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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

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

The Beautiful Beautyful Ones

SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: March 14, 2016 ∴ March 23, 2024 [Gregorian] “People need images. Lacking them, they invent idols. Better then to found the images on Realities that lead the True Seeker to the Source…… Read More

UbuNtu ~ Manifest Twinergy

Following 2019 – the “Year of Return” marking the 400th anniversary since enslaved Africans first set foot in the Americas at Jamestown, VA in 1619 – 2020 has evolved as an iconoclastic year, following the horrific murder-by-police of… Read More

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Posted on December 22, 2020 by malaika mutere

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

1619 Project, African Liberation Day, Age of Aquarius, American exceptionalism, Amun, Ausar, Auset, Caroline Randall Williams, Desmond Tutu, Divine Twins, Djehuti, Earth Wind & Fire, Ezra Aharone, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Golden Age, Heru, High Priestess, In the Stone, Ipet-Resyt, Khmunu, King, Lover, Ma'at, Magician, Magnum Opus, Major Arcana, manifest destiny, Minor Arcana, New Earth, Ogdoad of Hermopolis, Revelation, Sankofa, Seshat, Song of Songs, Tarot, Twin Flames, ubuntu, Underground Railroad, Warrior, white man's burden, Year of Return

The Galactic Codex

NOTE: The Galactic Codex (paraphrased and reprinted here from various Internet sources) purportedly represents the legal basis for all actions of The Confederation of Light, a collective body said to be made up of this [“Milky Way/Maziwa Mkuu…”] &… Read More

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Posted on September 23, 2020 by malaika mutere

Colonial Experience, New Age, Reparations, slavery

American exceptionalism, Apartheid, Berlin Conference, chattel slavery, Galactic Codex, manifest destiny, Matrix, the white man's burden, ubuntu, Victorian matrix

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

American exceptionalism, Angola State Penitentiary, bamboula, Buddy Bolden, calinda, carabine, code noir, Congo Square, Harlem Renaissance, jazz, Jazz Age, Jazz motif, juba, Louis Armstrong, manifest destiny, Marie Laveau, Mississippi River, Prince, ubuntu, When the Saints Go Marching In, Wynton Marsalis

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