Showing posts with label afrika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label afrika. Show all posts
Unspoken Resistance & Drum Texts
"In addition to being a space for African spirituality and ritual, the African Burial Ground was also a space for slave resistance on a number of levels. ...it was the principal location for the execution of slaves involved in the 1712 and 1741 disturbances. Furthermore, Burial #25 excavated on October 16, 1991, provides some insight into the end result of rebellious activities in eighteenth-century New York City. The twenty-two-year-old woman interred in this grave was found with a musket ball in her rib cage, significant blunt force trauma to her lower skull and a diagonal fracture along her right forearm. Based on a forensic examination of her skeletal remains, it appears that she was shot in the back, severely beaten, and then restrained by someone who twisted her arm-thus causing the fracture. Since the fractures on her lower skull and arm had not healed, she likely suffered these injuries in the last hours or minutes of her life. Whether she was one of the slaves killed during the 1712 revolt will probably never be known. It is plausible, however, that she died during some act of resistance to white authority. Physical anthropologists studying the remains at the site have found distinct signs indicating that in at least two cases individuals were burned to death-a capital punishment associated with enslaved Africans found guilty of arson, rebellion, or murder."
~Walter C. Rucker, Fires of Discontent, Echoes of Africa: Slave Resistance in Colonial. New York City
Mo nyinaa mma yenkaw kwan no
(you all should allow us to go on the path)
Mo nyinaa mma yenkaw kwan no
(you all should allow us to go on the path)
Nnipa dodo a yekawee,
yemmae
(the multitude of people that went, they did not come)
Mo nyinaa mma yenkaw kwan no
(you all should allow us to go on the path)
~Akan drum text, Kwasi Konadu, The Akan Diaspora in the Americas
Babylon Dem da Letter A... "A" (PF5 to refresh)
Here is an example of the Europeanization of an African phenomenon (click ea. image to see better):
Proto-Sinaitic* to Canaanitic
Canaanitic to Syriac (Phoenician)
Phoenician to Latin ('your' script from the angles & sajones)
The letter "A". Seen? A mere turning upside down and manipulation of. The letter J. Seen? Jesus.
Take any part of a life area: hospitality, law/justice, how the aged are treated. ...a mere turning upside down and manipulation of. AWO. See Baba Walter Rodney detail in mo fya from whey bak ova deah: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneylib.html
*for those who scairt: AFRICAN mdw ntr or hierogliphics (if u Will).
The Mistake: Open Gods of Afrikan Leaders
"The mistake our ancestors made, and which African
leaders continue to make unto this day is that: non- European people,
especially Africans and the Indigenous Americans in the Caribbean Islands
referred to as 'Indians' initially attributed to the Europeans a humanity and
spirituality that they did not have, and still do not have in their
relationship with most of non-European people of the world. This brings us to a
conclusion that might be difficult for a lot of people to accept. Maybe the
world outside of Europe didn't need the Europeans
in the first place. Maybe in this fakery about spreading civilization he
destroyed more civilizations than he ever built and did the world more harm
than good."
~Dr. John Henrik Clarke
~Dr. John Henrik Clarke
See especially minute 1:03 "Sacrifices which have been of no use." AWO.
Can ANYONE name a single leader of one of Africa's 54 recognized nation states who publicly has given thanks (or even mentioned/recognized) to an Afrikan deity (with an Afrikan name)? AWO.
"An Energy In Us"
"There was a third white destroyer: a missionary who wanted to replace all knowledge of our way with fables even our children laughed at then. We told the white missionary we had such fables too, but kept them for the entertainment of those yet growing up - fables of gods and devils and a supreme being above everything. We told him we knew soft minds needed such illusions, but that when any mind grew among us to adulthood it grew beyond these fables and came to understand that there is indeed a great force in the world, a force spiritual and able to shape the physical universe, but that that force is not something cut off, not something seperate from ourselves. It is an energy in us, strongest in our working, breathing, thinking together as one people; weakest when we are scattered, confused, broken into individual, unconnected fragments."
~Ayi Kwei Armah
Returning Home
"I looked at the river - its waters had begun to take on a cloudy look with the alluvial mud brought down by the rains that must have poured in torrents on the hills of Ethiopia - and at the men with their bodies leaning against the ploughs or bent over their hoes, and my eyes take in fields flat as the palm of a hand, right up to the edge of the desert where the houses stand. I hear a bird sing or a dog bark or the sound of an axe on wood - and I feel a sense of stability, I feel that I am important, that I am continuous and integral. No, I am not a stone thrown into the water but seed sown in a field. I go to my grandfather and he talks to me of life forty years ago, fifty years ago, even eighty, and my feeling of security is strengthened."
~Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
Island - Amilcar Cabral
ISLAND
Mother, in your perennial sleep,
You live naked and forgotten
and barren,
thrashed by the winds,
at the sound of songs without music
sung by the waters that confine us...
Island:
Your hills and valleys
haven’t felt the passage of time.
They remain in your dreams
- your children’s dreams –
crying out your woes
to the passing winds
and to the carefree birds flying by.
Island :
Red earth shaped like a hill that never ends
- rocky earth –
ragged cliffs blocking all horizons
while tying all our troubles to the winds!
Mother, in your perennial sleep,
You live naked and forgotten
and barren,
thrashed by the winds,
at the sound of songs without music
sung by the waters that confine us...
Island:
Your hills and valleys
haven’t felt the passage of time.
They remain in your dreams
- your children’s dreams –
crying out your woes
to the passing winds
and to the carefree birds flying by.
Island :
Red earth shaped like a hill that never ends
- rocky earth –
ragged cliffs blocking all horizons
while tying all our troubles to the winds!
~AmÃlcar Cabral, Praia, Cabo Verde, 1945
Babylon System (Tradition), Or The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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Bob Marley - Babylon System
We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be;
We are what we are:
That's the way (way) it's going to be.
If you don't know!
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity:
(Talkin' 'bout my freedom)
Talkin' 'bout my freedom,
People freedom (freedom) and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah!
Building church and university, wo-o-ooh, yeah!
-Deceiving the people continually, yea-ea!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers;
Look out now: they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers).
Yea-ea-ea! (sufferers)
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth right now!
Come on and tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Come on and tell the children the truth.
'Cause - 'cause we've been trodding on ya winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
And we've been taken for granted much too long:
Rebel, rebel now!
(Trodding on the winepress)
Trodding on the winepress (rebel):got to rebel, y'all (rebel)!
We've been trodding on the winepress much too long - ye-e-ah! (rebel)
Yea-e-ah! (rebel) Yeah! Yeah!
From the very day we left the shores (trodding on the winepress)
Of our Father's land (rebel),
We've been trampled on (rebel),
Oh now! (we've been oppressed, yeah!)
Lord, Lord, go to ...
[*Sleeve notes continue:
Now we know everything we got to rebel
Somebody got to pay for the work
We've done, rebel.]
give thanks fru/la ...ita fi loop play in projector d'idren center (smile).
We Will All Live In Afrika One Day
Isn't this just Afrika? (smile).
This is afrika too (fi yellow arrow above).
Dem yuts-also: Afrika.
Yep. Asi, ashe.
Bob Marley Interview with Patrick Barrat, 1980 in Tuff Gong, Jamaica
....
PB: Isn't Africa a bit a dream for you?
Bob: No, no, it's a reality.
PB: Will you go and live there one day?
Bob: Yeah man. We will all live in Africa one day, for even France will be Africa.
PB: How come?
Bob: But of course, France will be Ethiopia! When the french were in Africa, they used to control some places and declared them french. The times will change and France will belong to Africa. The tables are turning, but this time, there won't be blood, people won't be forced. They will agree. Africa is the fruit basket of the earth. It will unite without opressing the people for God loves Africa.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
"There is no better rallying ground".
HIV Resistant People Found in Uganda
(New Vision) A small fraction of Ugandans have been able to naturally knock off HIV from their body, a development that could lead to an HIV vaccine, scientists have said.
Dr. Pontiano Kaleebu, an immunologist heading the Basic Sciences Programme of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), told Saturday Vision that an ongoing study and a previous one at the institute had unearthed signs that some Ugandans may be resistant to HIV.
They have special white blood cells that can only be produced when the virus attacks the body. However, even with the most sophisticated tests, HIV could not be found in these individuals, implying that the virus had tried to infect them but the immune system kicked it out.
"We are seeing some immune responses but it is still too early to see if there is a lot of meaning to these responses," said Kaleebu.
"Such people are of interest to many researchers worldwide."
At the AIDS Information Centre in Kampala, the UVRI scientists are studying 70 discordant couples to see if some of them are indeed resistant to HIV. These are couples that have had unprotected sex for more than a year, one partner has had HIV for long while the other has not become infected. "We have set up a clinic in Kampala where doctors and counsellors do a lot of counselling and give them condoms to reduce risky sexual behaviour," Kaleebu said.
Despite early signs of resistance to HIV, Kaleebu said meaningful results can only be released at the end of the study. The five-year research, expected to be completed in 2010, is sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health through the British Medical Research Council (MRC). It is part of a multi-country study coordinated by the US-based Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) and involving Oxford University of UK.
Prof. Heiner Grosskurth, the Director of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, said: "A lack of ability to becoming HIV infected is extremely rare, but there is evidence meanwhile that people who have this characteristic exist worldwide, although in very small numbers."
Although they are so few, he said, studying them could generate new knowledge that would enable scientists to develop a vaccine. "Such work is going on with a lot of speed and effort in many countries, but there is no breakthrough yet! I think it will still take years until we have good vaccine candidates."
Earlier in 2002, Prof. Andrew Mc Michael of the University of Oxford and the late Dr. Anthony Kebba of UVRI announced that they had identified some eight Ugandans in Kampala and Entebbe, who were exposed to HIV but remained uninfected. One fifth of the discordant couples they studied showed some signs of resistance to HIV, but this required further confirmation. Mc Michael is involved with Kaleebu in the new study. Similar studies are going on in Kenya and the Gambia.
Kaleebu cautioned that nearly all people are vulnerable to HIV and Ugandans should not relax simply because a few individuals seem to be resistant to the virus. "It has to be clear that this apparent resistance is not a common thing. If you are HIV negative and your partner is HIV positive we cannot say you are resistant and you cannot become infected. If you continue to have unprotected sex you might become infected in the long run," said Kaleebu.
Indeed, in the late 1990s some people in Rakai were reported to have become infected with HIV after being discordant for many years. On discovering that they were discordant, scientists had advised them to begin using condoms. Later, some of those who declined to use condoms became infected. (more).
Dr. Pontiano Kaleebu, an immunologist heading the Basic Sciences Programme of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), told Saturday Vision that an ongoing study and a previous one at the institute had unearthed signs that some Ugandans may be resistant to HIV.
They have special white blood cells that can only be produced when the virus attacks the body. However, even with the most sophisticated tests, HIV could not be found in these individuals, implying that the virus had tried to infect them but the immune system kicked it out.
"We are seeing some immune responses but it is still too early to see if there is a lot of meaning to these responses," said Kaleebu.
"Such people are of interest to many researchers worldwide."
At the AIDS Information Centre in Kampala, the UVRI scientists are studying 70 discordant couples to see if some of them are indeed resistant to HIV. These are couples that have had unprotected sex for more than a year, one partner has had HIV for long while the other has not become infected. "We have set up a clinic in Kampala where doctors and counsellors do a lot of counselling and give them condoms to reduce risky sexual behaviour," Kaleebu said.
Despite early signs of resistance to HIV, Kaleebu said meaningful results can only be released at the end of the study. The five-year research, expected to be completed in 2010, is sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health through the British Medical Research Council (MRC). It is part of a multi-country study coordinated by the US-based Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) and involving Oxford University of UK.
Prof. Heiner Grosskurth, the Director of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, said: "A lack of ability to becoming HIV infected is extremely rare, but there is evidence meanwhile that people who have this characteristic exist worldwide, although in very small numbers."
Although they are so few, he said, studying them could generate new knowledge that would enable scientists to develop a vaccine. "Such work is going on with a lot of speed and effort in many countries, but there is no breakthrough yet! I think it will still take years until we have good vaccine candidates."
Earlier in 2002, Prof. Andrew Mc Michael of the University of Oxford and the late Dr. Anthony Kebba of UVRI announced that they had identified some eight Ugandans in Kampala and Entebbe, who were exposed to HIV but remained uninfected. One fifth of the discordant couples they studied showed some signs of resistance to HIV, but this required further confirmation. Mc Michael is involved with Kaleebu in the new study. Similar studies are going on in Kenya and the Gambia.
Kaleebu cautioned that nearly all people are vulnerable to HIV and Ugandans should not relax simply because a few individuals seem to be resistant to the virus. "It has to be clear that this apparent resistance is not a common thing. If you are HIV negative and your partner is HIV positive we cannot say you are resistant and you cannot become infected. If you continue to have unprotected sex you might become infected in the long run," said Kaleebu.
Indeed, in the late 1990s some people in Rakai were reported to have become infected with HIV after being discordant for many years. On discovering that they were discordant, scientists had advised them to begin using condoms. Later, some of those who declined to use condoms became infected. (more).
'pon Idren mind
long live ithiopia
blackaman where is your country? (trod it outa bby)
where is your king?
where is your nation? (had it ina Africa)
where is your god?
you fi look upon the land ithiopia where we belong
u fi look upon the land of a nubia where we belong
you fi look upon the land of africa where we belong
u fi look upon the land itiopia where we belong
blackaman blackman there is no justice
lion can tell ya, there is no peace
there is no freedom
while living in captivity so dem dem can fool ya
u fi look upon the land of ithiopia, nubia, africa, ithiopia where we belong...yeaah.
~Nasio Fontaine, Positivity
Wanted: Word-Sound-Power artists
Calling any & all sista/bruddah who can put words to new music, come contribute. Choose a melody or bring it.
KnauOghtty Dreads & Afros
If idren are unfamiliar with m130s-affi ovas: global afric -dem na all bby poisoned deaded...Yet.
Learning Landscape
Interesting project to re-enforce yut understanding. "Learning Landscape", at the Kutamba School for orphans of AIDS in rural Uganda. (more). Affi call on all design ideas for ground breaking of RBG facility :)
My Love for Afrika is undiluted - For Baba Fela Kuti (Channel Kindu2006)
The Greeks called you Ethiopia—
The kingdom of the burned faces.
You sent Aesop to tell fables,
You gave Kemet, Nubia to teach
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Plato...all they needed to know.
Indeed, those were the days when
"Sages looked to Egypt for their lore". *
Today you're a divided land
Where multifarious customs
And extraordinary music
Embalm the toiling feet of your
Multitudinous boys and girls.
The Romans revered your bold sons.
You sent Septimius Severus
To drown the Parthians in defeat:
From your mighty rivers more and
More of your sons flooded regal Rome.
Today, you give us a desert
Where we build shrines, pray to water,
For rain is a blessing from Thoth
Shango, Shaka, Cetshwayo...
The Yemenites knew your daughters.
You gave Sheba Queen Makeda,
She ruled her Shebans with wisdom;
Solomon she ruled with beauty.
Together they gave Menelik
To Ethiopia— her future emperor;
Today, your Emperor and Empress
Prostrate themselves for lack of wealth,
At the god of greed and hatred.
You gave Ancient great foundations:
Your greatest architect, Zoser
Your multi-genius, Imhotep
Your warrior pharaoh, Tarhaqua...—
Men whose temples lie in ruins,
But whose legends still stand firm in
Lands now growing in poverty
Ushering in hunger and AIDS—
Oh the contempt! Your mind, abused,
Is now strewn in oblivion,
Afrika.
You gave Haiti L'Ouverture
To revolutionise the slaves,
And French egocentricity died
On that day when the Modern's oldest
Democracy was born, indeed
Toussaint Lives today! When shall he
Rise again and tear down lazy hearts?
History is written by victors!
Afrika.
For Maya, you're carved in history
By hands with "bitter twisted" motives;
Yet your heart, though stretched and torn,
Still contains the strength to forgive:
How else can we explain your endurance
After years and years of beatings?
It's because the flag that blows love
Is still waving boldly inside your heart.
Afrika,It's true that you have been worn out;
But you haven't been defeated!
I can say with firm confidence
You've built walls to resist defeat.
Our modern walls erected by:
Lumumba, Kenyatta, Nkrumah,
Cabral, Garvey, Soyinka, X, ... Fela
Will erect your future walls in:
The West, South, North and East.
Afrika,
Division suffocated you.
Its destruction, therefore,
Will clear the air of strife!
Afrika,
Where is the Light so synonymous
With love, which keeps all things alive?
Where's that vacuum that sucked your Light?
Hear, for all your children cry out
With dusty hands and brittle bones,
For love to touch life in them again.
Where's Worth? Is she sat on the wind's wings
Being blown about from shore to shore?
Uprooted from home, her people,
Significance has been stolen
And is languishing visa-less in foreign flags
* - John Keats (Hyperion Book 1 - Line 33)
Channel Kindo2006
The kingdom of the burned faces.
You sent Aesop to tell fables,
You gave Kemet, Nubia to teach
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Plato...all they needed to know.
Indeed, those were the days when
"Sages looked to Egypt for their lore". *
Today you're a divided land
Where multifarious customs
And extraordinary music
Embalm the toiling feet of your
Multitudinous boys and girls.
The Romans revered your bold sons.
You sent Septimius Severus
To drown the Parthians in defeat:
From your mighty rivers more and
More of your sons flooded regal Rome.
Today, you give us a desert
Where we build shrines, pray to water,
For rain is a blessing from Thoth
Shango, Shaka, Cetshwayo...
The Yemenites knew your daughters.
You gave Sheba Queen Makeda,
She ruled her Shebans with wisdom;
Solomon she ruled with beauty.
Together they gave Menelik
To Ethiopia— her future emperor;
Today, your Emperor and Empress
Prostrate themselves for lack of wealth,
At the god of greed and hatred.
You gave Ancient great foundations:
Your greatest architect, Zoser
Your multi-genius, Imhotep
Your warrior pharaoh, Tarhaqua...—
Men whose temples lie in ruins,
But whose legends still stand firm in
Lands now growing in poverty
Ushering in hunger and AIDS—
Oh the contempt! Your mind, abused,
Is now strewn in oblivion,
Afrika.
You gave Haiti L'Ouverture
To revolutionise the slaves,
And French egocentricity died
On that day when the Modern's oldest
Democracy was born, indeed
Toussaint Lives today! When shall he
Rise again and tear down lazy hearts?
History is written by victors!
Afrika.
For Maya, you're carved in history
By hands with "bitter twisted" motives;
Yet your heart, though stretched and torn,
Still contains the strength to forgive:
How else can we explain your endurance
After years and years of beatings?
It's because the flag that blows love
Is still waving boldly inside your heart.
Afrika,It's true that you have been worn out;
But you haven't been defeated!
I can say with firm confidence
You've built walls to resist defeat.
Our modern walls erected by:
Lumumba, Kenyatta, Nkrumah,
Cabral, Garvey, Soyinka, X, ... Fela
Will erect your future walls in:
The West, South, North and East.
Afrika,
Division suffocated you.
Its destruction, therefore,
Will clear the air of strife!
Afrika,
Where is the Light so synonymous
With love, which keeps all things alive?
Where's that vacuum that sucked your Light?
Hear, for all your children cry out
With dusty hands and brittle bones,
For love to touch life in them again.
Where's Worth? Is she sat on the wind's wings
Being blown about from shore to shore?
Uprooted from home, her people,
Significance has been stolen
And is languishing visa-less in foreign flags
* - John Keats (Hyperion Book 1 - Line 33)
Channel Kindo2006
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