“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

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

A Master Drummer & His Healing Path

In Africa it is said that each person has a rhythm to which they alone dance. What I’ve learned about this cultural proposition is there is a journey involved in finding one’s rhythm that will likely take you… Read More

A SaNgoma & Her Healing Path

The New/Golden Era is dawning! According to Age of Aquarius holdouts, this New/Golden Era will usher in a high-frequency, holistic unity-consciousness between human beings, & nurture an optimal co-dependent relationship with  the organic environment as disclosed in the… Read More

RETURN…

Amidst speculation in certain quarters about a great Return and global re-set around that event, I find myself longing for the organic frequency I imagine existed before the last great patriarchal re-set around the ‘matrix’ of a Mediterranean… Read More

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

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…

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

Nyabingi ~ Oracle of the Drum & Warrior Queen

Queen Nyabingi is one of several likely inspirational fonts for Marvel’s comic book renderings of Wakanda’s Dora Milaje, an elite group of female bodyguards who will soon be slaying on the silver screen [2/16/18] in Ryan Coogler’s directorial rendition… Read More

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