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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

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

Hathor ~ Mansion of Heru

Hwt-hr is the Kemetic version of Hathor, meaning ‘Mansion of Heru.’ Indeed, as Heru’s divine consort, Hathor is regarded as the sky in which he – as the sun god and “Djedi Sky Walker”/ Dancer – dwells. Hathor is… Read More

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Posted on February 14, 2017 by malaika mutere

Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Reparations, Shero's Journey

Amun, Auset, Dendera, Hathor, Heru, Luxor, Ma'at, Mut, Sekhmet, Temple In Man

Purple Reign ~ Royal African Symbols

A color with mystical and noble qualities, purple/violet is associated with royalty, spirituality, creativity, and magic. Representing the upper end of the visible color spectrum of Light, purple/violet is both a completion (spiritual mastery) as well as a… Read More

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Posted on June 7, 2016 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, Hero's Journey, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Storytelling

#YesWeCode, Amen, Amun, Ankh, Ausar, Auset, Djed, Djehuti, Hathor, Heru, Horus, Isis, Khonsu, Ma'at, Montu, Mut, Osiris, Prince, Tutankhamun, Was scepter

Heru/Horus… Hero

When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. ~… Read More

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Posted on November 2, 2011 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Storytelling

Auset, Carl Jung, colonialism, Desmond Tutu, eye of horus, Hathor, hero's journey, Heru, Horus, Hotep, Individuation, Isis, James Bonnet, Joseph Campbell, Kemet, Lake Victoria, masquerade, Mataria, metaphor, Nile, Nommo, Sankofa, talking drum, ubuntu

Trees of Dreaming, Songlines, Story, Life…

Deep in the rain forest of western Kenya, there lived a special tree that many considered mystical. Once upon a time, her dwelling place was part of the great Equatorial African forest that once spanned the continent from… Read More

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Posted on October 12, 2011 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics

Abaluhyia, Australia, Avatar, Baobab, Brandon Walters, Buddha, call-response, David Gulpilil, Dreamtime, Eywa, Hathor, Hugh Jackman, James Bonnet, Kakamega Forest, Mama Mutere Tree, Mutere Tree, Nicole Kidman, oral-aesthetic, Songlines, Stealing Fire from the Gods, story, Sycamore, Tree of Life, walkabout, Wangari Maathai

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