![]() His ailing mother and ever-absent father also contributed to his lost years in a great deal. Thus, it was not before long, that Malo found himself skin deep in a world which promised to ruin his life forever. In Uzi’s company Malo learned all that was there to be learnt about the big bad world of drugs, sex, violence and crime and soon after he left, Malo began frequenting the company of Philadelphia’s bad men. Asante) was not as easy as one would have fathomed.Īfter moving to America with his parents, he went through a bitter and ugly youth with his elder brother Uzi frequently getting arrested and finally sentenced for having sex with an under-age Caucasian whom he believed to be well above the legal age. Though born to successful parents, with his father being a renowned author and his mother running a famous dancing school in Zimbabwe, life for Malo (M.K. This memoir of his is an ode to his teen and youth years in Philadelphia, where he reminisces about his past, and about how he came through what was, possibly, the fatefully doomed years of his life. Asante has to his credit not one but three books, with Buck: A Memoir being his fourth. ![]() Son of the widely known Molefi Kete Asante, the famous African American scholar, historian and philosopher, best known for his work on African-American studies and writings on Afro-centricity, M.K. ![]() Asante is a household name in the United States. Zimbabwe-born American author, filmmaker, producer M.K. ![]()
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