Imagine how difficult something as simple as a name made it for Africans in the New World to be Africans. Imagine if the Europeans were a little more imaginative and a lot more enlightened and instead of naming the Caribbean the West Indies they named it the West of West Africa. With a simple name change centuries ago it could …
{youtubejw}NURJhjJAajU{/youtubejw} African men get a bad rap. They overpopulate our prisons, and our politics, and they receive the brunt of the blame for all of our problems. Everyone is constantly trying to fix the African man and whatever he does, he feels not good enough. The world’s war on the African man has obscured the real tragedy, which is the …
The other day I got upset about something. Reflecting on it I realize how I became a “participant in human drama” by letting my ego get the best of me. I am a member of a dance group for Junkanoo. When I joined the group I learned they had some drama in recent history, but after a shakeup everyone was …
I finally created my ancestor altar. I was stalling for a little while, not sure why, but one day the spirit just moved me to go in the backyard and find stuff to put it together. Using two cement blocks and a white cloth, I created a little tabletop for a candle, calabash with water, old man’s beard, sand, shells, …
I have a slight problem. In a weird way, my spiritual awakening is bringing out my sensuality. I never knew my feminine energy could be so sensual and alluring, to myself that is. It is like I am loving myself even more with this new awareness. I feel the feminine Goddess awakening in me.