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The Drinking Gourd

During America’s Underground Railroad era (1800-1865), Africans escaping slavery in the south knew through ‘map-songs’ that in order to Steal Away to Jesus, they’d have to Wade in the Water (to throw hunting dogs off their scent) and… Read More

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Posted on August 8, 2021 by malaika mutere

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

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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

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Hapi’s S/Hero Journey

“We came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon” ~ is, according to scholars, a declaration in The Papyrus of Hunefer, which was a copy of… Read More

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Posted on February 23, 2019 by malaika mutere

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

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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

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