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The Beautyful Ones…

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah’s debut novel (published in 1968), owes its title to the misspelled inscription on a bus in Ghana where the story is set. It opens during the final months in… Read More

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Posted on October 29, 2022 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Colonial Experience, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Reparations, slavery, Storytelling

Akenaten, Amarna Period, American exceptionalism, Amun, Angola, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Ayi Kwei Armah, Branford Marsalis, Chinua Achebe, Congo Square, Fathia Nkrumah, Heru, Kuntu, Kwame Nkrumah, manifest destiny, Nefertiti, Osiris, Pan-Africanism, Prince, Queen Elizabeth II, Sankofa, Set, The Beautiful Ones, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Wynton Marsalis

“… a mirror …”

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Posted on February 23, 2021 by malaika mutere

afrofuturism, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Reparations, Shero's Journey, Storytelling

A gift to Bring, Be My Mirror, Prince, Rumi, Sankofa, ubuntu

Earth, Wind, Fire & Water

Earth Wind & Fire (EWF) is undoubtedly one of the greatest bands of all time, as their claim to three of the four natural elements suggest they should be! Hits like In the Stone provide EWF fans an… Read More

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Posted on January 13, 2021 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, New Age, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Shero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling

Age of Aquarius, Age of Aries, Age of Faith, Age of Gemini, Age of Growth, Age of Law, Age of Pisces, Age of Taurus, Air, Akhenaten, Amun, Annunciation, Ausar, Auset, Djehuti, Earth, Earth Wind & Fire, EWF, Fire, Heru, In the Stone EWF, Ipet-Resyt, Lower Egypt, Ma'at, Menes, Millenium EWF, Mut, Narmer, Principles of Ma'at, Psalm 46, Sankofa, Sema Tawy, Set, Spirit EWF, The Promise EWF, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Unification of the Two Lands, Upper Egypt, Water

UbuNtu ~ Manifest Twinergy

Following 2019 – the “Year of Return” marking the 400th anniversary since enslaved Africans first set foot in the Americas at Jamestown, VA in 1619 – 2020 has evolved as an iconoclastic year, following the horrific murder-by-police of… Read More

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Posted on December 22, 2020 by malaika mutere

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

1619 Project, African Liberation Day, Age of Aquarius, American exceptionalism, Amun, Ausar, Auset, Caroline Randall Williams, Desmond Tutu, Divine Twins, Djehuti, Earth Wind & Fire, Ezra Aharone, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Golden Age, Heru, High Priestess, In the Stone, Ipet-Resyt, Khmunu, King, Lover, Ma'at, Magician, Magnum Opus, Major Arcana, manifest destiny, Minor Arcana, New Earth, Ogdoad of Hermopolis, Revelation, Sankofa, Seshat, Song of Songs, Tarot, Twin Flames, ubuntu, Underground Railroad, Warrior, white man's burden, Year of Return

Thy Crown

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Posted on July 22, 2020 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Shero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling

Angela Davis, Auset, Ma'at, Marimba Ani, Mother of Humanity, Mother Tree, Naganda, Sankofa, Wangari Maathai, Zulu Sofola

Sankofa ~ 2020 Foresight

2019 marks a historic realignment and opens the door to healing in Africa’s collective soul and consciousness. Slavery’s cruel time-portal, symbolized by the “door of no return” on the western shores of the continent, has in 2019 become… Read More

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Posted on December 22, 2019 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, New Age, Oral Aesthetics, Pan-Africanism, Shero's Journey, slavery

2020, Adinkra, Amun, ancestral timelines, Annunciation, Enkutatash, Ethiopian calendar, Fawohodie, Gregorian calendar, Haile Selassie, Ipet-Resyt, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Luxor Temple, Mami Wata, Mut, Nsoromma, Sankofa, ubuntu, Year of Return

When & Where I Enter

“Only the black woman can say ‘when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole …race enters with me.’” [Anna J…. Read More

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Posted on October 29, 2019 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, Colonial Experience, New Age, Oral Tradition, Shero's Journey, slavery, Storytelling

Age of Aquarius, Amun, Anna Julia Cooper, Ausar, Auset, Hathor, Heru, Ipet-Resyt, Luxor Temple, Ma'at, Matrix, milky way, Mut, Nut, Revelation, River Nile, Sankofa, Seshat, Set, Shulamite, Song of Songs, True Seeker, When & Where I Enter

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

Ankh, fool tarot card, Hapi, Hathor, Heru, lotus, Mami Wata, Maziwa Mkuu, milky way, Mirror, Mountains of the Moon, Nut, Oshun, Papyrus, Papyrus of Hunefer, Rwenzori Mountains, Sankofa, star tarot card, Tutankhamun, Water Bearer, world tarot card, Yemaya

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“Towards a Transformation Communication Theory: UbuNtu, Prince, and the Oral-Aesthetic Perspective” was recently published in The Journalist SA. To read the article, click here: http://www.thejournalist.org.za/academic-papers/towards-a-transformation-communication-theory-ubuntu-prince-and-the-oral-aesthetic-perspective

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Posted on September 5, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music

African communication theory, Bantu, call-response motif, Hantu, Jazz motif, kimoyo, kinetic orality, Kintu, Kuntu, masquerade motif, mojo motif, Muntu, Nommo, Oral Aesthetics, Prince, Sankofa, talking drum motif, ubuntu

Towards an Africa-centered and pan-African theory of Communication: Ubuntu and the oral-aesthetic perspective

ABSTRACT ~ This article supports scholarly findings that Bantu traditions are among the strongest civilizing forces in the United States. Positing pop music as a paradigm of proof, the author argues for a cultural decolonization and corrective understanding… Read More

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Posted on September 29, 2012 by malaika mutere

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

African communication theory, black popular music, Communicatio, ethnomusicology, Malaika Mutere, Nommo, oral aesthetics, oral tradition, pop music history, Sankofa, ubuntu

Heru/Horus… Hero

When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. ~… Read More

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Posted on November 2, 2011 by malaika mutere

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

Auset, Carl Jung, colonialism, Desmond Tutu, eye of horus, Hathor, hero's journey, Heru, Horus, Hotep, Individuation, Isis, James Bonnet, Joseph Campbell, Kemet, Lake Victoria, masquerade, Mataria, metaphor, Nile, Nommo, Sankofa, talking drum, ubuntu

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The Beautyful Ones…

“… a mirror …”

Earth, Wind, Fire & Water

UbuNtu ~ Manifest Twinergy

Thy Crown

Sankofa ~ 2020 Foresight

When & Where I Enter

Hapi’s S/Hero Journey

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Towards an Africa-centered and pan-African theory of Communication: Ubuntu and the oral-aesthetic perspective

Heru/Horus… Hero

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