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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

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Posted on October 29, 2024 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Colonial Experience, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Reparations, slavery, Storytelling

Akenaten, Amarna Period, American exceptionalism, Amun, Angola, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Ayi Kwei Armah, Branford Marsalis, Chinua Achebe, Congo Square, Fathia Nkrumah, Heru, Kuntu, Kwame Nkrumah, manifest destiny, Nefertiti, Osiris, Pan-Africanism, Prince, Queen Elizabeth II, Sankofa, Set, The Beautiful Ones, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Wynton Marsalis

Africa Day ~ 25th of May

African Liberation Day – variously referred to as African Freedom Day… African Unity Day… Africa Day – is the term that came into use on May 25th, 1963 to commemorate the founding of the Organization of African Unity… Read More

‘Maafa~Nakumbuka’~Embers…

The Presence of the Maafa within the Global African Community in 2023 ~ by Elder Baye Kes-Ba-Me-Ra The effects of the Maafa (African Slave Holocaust) remains with African people today on the African continent and in the Diaspora…. Read More

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Posted on November 23, 2023 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, Colonial Experience, Indigenous Nations, Pan-Africanism, Reparations, slavery, ubuntu, Uncategorized

African Holocaust, African Liberation Day, Amun, Baye Kes-Ba-Me-Ra, Charles Mende Roach, Dia da Consciencia Negra, Doctrine of Discovery, Ember, genocide, Kwame Nkrumah, Lest We Forget, Maafa, Maroon, Mut, Naiwu Osahon, Nakumbuka, Nakumbuka Day, National Day of Mourning, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-African Associations of America, Tom Feelings "The Middle Passage" artwork, ubuntu, Zumbi Day, Zumbi dos Palmares

MA’ATADOR3

I often think of African space-time as a dancefloor because I resonate with the motherland’s oral traditions in a particular way when I’m exploring and navigating Her southern hemisphere frequencies within the global arena. I’m most grateful to… Read More

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Posted on February 23, 2023 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Reparations, Shero's Journey

alchemy, alkhemy, Amun, Apartheid, Ascended Master, Ausar, Auset, Bantu Waltz, Berlin Conference, bullring, Circle Dance, Cleopatra's Needle, colonialism, Djehuti, Drum Circle, Equator, Heru, International Meridian Conference, Ipet-Resyt, Kenneth Kaunda, Khmt, Kwame Nkrumah, Lake Victoria, Ma'at, Ma'atrix, matador, Matrix, Maziwa Mkuu, middle passage, milky way, Mut, nyampara, obelisk, Pantsula, plaza de toro, Prime Meridian, Ring Shout, Set, slavery, Star of Africa, Temple of the World, Tkhn, Toyi Toyi, Triangular Slave Trade, ubuntu, Victoria, Victorian matrix, W.E.B. DuBois, Washington Monument, Womb of Time

Our Father’s House

“Our Father which art in Heaven…” So begins the Lord’s Prayer [Matthew 6:9-13 KJV], depicted here in hieroglyphs from the middle-Egyptian era [-2100 BCE]. “…Amen” – the ending of the prayer which means “so be it” – further… Read More

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Posted on June 19, 2022 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Reparations, slavery, Storytelling

Ali Mazrui, Amun, Annunciation, Chancellor Williams, CLR James, Djehuti, Frantz Fanon, Frederick Douglass, George G.M. James, Haile Selassie, Ipet-Isut, Ipet-Resyt, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, John Henrik Clarke, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Juneteenth, Karnak Temple, Kenneth Kaunda, Kwame Nkrumah, Luxor Temple, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Muntu, Mut, Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Mugabe, Temple of the World, Thebes, Thomas Sankara, Triad of Thebes, Uaset, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter Rodney, Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Nile Guardians of The World Temple

The longest river on EARTH flows unlike any other ~ from south-to-north. Out of the sentient HEART of Africa and birthplace of humanity, the Nile River travels well over 4,000 miles through 11 African countries: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda;… Read More

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Posted on February 23, 2020 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience

Amun, Ausar, Auset, Blue Nile, Djehuti, Djoser, Elephantine, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Hapi, Imhotep, Ipet-Resyt, Karnak Temple, Khartoum, Khnum, Khufu, Kwame Nkrumah, Luxor Temple, Mountains of the Moon, Mut, Nchi za Maziwa Mkuu, Papyrus of Hunefer, Per-ankh, Pyramids of Giza, River Nile, Rwenzori Mountains, Set, Sopdet, Temple of the World, White Nile

Year of Return ~ 2019

Kwame Nkrumah ~ Father of Pan-Africanism

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Posted on October 29, 2018 by malaika mutere

Colonial Experience, Pan-Africanism, Reparations, slavery

2019, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, Year of Return

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

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