Absorbing AND Throwing Up

To retrieve prior work you have done [in windows] two things are requried: 1) name and 2) location.

This hard drive memory retreival is Sankofa too.

"This is work for creative spirits: finding out about Africa, exploring what values have proved positive in the past, and which have proved poisonous, so we can absorb the positive and throw up the poisonous, as we ready ourselves to imagine our new society, and then to create it."
p258.  The Eloquence of the Scribs, Ayi Kwei Armah

It A Regiment of 'So Dem Tink. So Dem Tink'

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

the step beyond HIStory

Surrealism and Black African Art

The surrealist aspects of the African way of life, as well as the African implications of surrealism, have tended to be ignored for reasons already touched on.  Instead of the alienating dualistic intellectualization that usually defines the headlines of European social practice, black Africans enjoyed the presence of the practice of poetry throughout the totality of their traditional social life. In Africa, that is, the living experience of surreality has since prehistoric times enjoyed supremacy over its theoretical justification. In the Western world, however, surrealism is the result of a long philosophical, political, scientific and poetic struggle to recover what the traditional African has never lost.  A gainst all forms of indifference and misery, surrealism and black African art  remain irreducible examples in the development of the complete unfettering of the mind. Surrealism and black African art show that History’s last step—the step beyond History—coincides with a return to first principles, which is also a return to primordial glory, involving nothing less than the systematic and definitive liberation of the whole of human society and of Nature itself.

~Cheikh Tidiane Sylla

Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, no. 4 (1989) (original emphasis)

No Ocean Bottom Community SIMILAR

IN HONOR OF AFRICAN ANCESTORS AT BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC

Vicissitudes Underwater Sculpture - Grenada, West Indies
Artist Jason de Caires Taylor, with Johanna Fernandez , Ari Merretazon and Tina Varick

yut ah.

HeLa = Selah. Awo.

The indispensable & immortal "Hela Gene" means Henrietta Lacks

Those who are dead are never gone,

they are in the breast of the woman,

they are in the child who is wailing,

and in the firebrand that flames.

The dead are not under the earth;

they are in the fire that is dying,

they are in the grasses that weep,

they are in the whimpering rocks,

they are in the forest, they are in the house,

the dead are not dead.

                                                ~Birago Diop

Mi Na g'Tiyad Fi Babylon

 Je suis un diplômé de la grande université de la Parole enseignée à l’ombre des baobabs. — "I graduated from the great university of the Spoken Word taught in the shade of baobab trees."

~Amadou Hampate Ba

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

2 Biskets (y ron)

In his survey of Boston slave for-sale ads in the 1700s, Robert E. Desrochers describes a Boston Gazette story of 1733 recounting “the story of a slave woman in Salem, who ... enacted what appears to have been an African-inspired graveside reincarnation ritual. ‘Determined to go into her own Country, as she call’d it,” the woman ‘took a Bottle of Rum & two Biskets ... into the Burying Place ... where she dug a hole & and cover’d em” before taking her own life with a knife.”

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).

"Bird in de air!"

Walter Rimm, Age 80
"My pappy wasn't 'fraid of nothin'. He am light cullud from de white blood, and he runs away sev'ral times. Dere am big woods all round and we sees lots of run-awayers. One old fellow name John been a run-awayer for four years and de patterrollers* tries all dey tricks, but dey can't cotch him. Dey wants him bad, 'cause it 'spire other slaves to run away if he stays a-loose. Dey sots de trap for him. Dey knows he like good eats, so dey 'ranges for a quiltin' and gives chitlin's and lye hominey. John comes and am inside when de patterrollers rides up to de door. Everybody gits quiet and John stands near de door, and when dey starts to come in he grabs de shovel full of hot ashes and throws dem into de patterrollers faces. He gits through and runs off, hollerin', 'Bird in de air!'"

~Ancesta Wisdom

'cause it 'spire other slaves to run away if he stays a-loose' Seen? Mainland maroons, kilombos, palmares eh? (smile). Pon dem yuts teach dem a 'stays a-loose' idren...'stays a-loose' o' & take life chance of bird in de air asi old john.

Bconx: Ankobia

"They not only called us Negroes, they made us Negroes..."

-Queen Mother Audley Moore

Livicate to Ant Martha - Quiet Music of an Intact African N8V R.I.P.P

Play:

“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.” – Shakespeare

KnauOghtty Dreads & Afros

If idren are unfamiliar with m130s-affi ovas: global afric -dem na all bby poisoned deaded...Yet.

Weighing Scales vs. Pre-Civilization Ourstory

Light As A Feather
(kiotd-ownload)
The wonderful songstress Caron WheelerSister bringing word sound power fi yuts rise dem up. She is referring to the ithiopian ostrich feather (below-across the judgement scale from the heart). "You can be, light as a feather".

Ka, Ba, Ancesta. 42 Negative Confessions ("I have not..."). How does the jackal know what im'know? (smile). Light as an ethiopian ostrich feather. This is to be snkfd. & then ...forward further, go fetch the source of this here Ma'at too-these things are older still.