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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

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, Set, Solomonic Dynasty, Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, Uganda, Wakanda, Zion

Seshat ~ Opener of Heaven’s Door

In African oral tradition we have a communication concept surrounding the power of the word to generate and/or aesthetize life. In BaNtu culture, this is referred to as Nommo. This same concept in Khemet was referred to as… Read More

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Posted on September 23, 2017 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Reparations, Shero's Journey

alchemy, Ausar, Auset, Book of the Dead, Djehuti, Hantu, Hekau, Heru, khem, Kuntu, Libra, Luxor Temple, Ma'at, Nommo, Per-ankh, Reparations, Seshat, Seth, Sopdet, Tree of Life, ubuntu

Gods, Muses & the Summum Bonum

Ausar, god of the afterlife whom many believe holds the seven heavenly stars in his glorified form in the Hunter constellation, was said to have had a great passion for song and dance during his popular reign in… Read More

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Posted on August 8, 2017 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Reparations

alchemy, Amun, Apollo, Aristotle, Ausar, Djehuti, Egyptian Mysteries, Egyptian Mystery System, Emerald Tablet, Heru, House of Life, khem, Library of Alexandria, muse, Per-ankh, Plato, Plato's Symposium, salvation, Seshat, Set, Stolen Legacy, summum bonum

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