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“In this inevitable and perpetual game of chase, we fail too often to consider whether the people we are concerned with catching up to know where they are being led or with whether it is in our interest to go where they are going.”
-Mwalimu Shujaa
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52 Blocks Seminar feature Professor Mo #africanmartialarts
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Too many African/Black people have a love affair with pseudo-consciousness. Perhaps false ideas and contrived identities have an emotional resonance that more valid and historically grounded notions lack. Perhaps the false ideas are more immediately intelligible, requiring no real work to understand and internalize. Or could it be that such…
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Those Proverbs. Fire.
I really liked reading the Yoruba one.
The “KiSwahili” one, though. That’s one for the ages.
(Side note: Anyone know of another name for “KiSwahili”? I’ve heard of KiBantu. I don’t like the fact that a Black Language is known by a non-black name).
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
The fool who does not hear,
He can do nothing at all;
He sees knowledge in ignorance,
Usefulness in harmfulness.
He does all that one detests
And is blamed for it each day;
He lives on that by which one dies,
His food is distortion of speech.
His sort is known to the officials,
Who say: “A living death each day,”
One passes over his doings,
Because…
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Any examples @heru_djet?
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Join us for the December Africa Forum where we will be discussing the film Death By a Thousand Cuts with our discussant Dr. William Leslie Balan Gaubert.
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Join us for the Africa Forum as we discuss the film Descendant.
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“Jamaica was unique among the countries in the New World, along with Brazil, Colombia, and Suriname, as having a strong tradition of maroonage and the persistence of local combative traditions. In general, one should be wary of creating too strong a connection between maroonage and the persistence of Afro-descended combative traditions. Barbados…
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Interesting that he calls it hoplogical…
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