Teaching Career
Sundiata taught writing at New School in New York City . DiFranco was one of his students and claimed at the time of his death that Sundiata "taught me everything I know about poetry."
Mike Doughty also studied under Sundiata in DiFranco's class. He wrote "Screenwriter's Blues" which was a minor hit for his band Soul Coughing in the 1990s, while studying in Sundiata's class.
Another musician/poet who studied with Sundiata (at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts) was Spin Doctors' lead singer Chris Barron. In fact, it was Sekou that coined the name "Spin Doctors" for the newly formed band in 1988/89.
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