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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

RETURN…

Amidst speculation in certain quarters about a great Return and global re-set around that event, I find myself longing for the organic frequency I imagine existed before the last great patriarchal re-set around the ‘matrix’ of a Mediterranean… Read More

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Posted on March 3, 2022 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Reparations, Shero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling

Age of Aquarius, alphabet, Amun-Re, Aristotle, Ausar, Auset, Bob Marley, Carl Sagan, Changing of the Gods, Chuck D, Congo Square, demotic, DJ Kool Herc, Djehuti, Drum Circle, Duke of Edinburgh, Heru, hieratic, hip-hop, Ipet-Resyt, jazz, Kemet, Khmt, Kmt, Ma'at, Marshall McLuhan, Nyabingi, Plato, Pluto, Pluto's Return, Prince Philip, Rastafarianism, Sema Tawy, Set, Shulamite, Song of Songs, Temple of the World, Tkhn, Trojan Horse, True Seeker, ubuntu, Uranus, Wynton Marsalis

Congo Square ~ UbuNtu & the Unbroken Circle

“Every strand of American music comes directly from Congo Square,” musician and trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis once said of this national treasure – the historic birthplace of Jazz and Rhythm-‘n’-Blues.

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Posted on September 23, 2018 by malaika mutere

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

bamboula, calinda, carabine, code noir, Congo Square, jazz, Jazz Age, Jazz motif, juba, manifest destiny, ubuntu

Master Drummers ~ The Gods Are Awake!

“Strummin’ my pain with his fingers, singin’ my life with his words… Killin’ me softly with his song…” (Roberta Flack). In Africa it is said that each person has a rhythm to which they alone dance. Women… Read More

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Posted on February 14, 2013 by malaika mutere

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

Congo Square, funk, Grammy Award, hero's journey, hip-hop, jazz, Jazz Age, master drummer, Motown, rhythm-and-blues, soul, talking drum motif, ubuntu

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The Beautyful Ones…

RETURN…

Congo Square ~ UbuNtu & the Unbroken Circle

Master Drummers ~ The Gods Are Awake!

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