Why will you opt for a Kente woven fabric or an Adinkra cloth for an occasion- As a country, have we optimized the use of these traditional fabrics and how can it boost our tourism- Wend.mp4

In this episode, I take up a request from one of our dear subscribers to Powered by Ancestry and then dive into what's commonly referred to as totems--an animal held to have spiritual significance and adopted as an emblem--or what I call spiritual animals. Using my Akan folks' deep knowledge as a guide, I walk viewers through some essential facts of said spiritual animals and how they operate in the life of a person. Note: the leopard is the "spirit animal" for both my maternal and paternal clans, though I focus more on the latter in this episode, and a correction: the disembodied ↄbosom associated with lake Bosomtwe is called Akwasi Bosomtwe Akowuakra, not Kwaku Bosomtwe. Enjoy!

This is a clip from a speech by our great #PanAfrikan Ancestor - Baba Amos Wilson.

In recent months, a clip of Amos Wilson has been doing the rounds as leaders & advocates of the #ADOS hashtag attempt to use his words to justify negative sentiments towards "Black Immigrants" to the USA.

We are all entitled to our Political Ideology. What we are not entitled to do is distort the legacies of our Ancestors. Our Ancestors deserve to be represented by us, for exactly what they stood for. The deliberate distortion of the legacy of our great #PanAfrikan Ancestor is unfortunate... and it must be corrected.

This clip is an attempt to put the legacy of Amos Wilson in proper context for those who may be new to his work.

Today I’m talking to Professor Elijah Zehyoue on Walter Rodney’s magnum opus: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Professor Elijah Zehyoue is a historian of politics, religion, and social change in Africa and the African Diaspora. As a specialist of West African History, Professor Zehyoue's research is focused on the impact of slavery and colonialism on West African polities and people in the 19th and 20th century.

Professor Zehyoue's book The Invisible Hands of War will be released in the coming years.

⁣Professor James Small is a scholar activist, dynamic speaker, and organizational consultant.

Prof. James Small has been an activist since his teenage years. His in-depth knowledge, thought-provoking and calm delivery are influential elements to break the programming of mis-education. He studies extensively with Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef A. A. ben Jochannan, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Amos Wilson and Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, just to name a few

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his 2024 State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Cape Town on Thursday, February 8. The speech, at the annual opening of parliament, brings together the National Assembly (NA) and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) for a joint sitting. Ramaphosa's SONA is expected to cover a wide range of political, economic and social matters. Traditionally, the president also makes key government announcements during the address. -

The Empire of Wagadu (Ouagadou), more commonly known as the Ghana Empire, was a powerful state in the Medieval Sahel of West Africa, and one of the earliest in written record. With origins in antiquity and a reputation for wealth and glory in contemporary sources, it has long been an icon of Black history, though today it tends to be overshadowed by the later Mali Empire.

This video is part of Untold Black History, a collaboration organized by Jabari from From Nothing with the intention of shedding light on the history of Africans and the African diaspora. Check out the full playlist here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?l....ist=PLivC9TMdGnL93RM

Special thanks to@schrodingersmoose for providing the voice of al-Bakri, @KenKwameWrites for providing the voice of al-Zūhri, and @MostlyMiSinging for providing the collaboration theme!

Maps based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOexUoPc6YU

Sources:
Bennison, Amira K. “The Almoravids: Striving in the Path of God.” In The Almoravid and Almohad Empires, 24–61. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvhrczbp.8.

Burkhalter, Sheryl L. “Listening for Silences in Almoravid History: Another Reading of ‘The Conquest That Never Was.’” History in Africa 19 (1992): 103–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3171996.

Conrad, David, and Humphrey Fisher. “The Conquest That Never Was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I. The External Arabic Sources.” History in Africa 9 (1982): 21–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3171598.

D'Andrea, A.C., Casey, J. Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence. African Archaeological Review 19, 147–173 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016518919072

Ehret, Christopher. The Civilizations of Africa a History to 1800. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Gomez, Michael. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Hopkins, J.F.P, and Nehemia Levtzion. Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Cambridge , England: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Kevin McDonald, Robert Vernet, Dorian Fuller and James Woodhouse, "New Light on the Tichitt Tradition" A Preliminary Report on Survey and Excavation at Dhar Nema," pp. 78–80.

Mauny, Raymond. “Campagne De Fouilles à Koumbi Saleh .” Bibliotheque Numerique sur la Mauritanie, 1951. https://web.archive.org/web/20....110726200810/http://

Mauny, R. A. “The Question of Ghana.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 24, no. 3 (1954): 200–213. https://doi.org/10.2307/1156424.

McDougall, E. Ann. Review of Research in Saharan History, by James L. A. Webb Jr. The Journal of African History 39, no. 3 (1998): 467–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/183363.

McIntosh, Susan Keech. “A Reconsideration of Wangara/Palolus, Island of Gold.” The Journal of African History 22, no. 2 (1981): 145–58. doi:10.1017/S002185370001937X.

Munson, Patrick J. “Archaeology and the Prehistoric Origins of the Ghana Empire.” The Journal of African History 21, no. 4 (1980): 457–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/182004.

“State Building in Ancient West Africa: From the Tichitt Neolithic Civilization to the Empire of Ghana (2,200BC-1250AD.).” State building in ancient west Africa: from the Tichitt Neolithic civilization to the empire of Ghana (2,200BC-1250AD). African History Extra, March 27, 2022. https://isaacsamuel.substack.c....om/p/state-building-

00:00 Introduction
01:01 The Basics of Wagadu
01:55 The Sahel
03:13 The Salt-Gold Trade
05:15 Government in Wagadu
06:52 The Capital
09:21 Archaeology
11:55 Religion
14:55 Islam in Wagadu
17:06 The Almoravids
21:14 Decline and Fall
22:53 Conclusion

Twitter: https://twitter.com/somas_academy

⁣M’Bwebe Ishangi Talks About Our Need for Financial Therapy: How to Create Intergenerational Wealth To Withstand the Coming 4th Industrial Revolution!

We all need some kind of financial therapy and don’t even know it. Our relationship with money has mainly been on a “work-for-then-spend” cycle proven to prohibit us from creating sustainability, forcing us to work until we are no longer employable—but still have debt that increases from inflation and the overall cost of living.

Thinking this is just how life is supposed to be, unaware there are multi-century-old and modern money methodologies shared by privileged families, we continue the generational curse of economic disparity that’s purely driven through racism.

Those days are now over. Financial Therapist, M’Bwebe Ishangi will speak on the causes and cures of our delayed ability to build individual, intergenerational, and even communal wealth that will leave you with next steps to not only break this curse, but see how it was designed so you’ll be able to discontinue repeating “his”story’s malicious monetary design to delay our ability to self-determine!

It starts with us looking deeply into how we can think, feel, communicate, and behave differently with money to improve our overall well-being.

Ishangi will show you how…

Tune in via Zoom to Ishangi via Ghana’s Black-owned platform, AbibitumiTV.com Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 3pEST.

REGISTER TODAY ($10): https://www.abibitumi.com/shop/financialtherapy/

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A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) and Kiswahili
Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon and Dr. Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
LAG 2015 ||| TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 ||| 8:30AM
KNUST ||| COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

TwiSwahili or KiswaTwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) and Kiswahili
Abstract
In Akan and Kiswahili, there are several proverbs that express the same underlying idea, oftentimes in the exact same or similar ways. Examples of these include:
1. a. Kikulacho kinguoni mwako
That which eats you (up) is in your clothing
b. Aboa bi bɛkawo a, naɛfiri wo ntoma mu
If a bug will bite you, it’s from in your cloth
2. a. Chakula chema hakihitaji kawa
Good food needs no coverlet against the flies.
b. Adepa tɔn ne ho
A good thing sells itself.
c. Nkyene nkamfo ne ho.
Salt does not praise itself.
There are several possible reasons why these parallel proverbs exist. In one line of thinking, the similarities may be due to contact phenomena such as shared cultural and/or historical experiences. Another perspective may be due to the demonstrably genetic relationship between Akan and Kiswahili languages. In this study, however, we will examine these proverbs in parallel or near-parallel and demonstrate that regardless of the facts of the two aforementioned lines of inquiry, these proverbs attest to a shared African worldview.

Psychology of… a Jamaican television show made by Jamaicans in Jamaica about Jamaicans being Jamaican is created by Ideate That Limited, with ID8TOR, Executive Producer & Host - Jackie Jacqueline Jackson.

This 3-part edutainment series will discuss the Psychology of… Bad Mind (#POBM) by looking at the mindset and behavioral traits associated with being ‘Bad Mind’. The show will feature insights from meaningful conversations with Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Sociologist, Linguist, Artist, Entrepreneur, youth and other Jamaicans.

#POBM, is a fulsome, lifestyle, variety, mini/docu-series that will explore the origin, history and use of the colloquial terminology ‘Bad Mind’, which is widely used by all Jamaicans locally and across the diaspora.

#Psychologyof #BadMind #PsychologyofBadMind #POBM #Season1