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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

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Posted on March 3, 2022 by malaika mutere

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

Age of Aquarius, alphabet, Amun-Re, Aristotle, Ausar, Auset, Bob Marley, Carl Sagan, Changing of the Gods, Chuck D, Congo Square, demotic, DJ Kool Herc, Djehuti, Drum Circle, Duke of Edinburgh, Heru, hieratic, hip-hop, Ipet-Resyt, jazz, Kemet, Khmt, Kmt, Ma'at, Marshall McLuhan, Nyabingi, Plato, Pluto, Pluto's Return, Prince Philip, Rastafarianism, Sema Tawy, Set, Shulamite, Song of Songs, Temple of the World, Tkhn, Trojan Horse, True Seeker, ubuntu, Uranus, Wynton Marsalis

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

Ausar, Auset, axis mundi, Baka, Big Dipper, calabash, Congo River basin, culoepuya, Dendera, Djehuti, Edfu, Eric Bibb, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Geb, Gift of the Nile, gourd, Great Lakes, Hapi, Hathor, Heru, Mansion of Heru, map songs, Maziwa Mkuu, Merkhet, Meshketiu, milky way, Mother Tree, Mountains of the Moon, Nephthys, North Star, Nut, Nyabingi, Richie Havens, Seshat, Set, shekere, Steal Away to Jesus, tambor de agua, Temple of Dendera, Temple of the World, the Drinking Gourd, Underground Railroad, Wade In the Water, Water Bearer, water drum, Womb of Time

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

Ankole cow, Ankole Kingdom, Bantu, barkcloth, Bastet, Black Panther, Buganda Kingdom, Bunyoro Kingdom, Busoga Kingdom, God Hapi, Hathor, Kabaka, Khemet, Mayanja, milky way, Mountains of the Moon, Mujaguzo Royal Drums, musambwa, Mutuba Tree, Nyabingi, Omugabe, Omukama, Papyrus of Hunefer, propofol, River Nile, Rwenzori Mountains, Sekhmet, Seshat, Toro Kingdom, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Uganda, Victorian matrix, Wakanda

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

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Posted on February 23, 2018 by malaika mutere

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

art-for-life's-sake, Black Panther, Black Studies, Djehuti, Dora Milaje, Kwame Nkrumah, Luxor Temple, Nyabingi, Patrice Lumumba, Rites-of-Passage, Scramble for Africa, Seshat, Shuri, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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

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Posted on January 13, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Colonial Experience, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Reparations, Shero's Journey

Ausar, Auset, Babylon, Bagirwa, Black Panther, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, DJ Kool Herc, Dora Milaje, Ethiopia, Great Lakes, Haile Selassie, Hathor, Heru, hip-hop culture, Jamaica, Kemet, Kitami, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Marcus Garvey, Muhumusa, New Jerusalem, Nyabingi, Pan-Africanism, Queen Victoria, Rastafarianism, Reggae, Reparations, Rwanda, Scramble for Africa, Sekhmet, Seshat, Seth, Solomonic Dynasty, Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, Uganda, Wakanda, Zion

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

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