Trinidad-born writer, scholar and publisher (born 1948)
Amon Saba Saakana
Born
Sebastian Clarke
1948 (age 75–76)
Trinidad and Tobago
Education
Mountview Theatre School; School of Oriental and African Studies; Goldsmiths College, University of London; Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Occupation(s)
Writer, journalist, lecturer, filmmaker and publisher
Known for
Founder of publishing company Karnak House
Website
amonsabasaakana.com
Amon Saba Saakana (born 1948), formerly known as Sebastian Clarke,[1][2] is a Trinidad-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.
^Emrit, Ronald C. "Amon Saba Saakana (aka Sebastian Clarke)". Best of Trinidad. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
^"Jah music : the evolution of the popular Jamaican song / Sebastian Clarke". Smithsonian.
AmonSabaSaakana (born 1948), formerly known as Sebastian Clarke, is a Trinidad-born writer, journalist, lecturer, filmmaker and publisher, who migrated...
(PDF). Record Mirror. 12 August 1967. p. 11. Retrieved 4 March 2021. AmonSabaSaakana and Sebastian Clarke (2009). Jah Music: The Evolution of the Popular...
pankhurst connection". RASTAFARI IN MOTION. Retrieved 8 November 2022. AmonSabaSaakana, "Makonnen, Ras", in David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds)...
Eric Huntley), Hansib (founded 1970), Karnak House (founded 1975 by AmonSabaSaakana), Black Ink Collective (founded in 1978), Black Womantalk (founded...
Restaurant, aiming to give young people vocational skills training. As AmonSabaSaakana has noted: "In 1977 Rhodan was instrumental with others in returning...
Jacqueline Rudet (born 1962) Shane Ryan (born 1969) Layla Saad (living) AmonSabaSaakana (living) Michael Salu (living) Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) June...
Springer is the subject of a 2010 film directed and produced by AmonSabaSaakana, entitled Ida's Daughter: The World of Eintou Pearl Springer. Springer...
in Antiquity: From Kmt, The Greco-Roman World to The Middle Ages AmonSabaSaakana 3 North Africa and the Origins of Epistemic Blackness Jesse Benjamin...
to attend the British School at Rome for a year (1971–72). Critic AmonSabaSaakana notes: "Branch had a first hand experience of the Renaissance masters...
Traditional Aesthetics, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. Saakana, AmonSaba, Colonization and the Destruction of the Mind: Psychosocial Issues...
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