{"id":366573,"date":"2021-10-29T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=220288"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:42:01","slug":"cry-the-beloved-country-the-roots-poetry-of-tijan-m-sallah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/29\/cry-the-beloved-country-the-roots-poetry-of-tijan-m-sallah\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry the Beloved Country: The Roots Poetry of Tijan M. Sallah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Bronx, the only New York City borough not situated on an island, The Gambia\u2014 the West African nation surrounded by Senegal, (except for the coast on the Atlantic)\u2014 usually has the definite article in its name. Like the Bronx, the Dutch colonized it, though not only the Dutch. The Gambia became a British  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/29\/cry-the-beloved-country-the-roots-poetry-of-tijan-m-sallah\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/29\/cry-the-beloved-country-the-roots-poetry-of-tijan-m-sallah\/\">Cry the Beloved Country: The Roots Poetry of Tijan M. Sallah<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/29\/cry-the-beloved-country-the-roots-poetry-of-tijan-m-sallah\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Bronx, the only New York City borough not situated on an island, The Gambia\u2014 the West African nation surrounded by Senegal, (except for the coast on the Atlantic)\u2014 usually has the definite article in its name. Like the Bronx, the Dutch coloniz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366740,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366573\/revisions\/366740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}