African Spirituality | Traditional African Religions
"African spirituality" emerging as a new pseudo denomination. We see the loose generalization of a "tribal Africa" with drums and Umbuntu and libation, divorced from the reality of a diverse Africa. These over simplified echoes and fragments of authentic African
Race in Ancient Egypt: Black Pharaohs?
The great debate about race in Ancient Egypt is heavily polarized. Everyone wants to be associated with the greatest builders of the ancient world.
Who is a Scholar
Who is a scholar? In our society today we confuse someone in Universities as being a scholar. An academic is an academic who may or not be a scholar. And scholar only means someone with a certain degree of expertise
Why Kwanzaa 365 | The Pan-African Diaspora Holiday
We must carve out of the hard rock of reality the place we want to stand on and leave as a legacy for those who come after us--Maulana Karenga As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the
African Marriage: Rites of Passage
Marriage in African culture, from North to South, East to West is hands-down one of the most significant rites of passage. It is the most celebrated ceremony in all African cultures. African weddings are a spiritual and social family affair
WHITE AFRICANS?
To conquer a people you conquer their ability to identify as a group being oppressed and articulate their unique reality. The primary relationship between Africans and Europeans, independent of time and geography is that of slave and slave master, colonial
African Agency | Critical Development
The fate of Africa is that after slavery, colonialism, apartheid and neo-liberal globalization is that Africans are not agents of their lives. Definitions, agendas paradigms, and perspectives are still imposed by Europeans and others, who dominate all aspects of the
Linguistics For A New African Reality
Words have meanings, but meanings are dictated --like everything else by those with power. Words play a critical role in articulating reality and that means reality is a subset of linguistics, and agency. No word is innocent in the hands