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“BaNtu Waltz ~ Nya’s Archangel Story”

Dear Reader, I am truly honored and excited to announce the release of my award-winning novel entitled “BaNtu Waltz: Nya’s Archangel Story”. I trust that it will find a broad and diverse audience, from those who would enjoy… Read More

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Posted on January 20, 2025 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Apartheid, Colonial Experience, Divine Twins, Feature, health communication, Hero's Journey, Imperialism, Indigenous Nations, Neocolonialism, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Reparations, S/Hero's Journey, Shero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling, Twin Souls, ubuntu

African American Music Appreciation, Bantu, Bantu Waltz, Divine Twins, I'll Be There, kinetic orality, master drummer, Michael Jackson, Motown, Nyabingi, Oral Aesthetics, oral tradition, Orion, sangoma, Sound of Young America, talking drum, talking drum motif, Thriller, Twin Flames, Twin Souls, ubuntu

Queens of the South & the Mandela Effect

“SOUTH” is the entry point (Genesis) on The Medicine Wheel… the first of four cardinal directions and steps one takes to obtain wisdom and power in order to become the equivalent of a sangoma (shaman) who brings harmony… Read More

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Posted on May 14, 2023 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Indigenous Nations, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, S/Hero's Journey, Shero's Journey, Storytelling, ubuntu

Amakhamandela, Anna Julia Cooper, Bantustan, Caiphus Semenya, Dalibhunga, Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Masuka, Fiona Broome, Harry Belafonte, Hugh Masekela, Jaramogi Odinga, Khulu, Letta Mbulu, Ma'at, Madiba, Mama Africa, Mandela, Mandela Effect, Mayibuye, Medicine Wheel, Michael Jackson, Miriam Makeba, N.E.W.S, Nelson Mandela, Not Yet Uhuru, Prince, Queen of Sheba, Queen of the South, Quincy Jones, Raila Odinga, Rolihlahla, sangoma, Stokely Carmichael, Tata, Transkei, Traskei Bantustan, ubuntu, Uhuru Kenyatta

“Shut This Down” ~ [P ft MJ]

Did you ever want to see that collab between Prince & MJ?! YouTuber Raphael Tavares delivers this mix of Pince’s “Shut This Down” [2015] as a soundtrack to MJ’s provocative moves in “Black or White” [1991]. Besides this… Read More

HaNtu: Afrofuturism “In the Stone”

~ Posted in honor of African-American Music Appreciation Month, June 2017 ~ “The artist is meant to put the objects of this world together in such a way that through them you will experience that light, that radiance… Read More

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Posted on June 7, 2017 by malaika mutere

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

African-American Music Appreciation Month, afrofuturism, Alice Coltrane, Black Athena, Earth Wind & Fire, Erykah Badu, EWF, Hantu, Hieroglyphics, In the Stone, Janelle Monae, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Luxor Temple, Martin Bernal, Maurice White, Michael Jackson, Parliament Funkadelic, Prince, Ras G, Sun Ra

Emcees ~ Unmasking the Trickster Deity

“With this breath I thee wed, my true nature… my forever… my being. With this breath I say ‘yes,’ and I embrace that which is real within me ~ All that is great within me; all that is… Read More

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Posted on March 23, 2013 by malaika mutere

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

Berry Gordy, call-response motif, Common, emcees, griot, hip-hop culture, Joseph Campbell, Martin Luther King, masquerade motif, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Michael Jackson, Motown, Nommo, Trickster, ubuntu

Bantu Roadmaps… The Motown Connection

“You went to school to learn, girl Things you never, never knew before Li-i-ike “I-before-E-except-after-C” And why “2-plus-2-makes-4” Na… na… Now… I’m gonna teach you, All about love…” (J-5)

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