Nubia Kai

Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam is an American playwright, poet, and novelist from Detroit, Michigan, who now lives in Washington, D.C.[1] A lecturer at various American universities, she has published Solos and I Spread My Wings And I Fly and contributed to journals such as Essence and The Black Scholar.

As a growing adult, Kai participated in events thrown by the Black Panther Party and other African American organizations through her art.

Later on, she published a children's book of short stories called The Sweetest Berry on the Bush in 1993.

She wrote a scholarly text called Kuma Malinke Historiography: Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samon Toure in 2014.

After writing Kuma Malinke Historiography, Kai published her most recent book called I Spread My Wings And I Fly in 2016.

Kai uses imagery of music, nature and other things to symbolize the sacred themes of African religions and spiritualities.

[4] I Spread My Wings And I Fly, published in 2016, is a historical novel about the maroons in the mid 1850s in southern Louisiana.

[5] This novel focuses on exploring the culture of enslaved Africans and the role of maroon warfare in the road to Emancipation.