Masks like this are worn by men in elaborate masquerade performances known as "Gelede." This ritual takes place each year between March and May, at the beginning of a new agricultural season. The purpose of the performance is to pay tribute to the s ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2018 at 4:44PM
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Windows to West Africa is a presentation that focuses on the geographical and historical time period between 1000 AD until present. ...
Posted Sunday, May 6th 2018 at 4:49PM
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She made a choice:
Margaret Garner (called "Peggy") was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious – or celebrated – for killing her own daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery. She ...
Posted Thursday, May 3rd 2018 at 2:13PM
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The Enabler
Written by: sbA Wudjau Iry-Maat
No, friendship is not about “supporting your friends even when you know they’re wrong.” That’s not friendship. That’s being an ENABLER. That’s being an ACCOMPLICE. Friendship is loving so ...
Posted Wednesday, April 11th 2018 at 7:31PM
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Brother Kofi Piesie go in on the Kongo 1st encounter with the Portuguese and he breaks down there agreement of trading goods and later trading goods turns into the slave trade ...
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Posted Monday, April 9th 2018 at 1:26PM
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Blak Pantha of the Mossi Warrior Clan breaks down the power of energy in Afrikan traditions.
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Posted Monday, April 9th 2018 at 1:23PM
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It comes a time in the lives of the Africans when we realize that nobody is coming to save us. We now know we must save ourselves. The Ancestors are not coming because they’re already here. We are the return of the great ancestor. Come and make his ...
Posted Friday, April 6th 2018 at 11:29AM
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For the past few thousand years an attempt to demoralize, erase, and sweep under the rug the presence of African culture has been in play. With the rise of Greco-Roman influence worldwide it gave them power to re-write history from it’s perspective ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2018 at 1:49PM
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“If we don’t know ourselves, not only are we a puzzle to ourselves; other people are also a puzzle to us as well. We assume the wrong identity and identify ourselves with our enemies. If we don’t know who we are then we are whomever somebody te ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2018 at 1:35PM
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The former slave cemetery dating back to the 18th century was once overgrown and inaccessible. Now, the Wheat Community African Burial Ground is considered a model for how to preserve and interpret a historic cemetery.
And this morning, local pres ...
Posted Wednesday, April 4th 2018 at 7:54PM
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"The influence of other religions, especially, Christianity and Islam on African religion cannot be overemphasized. As generation after generation of Africans come under the influence of foreign religions or embrace the foreign religions, one or two ...
Posted Wednesday, April 4th 2018 at 7:47PM
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"Nana Olomu (1884-94), the last and best known governor of the Benin river, in his struggle against the advance of colonial rule, had to fight a violent war against the British though he was eventually captured and exiled to Calabar." General History ...
Posted Wednesday, April 4th 2018 at 7:44PM
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