About

Mama ILU

Mama Ilu is an African, born in America and not by choice. She is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a great grandmother and a human mother to a cat, birds, turtles, and a herd of deer. (Since 2020, it seems their maternity ward is in the woods behind my house.) She is also Mama to countless students and young friends. Most of her life has been spent in school, having started at age three to the present with two brief hiatuses to spend a few years in sales, banking and brokerage. She actively supports just and righteous causes in the struggle for African Liberation and spends her spare time in the garden.

Radio Gillie is her first attempt at blogging in response to the recent tragic events involving the police and African Americans looming large in everyone’s mind. Public reactions to these and other overt threats of racism are coming fast and furious from many directions, sometimes ending in miscalculated misfortune. Long and deliberate thoughtful moments on statues and monuments eventually found their way to paper and now to this blog.

The name Radio Gillie is reminiscent of two childhood nicknames.