- National Winner!
- "Best
College Diversity Program of 2001 & 2002!"
"2002 Performing Artist of the Year" (2005 Finalist)
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- Kijana!
- Audience Comments...
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Thank you for ...performing on a very emotional
and patriotic day, September 11, 2002....Your performance
"A Tribute to Freedom, 9/11" with Michael Rex and Carlos
was an inspiration to us all. When you sang the "STAR
SPANGLED BANNER" you could have heard a pin drop. Our
Commons has never been so quiet. When you reached the part about
"the flag was still there" and raided those two flags,
I actually got goose bumps and I started crying, at that point
I turned and one of our police officers had dears in his eyes.
WOW!!!
-Sharon Alewine, Office of Student
Activities,
Tomball College, Tomball,
TX
Thank you for your stunning performance today at Shell
during our International Festival. It is really good to see a
sister who is able to incorporate a diverse audience into her
performance and touch so many in literally minutes. During your
performance, I felt a great sense of pride and wanted to personally
thank you for your time, talent and energy. You have been blessed
with the tremendous gifts of song, inspiration and healing. Continue
in your walk to enlighten others in diversity.
As we embark upon this continuous journey at Shell, I'm sure
your performance will allow many of us the opportunity to dialogue
with our colleagues and hopefully make a difference as you have
for me today.....Thanks,
Pamela Husband
Consultant - Unix Services
Shell Information Technology International Inc.
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She really WOWS the audience. Kijana related the Griot
performance back to the subject of cultural diversity time and
again... She hits on topics that are common to all people...it
never hurts to hear it in a different way...PERFECT!
-Claire Jordan,
Student Activity Director,
Hillsborough Cmty College,
Plant City, Florida
- "God Bless the
Chile" ...That's
Got His Own. Kijana teases the audience with a bountiful moneyfan
at Berry College, Mt. Berry,
Georgia.
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- "Oh Freedom"
at Spartanburg Methodist College, Spartanburg, NC.
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Dear Kijana,
I am still talking about the wonderful experience you provided
at HCC-Ybor Campus today. I was honored to have some time
to speak with you and to enjoy your wonderful wit and the recounting
of your adventures and experiences on your travels. The benefit
to our students is truly incalculable. Who knows what you have
inspired in them. Again, my thanks for the experience of YOU!!
You are wonderful and so very, very alive. I hope you managed
to wake-up some of our sleepy folk.
-Carlton Williams, Evening Campus Manager
HCC-Ybor Campus
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- FANTASTIC SHOW! What a delightful trip through history
with song and stories. The students enjoyed participating and
learning at the same time. We just loved your voice! Thanks for
sharing such a wonderful performance.
-Joan Buchanan,
Coordinator of Student Activities, Bluefield State University,
Bluefield West Virginia
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- Kijana Wiseman is a character the likes of which you won't
run across more than once or twice in this lifetime. In fact,
just knowing there's even one person like her in this world is
both shocking and exciting!...a woman posessed to just bursting
with life and song.
-Stacey Smith
Segovia, "GO!" Staff Writer, New Leaf Chronicle,
Clarksville, Tennessee
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- "JazzLadies"
at Jacksonville State University.
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Kijana's "The Griot" was fantastic
and entertaining!! She held the audience in the palm of her
hand while explaining history from a great perspective!!
-Roy C. Lightfoot, Central Florida
Community College
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- The Griot highlights the brightness of education.
- A good way to spoon feed culture. A great show!
-Imani D. Asukile,
District Coordinate,
Pasco Hernando
Commuity College,
Dade City, Fl
- "Steal Away"
Using spirituals and an audience full of slaves to help a fellow
slave named Moses run away from "Massa" during a performance
at Berry College, Mount Berry, GA...2/5/01
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- Everyone enjoyed the show! ...Thanks for a terrific experience!
- -Jennifer Newlin, AYA Instructor,
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas
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- Outstanding! She got the students attention and sent
a clear message. We could use more teachers of this nature.
-Danny Johnson, Central Florida
Community College
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- Kijana after her Women's
Month Griot program with the Student Activities staff of the
University of Michigan, Flint Michigan...3/22/01
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- Kijana was excellent! Everyone had a great time and are
still talking about it! Kijana is the nicest, easiest performer
I've ever had the pleasure to work with!
-Amanda J. Griffith,
CPB President,
University of Michigan-Flint, MI
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- Peppered with a little political satire, history and personal
experience, Wiseman took her audience from the beginning of time,
with the first wedding of the "whole word" in Africa,
to the present, with song.
-Karlayne R.
Parker, Staff Writer,Tampa Tribune
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- The Griot was amazing! She involved her audience
with an enthusiasm that kept people dancing in the rows.
- -Jennifer Russell, Pellissippi
State Techn., Knoxville TN
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- She is wonderful, and she holds the audience spellbound!
...Her performance was like a singing history lesson."
-Gail Bentley,
Floyd College, Rome Georgia
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- "''Ain'a That Good
News!" There's a whole lotta shakin'going on durng Kijana's
gospel shouting scene at Bluefield State College, Bluefield,
West Virginia..
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- Paying the babysitter
during "God Bless the Chile" at Abraham Baldwin College,
Tifton, Georgia.
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Dear Kijana,
I was at FCCJ today at your performance. I must say it was
quite inspiring. I really liked what you had to say about the
testing. The guy that I'm committed to never had to do that because
he was a virgin, but for me it was a little different, the guy
I dated before the one I'm dating now, seduced me with using
"I love you!" And he never meant it because we had
been dating only a few weeks when had said that. I myself have
had blood tests done and I'm ok. My longtime boyfriend and I
have been dating 2 yrs and 7 mths. We are talking about marriage,
but way in the future. Thank You again for your inspiring performance.
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Sincerly,
Tiena M.
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...Thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Wiseman's performance.
She is a joy. Her message is very relevant. Can say nothing but
good things about her show.
Florida Community College, Jacksonville,
FL
Dr. Valveta L. Turner
2/21/02
She is an incredible performer.
Tidewater Community College,
Norfolk, VA
M.A. Seidel-Adler
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Her program was well received and the
most attended program we have had on our campus this year. The
website was a great resource for promo.
Northern Virginia CC, Woodbridge,
VA
Melissa Ruffing
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