Word: mustaphas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Board of Laborers, a group chaired by Farrakhan's chief of staff and son-in-law Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad. Sources close to the Nation of Islam say none of the candidates have the requisite religious credentials to lead the Nation, including Leonard Muhammad, Farrakhan's son Mustapha, 39, or younger daughter Donna, who is married to Leonard. Farrakhan's personal physician, Abdul Alim Muhammad, and former N.A.A.C.P. president Ben Chavis, who is a recent convert to Islam and heads the New York mosque, have similar problems with religious credentials...
...AUTHOR: MUSTAPHA MATURA...
...know that ancestral tongues or patois, even when they survive, could not reach a wide audience, while English puts them on a world stage. When John Millington Synge wanted to portray hatred of England's dominance in his native Ireland, he nonetheless wrote in English rather than Gaelic. When Mustapha Matura depicts his native Trinidad, he uses English -- indeed, he has lived in England since 1961 -- although his plays acknowledge that it is the language of past slavery and present subordination to foreign culture...