The poems in Reconnecting Memories are taken from our ancestral tree. Okantah explores what it means to be a black poet during hard times. The brother writes like the elder he is. There is wisdom in his words and a love for Africa in his heart. These poems cry like the birds we once heard in Eric Dolphy's horn. They are black and true.' - E. Ethelbert Miller, Editor, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century'