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“BaNtu Waltz ~ Nya’s Archangel Story”

Dear Reader, I am truly honored and excited to announce the release of my award-winning novel entitled “BaNtu Waltz: Nya’s Archangel Story”. I trust that it will find a broad and diverse audience, from those who would enjoy… Read More

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Posted on January 20, 2025 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Apartheid, Colonial Experience, Divine Twins, Feature, health communication, Hero's Journey, Imperialism, Indigenous Nations, Neocolonialism, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Reparations, S/Hero's Journey, Shero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling, Twin Souls, ubuntu

African American Music Appreciation, Bantu, Bantu Waltz, Divine Twins, I'll Be There, kinetic orality, master drummer, Michael Jackson, Motown, Nyabingi, Oral Aesthetics, oral tradition, Orion, sangoma, Sound of Young America, talking drum, talking drum motif, Thriller, Twin Flames, Twin Souls, ubuntu

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

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Posted on March 23, 2024 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Colonial Experience, Pan-Africanism, Quotes, S/Hero's Journey, Storytelling, ubuntu

Angola, Apartheid, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Ayi Kwei Armah, Bantu, Branford Marsalis, colonialism, Congo Square, Kuntu, Leon Carre, Louis Armstrong, manifest destiny, Neocolonialism, Osiris, Prince, Rumi, slavery, The Beautiful Ones, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, the white man's burden, ubuntu, western exceptionalism, Wynton Marsalis

A SaNgoma & Her Healing Path

The New/Golden Era is dawning! According to Age of Aquarius holdouts, this New/Golden Era will usher in a high-frequency, holistic unity-consciousness between human beings, & nurture an optimal co-dependent relationship with the organic environment as disclosed in the… Read More

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Posted on July 22, 2023 by malaika mutere

African Culture, afrofuturism, Apartheid, Colonial Experience, Imperialism, Indigenous Nations, Neocolonialism, New Age, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, S/Hero's Journey, Shero's Journey, ubuntu

5th Dimension, Age of Aquarius, Ahathoor Temple, Algeria, Amen-Ra Temple, Bagirwa, Bantu, Berlin Conference, Britain, Burkina Faso, Cleopatra's Needle, Congo River basin, Dendera Zodiac, Djehuti, Follow the Drinking Gourd, France, Galactic Codex, Ghana, Golden Age, grandmother of Europe, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, International Meridian Conference, Isis-Urania Temple, Louvre Museum, Mali, Maziwa Mkuu, Medicine Wheel, middle passage, milky way, Mountains of the Moon, Muhumusa, ngoma, Nyabingi, Osiris Temple, Prime Meridian, Rastafarianism, River Nile, River Thames, sangoma, Spain, Thutmose III, Togo, Triangular Slave Trade, Tuthmosis III, ubuntu, Victoria's Embankment

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“Towards a Transformation Communication Theory: UbuNtu, Prince, and the Oral-Aesthetic Perspective” was recently published in The Journalist SA. To read the article, click here: http://www.thejournalist.org.za/academic-papers/towards-a-transformation-communication-theory-ubuntu-prince-and-the-oral-aesthetic-perspective

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Posted on September 5, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music

African communication theory, Bantu, call-response motif, Hantu, Jazz motif, kimoyo, kinetic orality, Kintu, Kuntu, masquerade motif, mojo motif, Muntu, Nommo, Oral Aesthetics, Prince, Sankofa, talking drum motif, ubuntu

Panther Kings, Barkcloth & Milk

From ancient times to the present day, Africa’s collective imagination has to one degree or another been influenced by the leopard…[of which] the black panther is a melanstic color variant…

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Posted on April 21, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Tradition, Shero's Journey

Ankole cow, Ankole Kingdom, Bantu, barkcloth, Bastet, Black Panther, Buganda Kingdom, Bunyoro Kingdom, Busoga Kingdom, God Hapi, Hathor, Kabaka, Khemet, Mayanja, milky way, Mountains of the Moon, Mujaguzo Royal Drums, musambwa, Mutuba Tree, Nyabingi, Omugabe, Omukama, Papyrus of Hunefer, propofol, River Nile, Rwenzori Mountains, Sekhmet, Seshat, Toro Kingdom, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Uganda, Victorian matrix, Wakanda

KuNtu: A Well-Painted Home

I didn’t grow up a comic-book super-fan (more like occasional reader), nor grew to become enticed by Hollywood’s silver-screen adventures of super-heroes from the big-3 comic-book universes: Marvel, DC, and X-Men. Marvel’s recently-released trailer for the Black Panther… Read More

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Posted on July 22, 2017 by malaika mutere

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

Ausar, Auset, Bantu, Black Panther, Hathor, Heru, Kuntu, Ma'at, Marvel Studios, Mosi oa Tunya, Ndebele, Ndebele art, Set, ubuntu, Wakanda, Zimbabwe

Proverbs from the Temple of Amun~Mut~MuNtu

“KNOW THY SELF” is one of the cardinal concepts in ancient African sacred wisdom which underlie the Proverbs that are inscribed into the walls of Egyptian temples. Of the 6 great temples in that area, the 2 most… Read More

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Posted on June 25, 2015 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, Hero's Journey, Oral Tradition

African Proverbs, Amen, Amun, Bantu, Heaven, Heru, Horus, Ipet-Isut, Ipet-Resyt, Karnak, Khonsu, Know Thyself, Lions Gate, Lions Gate Portal, Luxor, Ma'at, Montu, Muntu, Mut, Set, The Path of God, Thebes, Waset

Bantu Roadmaps… The Motown Connection

“You went to school to learn, girl Things you never, never knew before Li-i-ike “I-before-E-except-after-C” And why “2-plus-2-makes-4” Na… na… Now… I’m gonna teach you, All about love…” (J-5)

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Posted on December 22, 2011 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music

ABC, Absalom Mutere, Bantu, Berry Gordy, Black Studies, call-response, Civil Rights, Clarence Carter, Freedom Train, Independence, Jackson 5, James Carr, John S. Mbiti, Kenya, Kenya High School, kimoyo, masquerade, matriarchal aesthetics, Michael Jackson, mojo, Motown, Nina Simone, Nommo, oral-aesthetic, Otis Redding, Play songs, Sound of Young America, ubuntu, Young Gifted and Black

Bantu Roadmaps… Random Connections

“Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it UBUNTU… It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness,… Read More

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Posted on December 1, 2011 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition

Bantu, British Invasion, David Livingstone, Desmond Tutu, Ebonics, Egyptian Mysteries, Henry Morton Stanley, hero's journey, John Hanning Speke, Joseph E. Holloway, Makerere University, masquerade motif, mojo, Nakasero Primary School, oral-aesthetic, Sheng, ubuntu, Uganda

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“BaNtu Waltz ~ Nya’s Archangel Story”

The Beautiful Beautyful Ones

A SaNgoma & Her Healing Path

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Panther Kings, Barkcloth & Milk

KuNtu: A Well-Painted Home

Proverbs from the Temple of Amun~Mut~MuNtu

Bantu Roadmaps… The Motown Connection

Bantu Roadmaps… Random Connections

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