Ayodele "Wordslanger" Nzinga has an MFA in Writing & Consciousness from New College of California, SF, CA. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transformative Education & Change at California Institute of Integral Studies in SF, CA. She has published work in varying poetic formats and nonfiction under the name WordSlanger and Ayodele Nzinga.   "I write out of a love for words, the planet earth, black folk and other souls traveling in the journey called my life. I consider my self a modern day Griot. An oral historian with a computer. "