Book Review: ‘Scribes of Redemption: Letters from an Incarcerated Father to His Incarcerated Son’ by Ahjamu Baruti


Life is funny like that: the road we take, Serling’s signpost ahead, the mis-directed arrow with no  GPS capability, point indiscriminately missed. This is it - the lesson - deeply imbedded in Ahjamu Baruti’s collected notes, Scribe’s of Redemption: Letters from an Incarcerated Father to His Incarcerated Son. Baruti’s letters are passionate and profoundly insightful; his sociopolitical observations pensive and intellectual, tender and sharp. He is a scholar, …