the Hope to Break free!!

Black Woman in blue by Ike Slimster

There is a lot of space to be filled with the stories about the essence and the survival of Black African daughters, who have come from a dark past in relation to Europeans. But, there are the centuries before our Dark Centuries with the whites, we do not talk about because we only think of ourselves in terms of enslavement. This dark space in our souls is our history connecting us to Europe after we opened the world-at-large to them. There is no Europe or America without the Blacks from the Land of the Blacks!. . . ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [August 8, 2018]

EPIDEMICS: diseases of soul and bodies in our world!

Black Theology, Black Church

Many church goers are seeking individual salvation. Family and community is actually closer to being "Christian". I am convinced that the Kingdom of Heaven begins in the family. Return to the civility of our deeper mind to transcend the madness. "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." African Proverb. The dominant culture still regards us as property, so we are forced to access divine wisdom as a collective that has eroded in too many of our youth. This is our responsibility.


The selfish angel dominated the children of God. He rapes the powerful and the weak. As a liar and a thief, he successfully educates the privileged to exploit the exploitable and feel satisfied while he rapes the human collective, causing all to behave like his children and not God's. We must address the pathology of contempt from the individual to the collective. The lust for power creates pirates who do not apologize for their behavior. - Adruma Victoria (2017) 

Mothers2Mothers. www.w4.org-health-hiv-nyamata 

African Mothers and AIDS 

Mothers2Mothers, an international non-profit organization, based in Cape Town, South Africa was born in 2001, was founded by Frank Beadle de Palomo and Robin Smalley. Mothers2Mothers work with pregnant mothers, and new mothers who are HIV+, empowering, teaching, training and employing the mothers. These women become advocates for the millions of women in sub-Saharan Africa to fight through the myths about HIV/AIDS for better quality to life, and a myriad of concerns facing the countries of Africa; not as common here in the United States! The infected women receive treatment, while pregnant, preventing the transmission of the disease to their unborn children. These mentor mothers empower and educate other mothers throughout sub-Saharan Africa in a concentrated way to diminish the transmission of HIV, and better equip mothers with the tools they need in their environments! In sub-Saharan Africa 200 babies a day are infected with the virus. 1.3 million pregnant women live with the virus in this region; it is estimated!

My research suspects this is a modest estimation to ease the enormity of the epidemic. Remember this is an epidemic! Now it is possible to reduce the chances of babies born with the virus to as low as 5% by technological advancements approved, and made profitable for Western countries to pour into Africa! Mothers2Mother is an organization, a movement to support, get behind and emulate in related fields of concern for women throughout the African Diaspora! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/17/18

Robin Smalley, co-founder of Mothers2Mothers!

Deception.

"From the outset, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has incorrectly presumed the stupidity of Africans and others who are concerned about the continent. To answer accusations that the U.S. uses its military to ensure continuing imperialist domination of Africa, AFRICOM has stubbornly insisted that its sole objectives are to advise and support the armies of African government “partners” and to prov...ide humanitarian assistance. But we know the truth to be otherwise.

U.S. Army General Donald Bolduc shamelessly told NBC News: “America is not at war in Africa. But its partner forces are.” But even a soldier can recognize the farce. Former Green Beret Derek Gannon said: “[U.S. military involvement in Africa] is called Low Intensity Irregular Warfare, yet technically it’s not considered war by the Pentagon. But warfare is warfare to me.”

The U.S. maintains two facilities in Africa that qualify as military bases. However, according to NBC the U.S. increased the number of embassy-based military missions called “Offices of Security Cooperation” from nine in 2008 to 36 in 2016. Researchers say the U.S. military now has a presence in at least 49 African countries... by Mark P. Fancher 

FIGHT OF OUR GENERATIONS!

Yvonne DeCarlo, aka Lily Munster from The Munsters.

What Colored or white boy didn't have a thing for Lily Munster on the old show, The Adams Family in the 1960's? She was fine, sexy in a way outside of what a boy would understand but would feel and translate as something else in his fantasy. But, outside of those shared moments when TV shows were on back in those days the way we watched television as a collective at the same time on the same channels the race wars, and the blood sports of whites on Colored peoples raged on. Whites trying to justify themselves was a shameful display of emotions to make up for the justifications of racial superiority whites said to themselves and each other. Whites didn't see it that way, nor could they ever grasp how absurd they looked and sounded. They just saw and relished the terror they inspired and instilled.

It is true to this day, but outside of that whites like to believe they are distant from their recent past which has not rectified itself, or overcome any obstacle they created to make their way to bring peace to fellow citizen's, or thought of how to see the absurdity of their claims of supremacy, of right, of freedom. In their reluctance they place their trust in what cannot work because anything or anybody that works against the common good cannot create trust, build communities, or fortify what or who needs the fort. So, what did white folks do in their logic? They put Trump in office who is their mirror they cannot use properly to see themselves.


1964- The owner of the Monson Motel pours acid in the swimming pool to force the black children out who attempted to integrate the pool. This is the same hotel that denied entry to Martin Luther King Jr that same year. It became an important location in the St. Augustine Movement, which is a major part of the Civil Rights movement in the 60’s.

2016 - Presidential hopeful Donald Trump gives white Americans hope in their dream to the exclusion of those they despise. What he does is pour illusion upon the truths, and drove the thinking class away from the real dynamic that could expand upon the good work of President Obama, and past presidents, and capitalize upon the brilliance of President Obama's principals, and the genius of the work he did manage to get done that was genius.


Unable to see far all stock was placed in undermining the country to undermine a Black president to be able to say, "I told you so. Nothing he did worked." Where truth fits in is of no consequence. Facts have no place or voice in a thinking process supported by the "scientific evidence" of white's superiority over others. In other words, Donald Trump is going to make American Great again! This leaves the many in society to think, "OK. What do I do, and how do I participate?" In Black America and Indian country we know better than that to entertain that misconception. We know what making American great means. We have the truth of it. We all have ancestors killed to make American great!

First of all, thinking is not the bane of civilization. It is the crust of the pie. Many American citizens need to separate their lives from spectating and get involved in what matters as aggressive participants. I know the success of waging war on Iraq, in large part, was dependent upon the slogan: "Let's Not Have Another Vietnam!" What that meant was kept vague. To the uniformed and the average American (oh, am I being redundant?) that meant no more scrutiny of conscience, and history or the facts coming into focus with the question: "Why did we go to war in Vietnam?"

But, that aside I want to probe into the deepest problem.


The athletic ability of sex is not the texture or tenor of sexuality imbued with sacred powers. How this fundamental truth escapes most is because we have been totally seeped into the essence of what white people come from as evidenced by the Greek's sexual depravity and the well documented depravity of the European exhibited with ease in their abilities to subjugate. Black Americans need to cleanse themselves of the illusions forced on us in a brutal, systematic and consistent way during their occupation by slavery and murder.

I am charging Black Americans to see what has been in our faces the entire duration of our relationship with whites: the order of importance of Greek thought. In this order, if you reexamine what we learned in school man on boy was the ideal of love, and proper sexual relations. The love between women and men was non-existent meaning: romantic love between men and women was not their ideal. By their own words, their own philosophers, like Plato, women were for procreation, marriage with a woman was an economic tie.

They had to have children. How else could they have sex and enjoy it without children? The Greek rules of man on boys had its rules and had its name, which I cannot remember at present. What I do remember with clarity over the span of my lifetime is the vague references to sexual depravity inherent within white men's humor, and the saying white men said amongst themselves during the torture and hanging of Colored men.

"A man ain't a man 'til he's had a nigger!" They sodomized Black men during the torture or after they killed them, however they killed them.

This dynamic is coming out with force in the decades since Gay Activists laid down in writing their agenda point by point. One of their chief insistences is the freedom to have sex with whomever and whatever they want. Children are not safe in this dynamic; not safe by any stretch of the imagination. So, the question goes to Black men and Red men: who will protect the innocent?

Within the deepest problem in the Black community is the feminization of boys and men. The horrors of what that means flies into the 'righteous' fervor of the Gay activist movement passing themselves off as a benevolent force and a practical lifestyle with logical retorts to any opponents. Black Americans need to take this on as a matter of life and death, not only for our sakes, and our children's sake, but for Africans living at home in their countries like Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and so on. Why? Because in African nations the problem is deep and a horror story of unprecedented proportions! Black Americans need to school Africans at home because we've been through what they are experiencing now! Our knowledge is their salvation!

We need to unlearn a great deal and the real men, the alpha men of the darker hue need to come out in their strength and clarity because without our dynamic force the white agenda will grow even more powerful and Black America will be no more than a part of a centuries long cultural phenomenon of sexual depravity that Greek culture is and is the core of the American whites. More and more children in general will be taken from their parents into the sex trade, and cannibalism in some quarters; death after sex in other quarters of the world-at-large.

Our ancients have seen this from the beginning and never been proven wrong. Pain and deep suffering and the surgical removal of spirit, spirit powers connected to African cultures, and dark spirituality the whites performed on us changed us into vessels for semen, rape, and degradation never seen at the scale it is today compared to our yesterday with the white people. There is no time to find and save the 'good' white people. That has never worked. It is time to study the Black Africans who have successfully defeated white powers. It is a question of life and death this one thing.

If the presidency of Donald Trump means anything it means our Elders need take our boys and train and initiate them properly and to make our men not lost, men. Men are our protectors. Without the protectors no one is safe. Simple math. It is simple math and the hard work of unlearning, and the even harder work of facing the whites with power with these truths in the name of being men, and protectors and warriors at the deepest level protecting our women, our children and communities with the knowledge that killing, if necessary, and taking back what was taken is our first priority!


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Dec. 29, 2016

1964 a pool owner pours acid on Negro children to get them outa the white pool.

Book. Question. Did Africans cultivate culture in Europe.

"Africans have been historically portrayed as savages to support European colonialism and missionary agendas to exploit African natural resources. Were the ancient Egyptians black? Did Egyptian explorers land in Greece some 4,000 years ago? Did they plant colonies, establish royal houses, and bring civilization to Europe’s savage tribes? Did the secret rites of their temple cults resurface among the Knights Templar and Freemasons?" - anon

wHAT DO wE wANT fROM AFRICA?



Senegalese woman belongs to the Serer people who are the third largest ethnic group in the country.

Africa

U.S. Increases Antiterrorism Exercises With African Militaries

By HELENE COOPER MAY 26, 2016

ARUSHA, Tanzania — After a series of terrorist attacks on hotels and other tourist sites that raised concerns all across Africa, the United States has increased training exercises with militaries here, focusing on how to defend civilian targets on a continent that has become a significant battleground in the war against militant Islam.

 

In Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, United States Army troops simulated an elaborate hostage rescue with West African forces this month. The combined forces stormed a building, shot mock militants and secured the hostages.

 

In Kenya, American trainers funded by the State Department have been working with police commandos on how to respond to terrorist attacks like the Westgate shopping mall raid in 2013, when fighters with the Shabab, the local affiliate of Al Qaeda, killed 67 people and wounded 175 more.

 

And in Gabon next month, paratroopers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division — after crossing the Atlantic from their Fort Bragg, N.C., headquarters — are scheduled to jump out of a plane and straight into a joint exercise, part of an effort to train Central African militaries in elaborate raids, strikes and rescue missions.

 

The training effort between the American military and its African partners is a far cry from the days when the Pentagon viewed the continent as a place to avoid, fearing open-ended United Nations peacekeeping missions.

 

“In the past, Africa was seen through the peacekeeping lens,” said Jennifer Cooke, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

 

But now, she said, “the U.S. looks at Africa differently.”

 

“Some of the threats, whether it’s Al Shabab, ISIL, Boko Haram or AQIM, pose a more direct and sophisticated threat to African states, to European allies, and potentially to the United States,” she added.

 

Those four militant Islamist extremist groups — the Shabab in East Africa, the Islamic State affiliate in Libya, Boko Haram in Central and West Africa, and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb region of West Africa — are widely believed to be the terrorist organizations that pose the most direct threat to civilians across the continent.

 

At an African Land Forces Summit meeting here last week, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Army chief of staff, urged his African counterparts to draw on their own experiences battling colonial European powers to fight the four terrorist groups.

“Many of you in this room are descendants of fighters who practiced guerrilla warfare against the French, the British, the colonial forces of Europe,” General Milley told senior military officials from 37 African countries. “Embedded in your armies is the knowledge of how to fight guerrilla warfare.”

But defending “soft targets” — military jargon for hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls and other places where unarmed civilians congregate — is difficult for sophisticated militaries, let alone the continent’s fledging security forces.

 

American law restricts the Pentagon’s direct work with African police forces — that is done through the State Department — so the American military often finds itself struggling to make sure that its training is going to the people most likely to be charged with carrying out missions like rescuing hostages.

 

“It’s going to take time,” General Milley said during his speech at the Arusha meeting, “but we’re going to do this selectively, without abusing people.”...  more

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Senegalese commandos in American led training exercises.
photo by Sergey Ponomarev for New York Times. (2016)

 

Rich White, Black Wife!

White Billionaires Prefer To Date Black Women; Because They Are ‘Loyal’ the Ghanaian article blared!

I think it is worth the listen, but I recognize by a couple of dismissive comments the writer said that this is an observation piece of American culture by a Ghanaian. This is important to weigh because here in the States we are lost and absorbed in the dream, the fantastic illusions of our wealth and comfort and don't know how we look.

Anyway, here is the article. Read it and make your assessments. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.25.16



An interesting sociological trend has been recently observed within the small circles of the wealthy and powerful. Tabloids and other news outlets that specialize on gossip and lifestyle are reporting that more billionaire men can be seen with gorgeous and elegant dark-skinned women by their sides.
In reality, this observation is nothing new. In and of itself, powerful businessmen have been choosing women with African genes as their soul mates for centuries. However, a couple of online articles that were widely shared and circulated in early 2013 made it seem as if a handful of billionaire men and their peers suddenly paid attention to black women. Such is not the case; millionaires and billionaires have been interested in women of various skin tones and ethnic backgrounds for as long as they can remember, but the gossip media machine seems to have only recently paid attention to this matter.

That some very wealthy men prefer dark-skinned as their romantic partners is not surprising. What was surprising was a quote initially attributed to American tech investors Ben Horowitz, who ostensibly stated that black women made better wives because they are for grownups. Mr. Horowitz has made millions by making smart investments and wise decisions, not by making silly statements; he never uttered such nonsense, but he does have a gorgeous black woman by his side.

Aside from Mr. Horowitz, we know of other successful men whose dazzling partners are dark-skinned women. Robert DeNiro, Peter Norton, George Lucas, David Bowie, and the Prince of Liechtenstein come to mind in this regard, and these are just a few Western men who happen to be regularly reported on by the tabloid media. If we turn our attention to the African continent, we will find that the majority of men who are millionaires and billionaires over there have dark-skinned women as partners, and this is not by any means surprising.

If anything, the advent of Internet technology in the Information Age has made us more receptive to various constructs. Members of Generation X may recall a time when the tabloid and gossip media machine focused on a purported trend among successful African American men who apparently chose women of a different race as their partners.

This gossip item ended up being much ado about nothing since it only focused on a small circle of athletes, entertainers, and a handful of wealthy businessmen. To a certain extent, what we are seeing now is the opposite, and we should not believe it too much.

In the end, wealthy and powerful men are going to choose soul mates based on what their hearts and physical preferences tell them, and we can safely expect that beautiful, kindhearted dark-skinned women will continue to captivate them.  [author unidentified]




Must Read:  A White Woman’s opinion on Black Women


 

Black Americans looking at African Women

Traditional woman from somewhere in Africa.

"Black Americans are fond of declaring any picture of an African woman in traditional garb are queens or a princess. How do you know she is a princess? Is princess a role within her culture? What tribe does she hail from? Africa is so large and complex. There are hundreds of languages and cultures and the nations have traditions and customs too many to sweep away with vague tributes. . .

But when it is an African woman fresh in the United States it is a different reaction. Black Americans are quick to distance themselves from Africans with disgust. The two seldom interact in daily life." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Dawn Wolf) 11/19/15

 

big Black woman in the woods

 

 

 

modern royalty

 

 

"Why do African or Black American women have to be labeled a queen, a warrior or a combination of the two ideals? Is it a longing, a gap in the spaces between who one is and who one's ancestors used to be? Is there a chasm in the sense of self that needs exaltation, or is it a boast against the boast of white people's sense of being superior, or is it all of the above assembled into one declaration?"

 

 - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Nov. 19, 2015)

naked Black couple

women's

In Waters Where Whales Live . .

"In waters where whales live I dreamt, but never swam. I can't swim in water. I can flow in dreams in time with the ebb and flow of water, as I did and remember doing in my mother's womb. The dance in the womb is not different from dancing beneath the sea, the ocean, or the rivers of water upon the land. What is different is the safety of one, and the inherent dangers of the others.

Not being able to swim in either of the oceans I've waded in both from either side with the whales invisible to me, but present to themselves. The Black ancestors from one ocean, and the Red relatives from the other oceans don't sing of me, they murmur below where it is audible for me to discern their languages. I can intuit the stories of Africans in the Atlantic. Feeling every emotion from their individual lives during the Middle Passage I cannot enter the Atlantic until I leave an offering of tobacco with my words. Those moments come across as magical pulls into the deep where I suddenly realize it was at a place of no return, and began to feel the panic of drowning. As terrible and terrifying as panic is panic creates spontaneous actions and creative ideas surface. Drowning in those waters, and remembering I had not Medicine powers with Water Spirits the idea to let go as a child was revolutionary and it saved my life..." - Gregory E. Woods, DawnWolf,  Keeper of Stories

February 17, 2014 at 10:46am ·

 

Healing AFRICA Healing SELF

"Africa is the birth place of our connections to other worlds, the entrance to the deep mysteries as yet unfathomable by wrong thinking, and the birth place of the major religions that have shaped the world. Here in this land lie the resources that have killed the soul of millions from the weight of murder, greed and industry. The redemption of the world's spirit lies underneath the pounding of machines, bloodied bodies splayed out in tortured designs upon the very Earth Mother capable of being nurtured by the laws of regeneration prophets listen to and speak of to the masses unable to see the soul of the Land of the Blacks.

Africa is a light in a darkness cast by many beings that vacillate between understanding her, using her, worshiping her, and embracing her!" - Gregory E. Woods, 2011

African art by Okpara Nosakhere

"In the Dagara tradition, Spirit brings the lessons of Life through falls from grace. Crisis comes as the instigator of change; it takes you to somewhere new, where you find a higher meaning and purpose. If you are going to learn and grow, you can't just be stuck in a particular place. Crisis breaks you out and creates the space for Creation to teach you." - Sofonfu E. Somé, healer 

Nigger Americans Wasicun Sapa

natural hair of Taraji P. Henson



portrait of a Black woman - Taraji P. Henson

Old African man in his village



Rasta, a true dread

"Well, I took a trip to Africa – which, by the way, is where I plan to live some day. I went to Kenya, and while I was there something inside of me said, “Look around you, Richard. What do you see?

 

I saw people. African people. I saw people from other countries, too, and they were all kinds of colors, but I didn’t see any “niggers.” I didn’t see any there because There are no “niggers” in Africa. ...Can you imagine going out into the bush and walking up to a Masai and saying, “Hey nigger. Come here!?”

 

You couldn’t do that because Masai are not “niggers.”

 

There are no “niggers” in Africa, and there are no “niggers” here in America either. We Black people are not "niggers,” and I will forever refuse to be one. I’m free of that, it’s out of my head. My mother is not a “nigger.” Is yours one? So if your mama ain’t no “nigger,” how could you be one? See, when I went to Africa, to my Motherland, I realized that terms like “nigger” and the word “bitch” that so many Black men call our women are tricks, like genocide on the brain."- Richard Pryor

Dark deep beautiful woman



Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian actress !!!!

"I remember when Richard Pryor said that. For a moment he held Blacks silent, but that moment needed to exhale as breath into our ancestors who saw themselves as niggers. That train of belief and thought has not been let go and killed. As willfully as the word nigger is defended being a nigger is equally protected as identity, as property. Black Americans through hip hop, for example, gave permission to the entire globe to call us niggers. Visit anywhere and listen." - Gregory E. Woods, 2.17.15

Jesus did not die for me. . .

 

fear of WATER WARS



starving mother in Africa

"We can talk all day with righteousness but the history of the thinking of white people playing with words has got us to the brink of water wars from an arena of purposeful selfishness. The belief that white people can and should own water is a fight against Life and integrity indigenous peoples have fought against for hundreds of years. What difference will the outrage of whites make today? The thinking around this is grounded in the culture. Is it too late because it sure feels like it"

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.22.15

 

The Beautiful Secrets

our dark story
Daughters of Ra.

The beautiful secrets of Africa can be read about, but the mind will only think it knows. Feet upon the land will tell the spirit more secrets, but African descendants in the United States are the Wasicun Sapa, the Black White People, and it takes so much to stretch beyond the confines of an identity structured around acceptance by white Americans. ~ Heart Song Stone Man 3.28.13

Embrace your sexuality Daughters of Ra., its part of your Queenness,
it's royalty that you possess in your sexuality ♥
Daughters of Ra.

A True Story

an Ideal

On many levels these words will remain an idea, or an ideal unattainable by believers, the mundane and those committed to their lot in life. The society we are living in has not, and is unable to embrace, or embody this. The Christian Bible in the last book of Proverbs speaks the same teachings, and is the identical sentiment of my Native culture, but it has always been lost upon the dominant culture. 

I know the Apostle Paul had two missions: to spread the Gospel of Christ, and the other more nefarious was to eradicate the Goddess from minds, hearts and traditional practice. The Founding Fathers of the United States examined and studied the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy, and gagged on the central element that balanced and made sense to the organizational genius of their laws. 

What was it? 

I'll tell you.

It was the power of the women to elect leaders, and decided if the nations went to war or not. We haven't ventured far from these notions. These fears dictate behavior, and inform custom and chastise people who look around and discover the Goddess.

- Gregory E. Woods, 

Keeper of the DRUM  

3.28.13

Circle of Union

The Idea of a Higher Ideal

 A collage of the mystical traditions of African women's spirituality, beauty & philosophies.

In the commencement of time
Our diversity was the survival
Mechanism that enabled our existence
To endure in all terrains across the globe.

To deny Africa is to forsake humanity.
To forsake Africa is to deny the humanity
Which exists in all of us.

Many people with different languages
And customs are all belong to one
Place. For, Nature doesn't discriminate against
any one person. It affords all of us
the privilege to exist in our actuality

From atoms emerging out of the early
Universe to Humans On earth
Try to decipher their purpose
And origin, we connect to have 
the ultimate human experience
In this universe.

Belmoun Ibo Lelé 

Halle Berry & Gabriel Aubry at the mall.?

My wife and I dancing at my son's wedding in 2010.

JESUS SAVES

Jesus Daily
This African man's crusty feet in makeshift sandals from two water bottles is ingenious and reflective of a keen mind.

This African man's crusty feet in makeshift sandals from two water bottles is ingenious and reflective of a keen mind. You need to look into the man's eyes to see the poverty, or see his life, how he lives his life. Is there light in his eyes? Does he know the stories we think he does not know about? 

Too often Americans are pricked in their core with images of severe poverty and the gross outcomes of terrible diseases not indigenous to African peoples. What we are looking at in graphic images of poverty, disease, and murder is the aftermath of European conquest, the subsequent demoralization of millions of Black Africans by colonialism, and the continual theft of the African continent to meet our wants, needs and desires here in the West, and the crushing effect of the machinery in place to become wealthier to the exclusion of consideration for quality of life in Africa. That is what these organizations that pop up on TV crying for financial help are not respecting, or acknowledging as the backdrop for the scenes of starving Africans. American white and black missionaries, and white TV evangelists do not address in any real, or effective sense from a commitment to social reform in Africa. In its place is the insufferable sense of rescuing lost souls in hopelessness as if there is no historically karma to pay, and no spiritual responsibility that does not make white Americans, in particular, feel good about themselves! 

This is insulting beyond words. That being said how does the American regain his lost soul. What is happening and not reported is that missionaries from Asia and Africa are coming here to our shores as missionaries. I asked of one such missionary a few years ago why he'd come from India as a missionary under the guise of a professional man. He said, the soul of Americans is sick, and they don't see it. So, we come in Jesus' name to help restore." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.22.13

ASSIMILATE, i see myself???

proud African womanTrue African Art.com

"... with all of the dreaming going on in African societies about whiteness, and the bleaching of skin is she from the past? It has been long years of turmoil wrestling one's soul, one's identity and sense of self from the embrace of colonial powers. How white have the Africans at home become is a fundamental question throughout the Diaspora. How does this question fare when raised anywhere on the continent of Africa today?" - Gregory E. Woods 2.24.13

African wrestlers

Concepts of Original Peoples

"Who is the artist? I don't know. That is the downside of cyberspace. So many creations can be taken from the artist, the writer, the speaker and rendered anonymous." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9.24.13

"Raising your vibration enables you to receive a more direct guidance and clearer guidance from your Higher self because it vibrates at a higher rate. Having this direct link allows for information to be more easily accepted by the conscious and actualized. Therefore a direct link is formed to interact with your Higher Self, Archangels, Ascended Masters and the gods." - Black Unity Oct. 12, 2010

Black Unity in Africa
July 18, 2012

Black Unity in Africa is a concept, and an idea. It was a unifying force within the great work General Qaddafi created in Africa that threaten the Western world. Anyone recognize this? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9.24.13

CARRY ON

Mukubal girl carrying her brother in a Dik Dik skin, Angola
Photo by Eric Lafforgue

Mother & child

Unmarried?

Africa's Children

Children of the CONGO

a child carried in a shuka/khanga wrap

a father

childhood has the same and similar feel to it around the world.

BAKAYAN FATHERS

"It is a baffling complex of social and economic invasions of people's soul our culture (Western) extends to others as a benefit. There are problems created by our approach to the life of many peoples around the world, and the only solutions to the problems our ideologies create seems to rest only in the raising of money. Money and the acquisition of things, land and resources of others are the drive behind the mission of Western expansion, and raising money to correct the damage done is the only solution? I am not convinced. What is wrong with this approach is obvious to anyone outside of the worldview that sustains these destructive practices." - Gregory E. Woods 7.25.13

7.25.13
from Lioness Daiba Sala

Forty meters up, and surrounded by angry bees pacified by the smoking wet leaves he carries, mongonjay, a member of the bayaka tribe of the jungles of the central african republic, hunts for honey suspended by fraying vine.

"when climbing big trees, you have to empty your heart of fear," he says. “if you have fear you will die. many of my friends have died doing this." 

bayakan fathers like mongonjay are considered “the greatest dads in the world," and not just because they risk life and limb to provide their families with honey. bayakan fathers cuddle and play with their kids five times as often as fathers from any other society, and spend almost half their time within arms reach of their kids.

when the mother is not present, bayaka fathers will soothe their hungry, crying babies by having them suckle on their nipples until she can return. most male mammals do not have nipples, and some evolutionary biologists believe that human males have retained theirs for this very reason. seriously. many anthropologists believe this nurturing fatherly behaviour was once the norm for humans.

the bayaka, however, now face extinction as forty years of excessive industrial logging has forced most to abandon the sustaining forest they’ve called home for thousands of years and replace it with a life of poverty and disease (particularity malaria and cholera) where they are viewed as “not truly human, a people without civilization" by most across equatorial africa.

they suffer “appalling socioeconomic conditions and a lack of civil and land rights," states a recent study conducted by the rainforest foundation. according to the WWF, it would only take $2 million to secure enough rainforest for future generations of bayaka to retain their traditional lifestyle. - Lioness Daiba Sala

Bayakan father climbing...