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The Beautyful Ones…

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah’s debut novel (published in 1968), owes its title to the misspelled inscription on a bus in Ghana where the story is set. It opens during the final months in… Read More

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Posted on October 29, 2024 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Colonial Experience, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Reparations, slavery, Storytelling

Akenaten, Amarna Period, American exceptionalism, Amun, Angola, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Ayi Kwei Armah, Branford Marsalis, Chinua Achebe, Congo Square, Fathia Nkrumah, Heru, Kuntu, Kwame Nkrumah, manifest destiny, Nefertiti, Osiris, Pan-Africanism, Prince, Queen Elizabeth II, Sankofa, Set, The Beautiful Ones, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Wynton Marsalis

African American Music Appreciation Month

🪘🪘🪘 “Every man must act in the Rhythm of His Time. Such is Wisdom… Routine & Prejudice distort Vision. Each man thinks his own Horizon is the limit of the World… In every vital activity, it is the… Read More

The Beautiful Beautyful Ones

SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: March 14, 2016 ∴ March 23, 2024 [Gregorian] “People need images. Lacking them, they invent idols. Better then to found the images on Realities that lead the True Seeker to the Source…… Read More

UbuNtu ~ On Owning Your Masters

“If you don’t own your masters, your masters own you.” On his B’Earth’Day [June 7th] in 1993, Prince changed his name to the unpronounceable ‘Love Symbol’ of his recently released 14th studio album following disagreements with Warner Brothers… Read More

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Posted on June 7, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, New Age, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Reparations

afrofuturism, Ankh, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Beatles, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Bill Haley, Chaos and Disorder, Comparative Musicology, Elvis Presley, Emancipation, ethnomusicology, Etta James, Fats Domino, Fred Parris, Georgia Gibbs, Grand Arcanum, Hantu, Heru, Hieros Gamos, hunter-gatherer, Kuntu, Little Richard, Love Symbol, Magnum Opus, Masters, Musicology, New Age, New Power Generation, Pat Boone, Prince, Race Music, Rolling Stones, Set, Song of Songs, ubuntu, Warner Brothers

Water Bearers & New Age Libations

“When the moon is in the 7th House… And Jupiter aligns with Mars… Then peace will guide the planets… And love will steer the stars… This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…” [Lyrics from “Age of Aquarius”… Read More

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Posted on May 12, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, New Age, Pop Music, Reparations, Shero's Journey

3D, 4D, 5D, 5th Dimension, Age of Aquarius, Akashic Records, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Book of Life, End Times, libations, Luxor Temple, Maziwa Mkuu, New Age, Pisces, River Nile, Set, ubuntu, Water Bearer

Panther ~ Black Rite-of-Passage

“Great, another broken white boy for us to fix!” One of several funny lines from Black Panther delivered by Shuri in reference to CIA Agent Everett Ross. “What the hail!” My line when I left the theater on… Read More

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Posted on February 23, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Reparations, Shero's Journey, Storytelling

art-for-life's-sake, Black Panther, Black Studies, Djehuti, Dora Milaje, Kwame Nkrumah, Luxor Temple, Nyabingi, Patrice Lumumba, Rites-of-Passage, Scramble for Africa, Seshat, Shuri, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth featured article

The National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth (NCFY) featured article on September 3rd, 2015 is entitled “What Type of Messages Motivate Homeless Youth to Meet Their Health Needs?” Click on the link to read NCFY’s summary on “What its about… Why read it…… Read More

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