Reclaim Your Afrikan ☥ Gods

Reclaim Your Afrikan ☥ Gods
Sankofa <-- Go Back to Your Roots. Reclaim your Gods (click on image for resources on Afrikan spirituality). Disclaimer: These images are obviously too light. The complexions of our Gods should be much darker. GI

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Remembering Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai | Here & Now

I had the great honor of seeing this courageous woman, Wangari Maathia, in person about five years ago. I can't recall the details of what she said that day but I definitely remember being impressed by her gracefulness, her humbleness, and the sense that she somehow seemed bigger than the room that housed her. The official cause of her death was cancer but I have to wonder if the beatings and death threats somehow contributed to her illness. Dr. Wangari was a fierce envoy of Mother Earth, she defied the brutal fists of patriarchy, and she was a consistent critic of corruption (on this last point I think she was too dismissive of neo-colonialism and how the west undermines African self-reliance). We wish Wangari Maathai a peaceful Homegoing to the Ancestral Realm. Axé!

You can listen to her discussing her memoir Unbowed on the show Here & Now. 

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  1. I was somewhat surprised by her death. But this is a journey we all shall take. RIP

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