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Callaloo 43.3, "Oya: The Wind is Our Teacher," is a gathering in honor of Audre Lorde. In these pages, lovingly curated by guest editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Courtney Desiree Morris, hurricane survivors share stories of transformation, resilience, and deep ancestral connection. The issue honors Oya, the Yoruba Orisha of winds, storms, and radical change.

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Callaloo is proud to announce the appointment of six new Genre Editors: Tyree Daye (Co-Poetry Editor), Safia Elhillo (Co-Poetry Editor), Claire Jiménez (Co-Fiction Editor), Kei Miller (Co-Fiction Editor), Keenan Norris (Nonfiction).

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Founding Callaloo

Dr. Charles H. Rowell founded Callaloo in 1976 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With its emphasis on critical studies of the arts and humanities, as well as creative writing, Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide.

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"I, like you, come from a people who have fought — and continue to fight — in a long struggle. I know that we must not merely survive; we must triumph. The ancestors do not expect anything less."

- Dr. Charles H. Rowell