African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors
This group is for the exploration of classical and traditional African deep thought (what some refer to... View more
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago“The year 1920 witnessed the First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World, organized by Garvey. At the opening session at Madison Square Garden, New York, an overflow crowd of twenty-five thousand filled the arena and spilled out into the streets. The other sessions took place in Liberty Hall in Harlem. Delegates, who came…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago“The leaders of most of these movements had been enslaved in or around Oyo and had almost certainly been sent to Bahia and Cuba from one of the busy ports of the Slave Coast (i.e., Whydah, Porto Novo, Badagry, and Lagos). The men, women, and children who were sent to Bahia and Cuba from these ports in the first half of the nineteenth century…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago · “Dessalines returned tit for tat. One morning after Rochambeau had brutally and savagely butchered 500 Black prisoners-of-war in frustration over losing a battle, Dessalines hung 500 French officers in plain sight of the French Army.”
-Jacob H. Carruthers, The Irritated Genie
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoa year ago (edited)
“The Old Oyo Empire, located north of the modern-day town of Oyo in southwestern Nigeria, rose to prominence in the 17th century and reached its peak in the 18th century. When the empire finally collapsed in 1835, it was territorially the largest and the most politically powerful Yoruba kingdom ever. Scholars do not agree on the extent of the…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoAh nuh all roof a shelta.
“Not all roofs can provide shelter.”
-Jamaican proverb
Explanation: Things are not always what they appear to be. Something that is presented as helpful, may in fact be detrimental.
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