⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 14 | Ft. Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad (Black Psychology, Sankɔfa Journey, Spirit)

Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, we Link Up with Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad, a licensed counselor, with over thirty years of clinical mental health experience and the current president of the Association of Black Psychologists. Dr. Muhammad takes us through her upbringing in Staten Island, experiencing anti-Black racism, the refuge of Black community, and the transformation that came through Black Studies at Rutgers University. We discuss the influence of her professors, her journey into psychology, and the work that eventually brought her into leadership within the Association of Black Psychologists. She also shares her experiences traveling throughout Abibiman (The Black Land), from her first Sankɔfa Journey to Ghana, and various other locations.

The conversation moves deeper into Black psychology, the psychological consequences of operating within foreign cultural systems, and why true healing requires reconnecting with who we are as Black people. We discuss the importance of Black-controlled spaces, the relationship between Black consciousness in the diaspora and cultural foundations in Abibiman, and the need to bring these together through organized international work, including the Decade of Our Repatriation (D.O.O.R.) initiative. Dr. Muhammad also shares her vision for strengthening the Association of Black Psychologists, the opportunities and dangers of technology and artificial intelligence, and why Black liberation must move beyond intellectual understanding to a deeper reconnection with spirit, ancestors, and collective Black purpose.

This is a conversation about Black psychology, Sankɔfa Journey, healing, spirit, Black Power, repatriation, and the work required to restore the Black mind, reconnect the Black world, and build institutions capable of advancing Abibifahodie (Black Liberation).

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

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Link Up Podcast, Dr. Monique Swift Muhammad, Association of Black Psychologist, Healing, Counseling, D.O.O.R., Abibitumi, R2GH, Abibinnwom, Abibitumi

⁣mktyw kmt (Defenders of the Black Land) - Episode 2 - Culture: The Immune System

Mwacha mila ni mtumwa.
He who abandons his culture is a slave. — Swahili proverb

The churches came down. Something else went up in their place.

Across Abibiman, a generation is being taught to carry themselves as someone else's children. A body that forgets itself stops recognizing what doesn't belong — and that is exactly the opening the enemies of the Black Land have been preparing for, this time will attempt to use their quietest door yet. They've spent decades preparing the one who'd hold it open — someone they think the community would never turn away.

But something is shifting on the ground. The family doesn't move alone. The community is ready to put skin in the game and choosing to participate in destroying Black Powerless systems in exchange for Black Powerful ones. This unification is happening just in time, as an even bigger storm is brewing.

⁣Abibitumi Press Conference: Skin In the Game

Are you building towards Black Power or Black Powerlessness?

⁣D.O.O.R. (DECADE OF OUR REPATRIATION) Promotion

Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival
(16-17 October 2026)

CoH Open D.O.O.R. Dialogues
(30 October 2026)

Sankɔfa Journey
(11-21 December)

Abibitumi Conference and Festival
(12-13 December)

Black Energy Fashion Show | Abibitumi Wild Seed Sustainability Experience
(12-13 December)

... and so much more...

Dr. Kamau Rashid & Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore: The Attack On Black Academia

In this interview, we speak with Dr. Kamau Rashid and Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore about the ongoing challenges facing Black academics and the broader attack on Black intellectual life.

We take a deep look at the controversy surrounding Jason Arday and what his case reveals about the treatment of Black scholars within academia. The conversation also explores philosophy as a discipline, the role of sociology, and how Black intellectual traditions have challenged dominant academic frameworks.

Drawing on the work and ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois and Huey P. Newton, we discuss Black scholarship, power, knowledge, institutional racism, and the importance of developing intellectual traditions rooted in the experiences and struggles of Black people.

This is a wide-ranging conversation about academia, philosophy, sociology, Black intellectual history, and the future of Black scholarship.

⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 12 | Ft Agya Kwadwo and Mama Kenya (Love, Land & Legacy)
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, Agya Kwadwo comes back as Link Up’s first returning guest, this time with Mama Kenya — the “air under his wings” — to tell the fuller story behind the work, the balance, and the family foundation that has helped shape their path. They bring us through their 31 years journey of love, family, consciousness, and return.

We discuss Agya Kwadwo’s New Jersey upbringing, Mama Kenya’s roots in Newport News, Virginia, their Hampton University love story, their marriage on Hampton’s campus, military life, raising children, and the powerful role of Know Thyself Bookstore in Tacoma as a community space that deepened their consciousness. The conversation also moves through Agya Kwadwo’s first trip to Ghana, the spiritual connection to his great-grandmother, buying land for generations yet unborn, joining the xmnw Medjay Community, Mama Kenya preparing for her first Sankɔfa Journey, and the legacy they are building so their children and future generations have an ancestral option to return, grow, and live as whole Black people.

This is a conversation about raised consciousness becoming raised behavior, Black love as institution, and the work required to bring the whole family Black home.

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

⁣Edited by Akosua herself! Watch future Dr. Akosua Kambon get a hands-on introduction to optometry at the eye and dental clinic. 👩🏾‍⚕️👁
Sewaa Nataki and Sewaase Akosua had a great time at the eye exam and dental cleaning. We captured the day in a few clips and turned them into reels.
The doctors were super cool and took time to show Akosua how the equipment works. She even got to look straight into the doctor’s eye through the equipment—which was seriously Blacktastic! 🖤✨
Future Dr. Akosua loading… 👩🏾‍⚕️📚✨

After a fun day at the eye and dental clinic Sewaa Nataki and Akosua made it into a fun video editing project. Here is how we turn thoughtful camera work into a story.

⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 11 (part 1) | Ft Akosua Kambon and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon (Youth in Action, Abibitumi 20, Upcoming Book)
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, we Link Up for a special two-for-one Episode 11 Part 1 featuring Akosua Kambon and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon. We begin with Akosua, as she shares the Blacktastic work she has already started building through her Twi teaching show "Akosua & Afia Agorɔ", popcorn making videos "Akosua’s Crunchy Creations", and her interests in fashion, baking, singing, dancing and so much more. We discuss her recent experience on the Sankɔfa Journey 2025, including the Abibitumi Conference, and her first plane ride to Burkina Faso. Her section is a living reminder that Black children do not have to wait until adulthood to use their talents towards contributing to building Abibifahodie (Black Liberation).

We then Link Up with Akosua's Agya, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon for the beginning of a two-part discussion. In this first portion we cover the inspiration behind building Abibitumi and the 20-year journey of development, the move from Abibitumi Kasa as Black Power Language into a broader all-Black ecosystem, and the work of turning a Black digital space into a Black physical model through Abibitumi headquarters and the xmnw Medjay Community. The conversation also moves through his upcoming book, "The Construction of Black Civilization, Vol. 1", Mdw Ntr, primary source research, and what it means to stop treating Black Power as theory and start building it in every area of human activity.

This is a conversation about raised consciousness becoming raised behavior, Black love as institution, and the work required to bring the whole family Black home.

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

From the soil to the sky, yo, we building in eights.
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!

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⁣Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival 2026 Call for Submissions

A revolutionary Pan-Kmtyw 'Black People' film and media gathering rooted in Abibifahodie 'Black Liberation', ancestral continuity, and global Kmtyw resurgence.

This years theme: KEMET FOR THE KEMETYU: AT HOME AND ABROAD

3-Day Hybrid Event (October 16 - 18, 2026): virtually and physically in Accra, Ghana

We are seeking:
- Feature Films
- Documentaries
- Short Films
- Student Films
- Original Song & Music Videos
- AI / Animation

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2026

* Submit now on Film Freeway: filmfreeway.com/ABIBITUMIABIBIFAHODIEFILMFESTIVAL *

Part of the wider Abibitumi 'Black Power' Conference and the DOOR initiative