Personal Memoirs

After a lifetime of struggle with identification, segregation, integration, and spiritual and cultural self-discovery I awakened to find that all of the knowledge I had gathered amounted to no more than a voluminous collection of unorganized information. Not until I made the pilgrimage to the Motherland and sat at the feet of my indigenous African elders and ancestors did I realize the missing ingredient…



Blending real-life occurrences with beautifully articulated metaphor, author Kenneth Rodgers describes the joy, pain, confusion, and richness of life found in an African-American community. Not My Shadow chronicles one man’s journey of self-discovery on the streets of North Philadelphia in the sixties and seventies, during a time of great upheaval and social change. With wit, humor, and pulsating emotion, Rodgers shares his memories of church, school, and family; his thoughts on politics and society; and his growing-awareness of self; giving the reader an authentic picture of the African-American experience in a way that only one who has grown up in the community can achieve. Not My Shadow is a powerful expose of life in an urban American neighborhood and an intimate look at one man’s soul.

About the Author:



Kenneth W. Rodgers, Sr. holds degrees in education, history, philosophy, religion, and music and has over 20 years of experience in education, serving as a history professor, school principal, community/youth advocate, educational consultant, lecturer, and musician. He has five children and has been married to his wife, Blanca, for 22 years. Kenneth currently lives in Exton Pennsylvania, where he is the director of academics for a private boarding school and a professor of history and sociology at a New Jersey College.

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