoted to an exploration of philosophical and existential questions.