⁣On Maat and Nsyt ‘Rulership’

Acoustic version of Malian singer Oumou Sangare's classic Saa Magni. From her album 'Acoustic'.

⁣Prof Emeritus Théophile Obenga on the African Origin of so-called Greek Education and Philosophy

⁣Seba Bonotchi - Understanding Ma'at as a System of Choreographic Behavior

⁣Reduplication is one of the most sophisticated linguistic tools in human language and Jamaicans have been doing it for centuries.
Linguists at Cambridge, UC Berkeley, and Oxford have studied this phenomenon across hundreds of languages. What they found? Repeating a word to intensify, extend, or deepen its meaning is a grammatically structured, cognitively grounded system — and it is especially alive and well in West and Central African languages like Akan, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and Gbe.
When enslaved Africans were brought to Jamaica in the 17th century, they came from dozens of different language groups — but reduplication was a thread common across all of them. It survived the Middle Passage. It survived colonialism. It survived centuries of being told our language was "broken."
It didn't survive by accident. It survived because it works.
Saying something twice feels like doing it twice. Feeling it twice. Meaning it more. Linguists call this iconicity — when the form of a word mirrors its meaning. It's one of the most natural things a human being can do with language, documented even in how babies first learn to speak.
So the next time someone tells you Patois isn't a real language — tell them wi no chat so by accident.
Wi carry Africa ina wi mout!

Skill, brains and guts chronicles the rise, the fall and the second coming of the confident Muhammad Ali. Shows footage from significant bouts and pre- and post-fight interviews with Ali.

Jamiekan se "a" bifuor di vob fi mek yu nuo wa "a" gwaan. Dem kaal 'progressive aspect'. Jamiekan siem laka Igbo an Yoruba -- big op 'Jamaican Sinting' chanl.

Dr. Charles S. Finch III: Kemetic Origin of Christianity - SCETV

DocuDrama: Goodbye Uncle Tom [1971]

⁣Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.


⁣The film is based on true events in which the filmmakers explore antebellum America, using period documents to examine in graphic detail the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery.

⁣As the Workers' District faces extreme strain and Elu's political
climate worsens, Iyanu intensifies her training with Mama Sewa while two
formidable military forces converge on the Riverlands Settlement to
capture her.