Professor Bayyinah Bello offers her vast knowledge and wisdom on African "Our-story" and Spirituality on this weekly webinar series.

Mhenga Amos N. Wilson: Riot or Revolt Urban Responses to White Hegemony

Mhenga Amos N. Wilson Lecture:

Educating the Black Child According to the Developmental Psychology of the Black Child

Happy Independence
But how can we be happy in dependence
Relying on aid is a dead ting
Coz we lose out in trade and investment

There’ll be more pain in our future
Unless we get back the spirit of Nkrumah
There’s war around us from the East to the West
But the real battlefield is the one in our heads.

So dear African presidents where is ya honour
You’re supposed to be serve us with protection and armour
You let down your residents while serving ya donor
Sold us out quicker than boiled eggs in Ghana

Between broad daylight Elon hailing Nazis
And a black president killing Gaddafi
A bullet in the African freedom
That’s two Africans committing treason

Now see what’s happening in the region
So many ppl suffering and bleeding
Due to your lies and deceiving
When Africa’s given way more than receiving

So Mr church pastor what are you preaching
Portraying my Jesus as white’s misleading
Inferiority complex got us skin bleaching
And Nivea capitalising and reaping
I swear it’s frightening
Packaged as skin brightening
A crime to humanity calling for indictment
Our people are sick we need to heal more
That’s why we took down all your billboards

Been banging for my bruddas and sisters
I’m talking way back ancestors
So I couldn’t have it and I couldn’t let it slide when band aid and Geldof tried to take our pride

I done did it on my ones yea I did it alone
And they say that a prophet don’t get love in his home.

But I’m winning at home
Affirm my daughter she is perfect to the bone

And daddy’s been breaking doors
Remember the BET awards
They used to give it to us backstage
I tweeted I ain’t going that day
Coz how can you be black and not respect Africa’s name

Afrobeats harder than shaki
My Jamaicans love it like ackee
Spiritual e go move ya body
And I don’t even understand a word from Asake

So Mr Buju Bunton
What are you wanting
With all due respek
You are reaching and hunting
You sing songs based on Africa liberation
And when we liberated
You out here ranting

We have to move in unison
Bring Garvey’s philosophy to fruition
It’s a worldwide movement
One nation that’s the conclusion

How can we live and be free
The world will stay blind until DRCs
When disunited we’ll always be weak
That’s Nkrumah and Gaddafi

They had a vision of sovereignty
One nation one currency
Self reliant policy
Not one that was driven by the west
Or written to oppress
Nor built on foreign needs

But one to position and progress
They gave the framework so how can we forget
We stand on the shoulders of our forefathers
Our visionaries they wrote the commandments

And it goes…
1 we need to operate as one
2 it’s just us can’t rely on none
3 cut ties from western funds
4 is for sure build our own curriculum
5 African history democratised
Why
Coz we got to undo the lies
It’s time African narrative de-colonised
Coz our contribution made this world civilised
6 recognising we mineral rich
Take ownership and leverage economical shift
7 the people that’s true leadership
Whilst empowering the next generation of kids
8 is for the health care, no more health scare
No more flying overseas to get help there
Invest in local expertise that’s self care
Yes sir Big up Dr Jean Jacque Muyembe

9 is crucial grow our own food
Invest in our soil only way to be fruitful
Exploi(10) has to end
Now we can watch Africa rising again

So right now we’re in a special moment in time. Afrobeats has brought Africans across the globe together in a way that’s never been done.

And as you hear this, there’s a party going on somewhere in the world with Kenyans, Jamaicans, Americans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, South Africans all dancing to the same tune. Afrobeats is the most revolutionary form of Black music ever. Not because it has the most political or conscious lyrics but because it’s bringing so many different cultures from different backgrounds together to spend time around each other…..it’s spiritual. The more time we spend, the more trust that we built

And Trust is the key to our unity. Unity is our only hope of survival. This is how we build a nation this is the Spirit of New Africa.

So today, we honor and celebrate everybody who has contributed to this global wave.

AkwaabaUK
West Coast UK
Dentaa
Active promo

R2Bees
Ruff & Smooth
Sarkodie
Tiffany
Stay Jay
4x4
P Square
MoHits
DBanj
Don Jazzy
Wande Coal
Dr Sid
Tiwa Savage

Wizkid
Timaya
Davido
Flava
Burna

Afro B
Eazi
NSG
Jae 5

Tuface
Kas
Atumpan

Mista Silva
Kwamz & Flava
Skobz
Gizmo
Vibesquad
Moelogo

Rickie Davies
Iron
Maurice
Eddie Kadi
DJ Edu
Abrantee
JamJam
Neptizzle
Naija Boi
Jefflon
Mr Hackett
Sway
Killbeatz
Kaywa


Moe Musa
Tunde

Danai
Taponeswa

CEO Dancers
Sherri Silver

Selasi
KB
Unkle TC
Kurtis

Harm Kay
Adeshope
Joey B
Shatta
Stonebwoy

Too many names to mention but you guys are the unsung heroes so we’re giving you your flowers raaaa raaaa

A critical reading of Cheik Anta Diops perspective on Afrikan Philosophy

Busta929 drops his newly project named Sgubhu se Monate . Hope you're well wherever you are and God bless you . SIT TIGHT AND ENJOY THIS AMAZING MIXTAPE.DON'T FORGET TO LIKE, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY ENJOY!!!!!!!! :)

Recording of the virtual launch of AEF's new video, hosted on June 11th 2021.

With the participation of filmmaker Rucha Chitnis, AEF grantee partner Rutendo Zendah from the African Centre for Biodiversity and Pius Ranee from the North-East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society, as well as Anna Lappé from Panta Rhea Foundation, an AEF donor.

In a time where the Caribbean was terrorized by two category 5 hurricanes, we stand strong. Caribbean people are some of the most resilient on the planet. Despite the tragedy we still fete and party till we drop! With the ability to be free, we make sure we feel good, sip wine, drink rum, and tuhn up every party! With a wide Caribbean variety from Trinidad, Antigua, Jamaica, and St. Croix, you have the ultimate statement. “Unity and One Caribbean”. 2017 was rough but 2018 will be greater with the Liberty Riddim.

Produced by: Kevre’ L. Hendricks (Maestro)
Mixed and Mastered by: Andrew Denny
Artwork by: Cliff Smith

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SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER
Filipa César, Jin Mustafa – Meteorisations: Reading Amílcar Cabral's Agro-Poetics of Liberation
24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A reading of Amílcar Cabral’s agronomic writings exposes substrata of a syntax for liberation later performed in guerrilla language and the struggle against Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. This visual and sonic reading explores the definitions of soil and erosion that Cabral developed as an agronomist, as well as his reports on colonial land exploitation and analysis of the trade economy, to unearth his double agency as a state soil scientist and as a ‘seeder’ of African liberation. Cabral understood agronomy not merely as a discipline combining geology, soil science, agriculture, biology and economics but as a means to gain materialist and situated knowledge about peoples’ lived conditions under colonialism. The scientific data he generated during his work as an agronomist, along with his poetry, were critical to his theoretical arguments in which he denounced the injustices perpetrated on colonised land, and it later informed his warfare strategies.
Cabral used his role as an agronomist for the Portuguese colonial government subversively to further anti-colonial struggle. Cabral’s process of decolonisation was understood as a project of soil reclamation and national reconstruction in the postcolony. His agency as an agronaut ventures through soil cosmologies, mesologies, meteorisations, ‘atmos-lithos’ conflict zones, celluloid compost, violence of imperial consumption — the sugar question. Humble derives from Humus.

Performative lecture by Filipa César with sound by Jin Mustafa and images from Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes, 1974, Cape Verde.

This iteration of the lecture has been commissioned by Sonic Acts as a part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker interested in the porous boundaries between the moving image and its reception, the fictional dimensions of the documentary and the economies, politics and poetics inherent to cinema praxis. Characterised by rigorous structural and lyrical elements, her multiform meditations often focus on Portuguese colonialism and the liberation of Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s. This research developed into the collective project Luta ca caba inda (The Struggle Is Not Yet Over). She gained an MA Art in Context at the University of Arts, Berlin. Selected exhibitions and screenings include at the São Paulo Biennial, Manifesta 8, Cartagena, and the Contour 8 Biennial in Mechelen, Belgium, and Gasworks, London. Festival screenings include the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Curtas Vila do Conde, Forum Expanded at the Berlinale and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Jin Mustafa is a Stockholm-based visual artist, DJ and electronic music producer. Her work shifts between media, often taking the form of moving images, objects, sound and music. She is interested in the relationship between technology, imaginary spaces and questions of personal and collective memory. Recent exhibitions include I’m fine, on my way home now at Mossutställningar, Stockholm (2017); Ripple at Alta Art Space in collaboration with Signal, Malmö; If she wanted I would have been there once, twice or again at Zeller Van Almsick Gallery, Vienna; and a collaborative work with Natália Rebelo for Chart Emerging at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2018).

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NECESSITY OF BLACK INFERIORITY COMPLEX TO RACISM -Dr. Amos Wilson
When we talk about abnormality in the black personality, when we talk about feelings of inferiority in black people, feelings of self-hatred and self-alienation, feelings of incompetence and powerlessness, we must recognize that these feelings are A POLITICAL & ECONOMIC NECESSITY! And, we should start from that premise if we're to understand the psychology of black people. In order for us to be in the state we're in today as people, we have to be out of our MINDS! WE LITERALLY HAVE TO BE CRAZY! It's necessary for us to be crazy, it's necessary for us to be backwards, it's necessary for us to be mal-adjusted, it's necessary for us to be dis-united, it's necessary for us to be self-hating, it's necessary for us to be filled with an inferiority complex - Dr. Amos Wilson