Ngoma Hill

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and paradigm shifter, who for over 40 years has used culture as a tool to raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought.

A former member of the SPIRIT HOUSE MOVERS AND PLAYERS with Amiri Baraka and the Contemporary Freedom Song Duo, SERIOUS BIZNESS, Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution for a just and peaceful world. Ngoma was the Prop Slam winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT and was published in AFRICAN VOICES MAGAZINE, LONG SHOT ANTHOLOGY, THE UNDERWOOD REVIEW, SIGNIFYIN’ HARLEM REVIEW, BUM RUSH THE PAGE/DEF POETRY JAM ANTHOLOGY,POEMS ON THE ROAD TO PEACE (Volumes 1,2 & 3)-Yale Press and LET LOOSE ON THE WORLD:CELEBRATING AMIRI BARAKA at 75,Blind Beggar Press 35th AnniversaryAnthology Issue and The Understanding between Foxes and Light. He was featured in the PBS Spoken Word Documentary, “The Apro-Poets” with Allen Ginsberg,and was recently initiated as a Priest of Ifa in Ibadan,Nigeria.He is also a Reiki 2 Practitioner trained at Yale University School of Nursing .His newest CD-“Lessons from the Book of Osayemi” is available on CDBaby.com, iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp.

He is a member of the Canvas of Words Poetry Tour that kicks off January 2015.