Still Living on my Feet (Perfect Paperback)

Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep within the trough of her Y chromosomes; lacing it with truths, humor and sisterly compassion. Still uncompromising, Ms. Chinyelu overtly articulates the primacy of black women without negating their compliment, black men. Using a sentence she coined a while back; the line of my back needed straightening more than my hair, as her muse, Tichaona retraces the spiritual experience she had in her early twenties revolving around the grandmother she never met. Drawing on her desire to respond righteously, she encapsulated that experience of love and consciousness to produce the progressive, relevant and textured writings of Still Living on my Feet.

Author Bio

Tichaona Chinyelu is a daughter of Afrika in both the biographical and political sense. Her parents were born and raised in Afrika and she views the world through the prism of Pan-Afrikanism. Tichaona currently lives in Massachusetts. She is also the author of two books of poetry: In the Whirlwind and Still Living on my Feet.