middle passage | Malaika Mutere

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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, Ipet-Resyt, Kenneth Kaunda, Khmt, Kwame Nkrumah, 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, W.E.B. DuBois, Washington Monument, Womb of Time

I Re-member ~ “Nakumbuka Day” (11/11)

Adinkra symbol of God’s omnipresence and the perpetual existence of man’s spirit… This symbol signifies the immortality of man’s soul, believed to be a part of God. Because the soul rests with God after death, it cannot die.

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Posted on November 11, 2017 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Hero's Journey, Shero's Journey

African Holocaust, Apartheid, Capitalism, colonialism, Cultural Assimilation, Maafa, middle passage, Nakumbuka Day, Neocolonialism, Pan-Africanism, Racial Segregation, slavery

I Re-Member ~ “Nakumbuka Day” (11/11)

Adinkra symbol of God’s omnipresence and the perpetual existence of man’s spirit… This symbol signifies the immortality of man’s soul, believed to be a part of God. Because the soul rests with God after death, it cannot die.

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Posted on November 11, 2016 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey

African Holocaust, Apartheid, Capitalism, colonialism, Cultural Assimilation, Maafa, middle passage, Nakumbuka Day, Neocolonialism, Pan-Africanism, Racial Segregation, slavery

Reparations ~ Restoring the Divine Feminine: Ma’at

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him… Read More

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Posted on March 23, 2016 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Reparations, Storytelling

Ankh, Book of Coming Forth by Day, Caribbean Ten-Point Plan, Djehuti, Garden of Eden, Ma'at, Mama Mutere Tree, middle passage, Mother of Humanity, Nyabingi, Reparations, Sir Hilary Beckles, Song of Songs, Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The Language You Cry In” …oral-aesthetic musings

“Everybody come… Everyone come together… / The grave is restless. The grave is not yet at peace…” (translation) Lorenzo Turner, a pioneering Black linguist, recognized the origin of these lines in a song he recorded in the 1930s on… Read More

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Posted on March 18, 2012 by malaika mutere

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

African-American music, blues, call-response motif, field hollers, funeral songs, gullah, Lorenzo Turner, Maafa, masquerade motif, matriarchal aesthetics, Mende, middle passage, mojo motif, nelson george, ngugi wa thiong'o, north-south conversations, oral aesthetics, rhythm-and-blues, talking drum motif, the language you cry in, ubuntu motif

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