All in African Knowledge
This year’s Refuge Outdoor Festival was incredible and I’m truly looking forward to next year’s gathering! It was the diversity medicine I needed and I met people I’ll definitely be spending time with between retreats.
I grew up in a Black family surrounded by mostly White people and Christian culture (I know, how did I end up like this?!). It made it harder to access some of the deepest parts of who I am and it’s a privilege to have so much more space to do so now.
AfroFuture (formerly called Afrochella) is a music, arts and culture festival that celebrates the inspirational influences from the African Diaspora. The festival seeks to highlight and unite people under a banner of African and Black pride and educate on the intriguing contributions from the African continent and the culture it continues to spark beyond it’s beautiful shores.
I’m the Black half of an interracial couple and I have a LOT of feels about it.
Maybe other Black folks in interracial partnerships can understand this but somewhere, deep inside, I experience feelings of guilt because my partner is White….
Yoruba words (one of the principal languages of Nigeria) are rich, full of nuance and have many different variations.
Happy Birthday to Dear Teacher & Visionary Robert Nesta Marley. Listening to the music and lessons of Bob Marley & The Wailers today.
The knowledge of how to heal our own bodies will always live right within us all.
The self-healing path can provide an exciting way to connect with the body and unravel some of its mysteries. On this path, you might develop your power to tune out unsupportive or irrelevant voices in the mind so you can tune into what you truly need, at the moment, to grow.
Put this on your list! This 18 minute journey is quite expanding, I was moved by her vunerablity/truth (and her soothing storytelling and voice).
There are numerous woman rulers in African History, matrilineal supremacy is as old as the human story. I’ve recently discovered a lineage of mighty woman rulers of the Kush Kingdom (which evolved into present day Sudan) and their stories are bold and energizing.
The Yoruba people are from western Africa, mainly Nigeria, Benin, Togo and parts of Ghana. With the onset of the chattel slave trade Yoruba culture expanded across the world to Trinidad, Cuba, Saint Lucia, Benin, Togo, Brazil, Guyana, Haiti, and Jamaica, to name a few.
