Kebuka!

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:58:32 +0200

Kabuka! is a powerful book written by Educator Mwalimu Baruti that admonishes African heritage people to take an emotional journey to the past to honor our enslaved African ancestors by living vicariously through their slave ship experience. To live through the pain and trauma of being kidnapped, captured, conquered, and enslaved, including the long walk to the oceanfront dungeons to be housed indefinitely, then on to slave ships Baruti describes as 'floating coffins.' Kabuki places you on that slave ship and forces you to experience what our ancestors experienced. It's a painful journey, one that Baruti himself took, and the author is encouraging us all to take it out of respect for the hundreds of millions of enslaved Africans who perished and were forever changed by enslavement.