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REVIEW ’22: Our Father’s House… Nakumbuka

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – the long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Black Panther, which starred the late great Chadwick Boseman in the titular role, finally premiered on 11/11/22… Nakumbuka Day. Nakumbuka is a Swahili word meaning… Read More

“Shut This Down” ~ [P ft MJ]

Did you ever want to see that collab between Prince & MJ?! YouTuber Raphael Tavares delivers this mix of Pince’s “Shut This Down” [2015] as a soundtrack to MJ’s provocative moves in “Black or White” [1991]. Besides this… Read More

She of 7 Points

African Goddess Seshat was referred to as Sefket-Abwy – meaning “she of seven points” – by Pharaoh Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 BCE). She wears a signature seven-pointed crown which has led to speculation about the hidden Africa-centered significance of the crown… Read More

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Posted on January 13, 2020 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Oral Tradition, Shero's Journey

Age of Aquarius, Akashic Records, Amun, ancestral timelines, Ausar, Auset, Édouard de Laboulaye, Black Panther, Djehuti, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Golden Age, Gregorian calendar, Hekau, Heru, Ipet-Resyt, Khnum, Lady Liberty, Ma'at, Merkhet, Meshketiu, Mut, Per-ankh, Re, resurrection, Seshat, Set, Song of Songs, Tkhn, Tutankhamun

Messages in Maps… [re-post]

[CLICK TITLE BELOW TO LINK TO ORIGINAL 2/11/17 POST] Messages in Maps: Psychogeography, Cultural Ecology and the Prefigured Place Pop Medicine Travis Hedge Coke Ta-Nehisi Coates rewrote the map of Wakanda. Of all his work on Black Panther… Read More

Tut’ankh’amun ~ Reflections

“Be My Mirror”

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Posted on January 13, 2019 by malaika mutere

African Culture, afrofuturism, Hero's Journey, Storytelling

Akhenaten, Ankh, Aten, Black Panther, Buganda Kingdom, Kabaka, King Tut, Maziwa Mkuu, Mirror, musambwa, Neith, River Nile, Ryan Coogler, Seshat, Thebes, Tutankhamun, Tutankhaten, Uaset, ubuntu, Year of Return

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

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

Nyabingi ~ Oracle of the Drum & Warrior Queen

Queen Nyabingi is one of several likely inspirational fonts for Marvel’s comic book renderings of Wakanda’s Dora Milaje, an elite group of female bodyguards who will soon be slaying on the silver screen [2/16/18] in Ryan Coogler’s directorial rendition… Read More

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Posted on January 13, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Colonial Experience, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Reparations, Shero's Journey

Ausar, Auset, Babylon, Bagirwa, Black Panther, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, DJ Kool Herc, Dora Milaje, Ethiopia, Great Lakes, Haile Selassie, Hathor, Heru, hip-hop culture, Jamaica, Kemet, Kitami, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Marcus Garvey, Muhumusa, New Jerusalem, Nyabingi, Pan-Africanism, Queen Victoria, Rastafarianism, Reggae, Reparations, Rwanda, Scramble for Africa, Sekhmet, Seshat, Seth, Solomonic Dynasty, Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, Uganda, Wakanda, Zion

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

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