Lasana M. Sekou

[8] Sekou has presented papers and recited his poetry at cultural and literary conferences and festivals in the Caribbean, North and South America,[25] Africa, Europe[26] and Asia.

[30][31] Sekou can be heard reciting his own poetry on The Salt Reaper – Selected poems from the flats (Audio CD, 2009) with music produced by award-winning digital arts designer Angelo Rombley.

At House of Nehesi Publishers Sekou secured the publication of literary luminaries and pioneers such as George Lamming,[34] Kamau Brathwaite,[34] Amiri Baraka,[34] Tishani Doshi, Shake Keane,[34][35] Chiqui Vicioso,[36] Howard Fergus,[37] Marion Bethel,[38] and the Palestinian author Nidaa Khoury,[39] notable for her concept of post-monotheism.

A host of first-time and previously-published authors from St. Martin and other territories and countries such as Ian Valz, Charles Borromeo Hodge, Jennie N. Wheatley, Wendy-Ann Diaz, Jay Haviser, Laurelle Yaya Richards, Patricia G. Turnbull, Sara Florian, Yvonne Weekes, and N.C. Marks have also been published by HNP.

[40] In 2003, Sekou was invited to co-found the St. Martin Book Fair by its founder Shujah Reiph, a leading cultural activist and president of the Conscious Lyrics Foundation (CLF).