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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

A Master Drummer & His Healing Path

In Africa it is said that each person has a rhythm to which they alone dance. What I’ve learned about this cultural proposition is there is a journey involved in finding one’s rhythm that will likely take you… Read More

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Posted on August 8, 2023 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Apartheid, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Imperialism, Indigenous Nations, Neocolonialism, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Reparations, S/Hero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling, ubuntu

Afrika Bambaata, Age of Aquarius, Age of Faith, Age of Growth, Age of Law, Amun, Apartheid, Ascended Master, Ausar, Auset, Berlin Conference, chattel slavery, Cleopatra's Needles, DJ Kool Herc, DJ Qbert, Djehuti, Doudou N'Diaye Rose, Doug Pray, Drum Circle, E.A. Wallis Budge, France-US, Grammys, Grandmixer DXT, grandmother of Europe, Herbie Hancock, Heru, International Meridian Conference, Ipet-Resyt, Khmt, kumina, Lateran Obelisk, Ma'at, Mali, master drummer, Medicine Wheel, Minianka, Mut, Nyabingi, Queen of the South, Queen Victoria, Rastafarianism, Rockit, sangoma, Scramble for Africa, Scratch, Sefket-Abwy, Seshat, Set, She of Seven Points, Temple of the World, Thriller, Thutmose III, Tkhn, Tuthmose III, Tuthmosis III, Twin Tkhn, ubuntu, Victoria, Washington Monument, William Evarts, Yaya Diallo, Zulu Nation

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, eromenos, 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

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, Set, Solomonic Dynasty, Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, Uganda, Wakanda, Zion

“I AM ~ SOMEBODY!” – Graffiti as Cultural Text

“I Am – Somebody!” is a praise poem to African-Americans written in the 1950s by Reverend William H. Borders, Sr., Wheat Street Baptist Church pastor and civil rights activist. The poem is most often associated with the Reverend… Read More

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Posted on June 25, 2013 by malaika mutere

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

Bronx, DJ Kool Herc, Doze Green, graffiti, hip-hop culture, I Am Somebody, kinetic orality, master drummer, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. William H. Borders, TAKI 183, Watts, Wattstax

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