Presenter: Dr. Amina Blackwood Meeks
Founder and Artistic Director of Ananse SoundSplash,

Ananse, the Spider-god of the Akan people of Ghana has survived in stories across the African diaspora. This qualifies him to be a symbol of African cultural retention. Yet he continues to be regarded with ambivalence. This perhaps mirrors the value placed on African retention, still searching for an honourable place in national life, excluded from discourse about “serious matters” such as national development and education, made to operate at the margins as entertainment, as metaphor for the undesirable and confined to spaces of near invisibility. Yet the impact of globalisation on the identity of post- colonial peoples and the resources available to determine their own agenda demand a change in this profile.

Whether you're a student, researcher, cultural practitioner, or simply curious about Jamaica’s heritage, this session will deepen your understanding of the African elements that continue to enrich our culture.

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Morocco is literally on the African continent. On the map, there’s no debate. But talk to many Moroccans and you hear stuff like “We’re Arab, we’re Mediterranean, we’re Amazigh” anything but Africa. That gap is evident in how Black people are treated, whether they are Black Moroccans whose families have been there for centuries, or migrants from further south just trying to pass through the Maghreb and stay alive. So what is going on here? Is this just an identity crisis at the edge of the Sahara, or something much deeper, a long history of slavery, Arab supremacy, anti-Black prejudice and European racial thinking all fused into one? How does a country that is physically part of Africa end up with such a persistent rejection of Blackness, and what does that mean for the Black people who have no other home but Morocco itself?


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What does natural hair really represent?

Across African societies, hair has long been a form of identity — communicating status, culture, and belonging. But through slavery, colonialism, and global beauty standards, these meanings were reshaped.

In this episode of the Sankofa Pan African Series, we explore the history and meaning of natural hair across Africa and the diaspora.

As part of our International Women’s Month series — African Women: Roots, Resistance & Rising — this episode examines how something deeply personal reflects broader histories of power.

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Mela Caribe x Machel Montano x DJ Private Ryan - Dancing in the Streets
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Song title - Dancing in the Streets
Artists - Mela Caribe, Machel Montano, DJ Private Ryan
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Writers - Shereese Edmund, Machel Montano & Ryan Alexander
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Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards.

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Register for today’s comprehensive presentation: https://www.abibitumi.com/crimeagainsthumanity Before today’s presentation, “Ghana’s UN Resolution: Transatlantic Slave Trade a Crime Against Humanity,” this BBC interview with Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon offers important context on the stakes of the moment: the significance of Ghana’s UN resolution, the limits of symbolic recognition alone, the implications for reparations, and why DOOR points toward self-reparations through repatriation and rebuilding. The event page describes today’s session as a discussion of the resolution’s historical, legal, political, and global implications, tied directly to DOOR as a concrete form of self-reparations. In this BBC interview conducted on Thursday, March 26, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon discusses the significance of Ghana’s push for international recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity, the limits of UN resolutions, and why self-reparations through repatriation must remain central to the work ahead.This interview explores:• the symbolic and diplomatic importance of the UN resolution• why recognition alone is not enough• the ongoing realities and effects of enslavement• the distinction between state reparations and self-reparations• why repatriation is a practical pathway forward right nowToday’s presentation begins at 7pm GMT / 3pm EST on March 28, 2026 and is presented by Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon through Abibitumi. Register for today’s presentation:https://www.abibitumi.com/crimeagainsthumanityLearn more:https://www.decadeofourrepatri....ation.comhttps://www #door #repatriation #ghana #diaspora #reparations #selfreparations #blackpower #abibitumi

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