Description

Visions of KMT — Malenga (2025)

Under the banner KWENTO XPR HNA SXM KM, Visions of KMT is the sensory counterpart to Ọheneba’s charge. If Make KMT Black Again was the horn blown at sunrise to summon the builders, this album is the walk through the city we’re reclaiming. It does not theorize recapturing KMT—it stands inside it. It sounds like the fabrics, the palm wine, the Kantanka’s on the road, the voices of the living and the returned. Malenga builds a parallel to the Dikenga cycle: dawn, growth, return, sunset. The music carries the weight of what recovering our world looks like in real time—physically, spiritually, intimately, communally.

Across the album, each track marks a step in the journey of restoring KMT: Ride It Out frames endurance as the first law of nation-building; Functional Hatred confronts foreign ways and centers protection of our own; Visions of KMT celebrates a Black Powerful world built on our terms; Retribution names the blood-debt owed to the Kmtyw and refuses compensation; Komplementarity and Better Than shape relationships and covenant as the foundation of Black homes; Ancestors Returned honors children as returned spirits charged with destiny; So Amazed witnesses abundance created by community; Simba Simbi enforces reciprocity; Waiting For challenges inaction; Work to Do commits to execution; Sunset re frames transition as continuation; and To Nana Olugbala salutes disciplined resistance and demands we pick up the work where our Grandcestors left off.

A full lyrics booklet is included for study and teaching, because this is music meant to be used: recited, annotated, translated, embodied.

Why it matters

• It imagines KMT not as nostalgia or museum glass, but as the world we rebuild—physically, culturally, spiritually.
• It trains the senses: what our cities, families, relationships, and futures should feel like.
• It teaches Dikenga as life practice: birth, purpose, union, transition.
• It marks the values of the Kmtyw—Sankɔfa, reciprocity, covenant, retribution, family, legacy.

Tracklist (Core Set)
Ride it Out • Functional Hatred • Visions of KMT • Retribution • Komplementarity • Better Than (ft. Ọheneba) • Ancestors Returned • So Amazed • Simba Simbi • Waiting For • Work to Do • Sunset • to Nana Olugbala (Assata Shakur)

Included: Album Lyrics Booklet

Imprint: KWENTO XPR HNA SXM KM
Directive: NOT TO BE SHARED ON CESSPOOL MEDIA PLATFORMS