If you're in a few hours driving range of Chicago this coming Saturday, I would encourage you to come and meet Dr. Asare, Naturopath and Master Herbalist from Ghana-West Afrika.

In 1960, Kwame Nkrumah gave a speech where he stated, "Ghana's independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa and with the projection of the African personality in the international community." To understand this statement is to be able to visualize or imagine the path to where we want to be as Afrikan people.

There are several people whose life work contributes tremendously to this goal...I know I am only familiar with a few.

HaitiXchange - Possibilty of Earthquake in Port-au-Prince?

I found this notice from Bean Soup Times today particularly inspiring...So many doubters and haters and folks who want to see so many divisions amongst Afrikans....Here is a brother who works seamlessly with the African Union and with Afrikans here in Diaspora...Our vision has to extend beyond the rhetoric of who needs help the most and how we gotta focus only on our local communities --as if we can sustain any of our efforts without each other...anyway ck out Cedric Muhammad's travel video compilation too...

Cedric Muhammad, The Eclectic Economist

YouTube Video Collage On 'The United States of Africa'

Look. We are just keepin it real. The Wellness Revolution is in full affect. Many of us though have not been exposed to the Wholistic Perspective as envisioned by our ancestors. Real Traditional Afrikan Culture lies at the foundation of many of the "New Age" philosophies and metaphysical practices. We are clearing the dust off and putting the Traditional Culture in use for everyday living. We are grateful for the remnants of Afrikan Culture that have been kept alive thru so many other cultures. So, the Reclamation has begun! Wanna know what so-called Gen X'rs have been doing? Maybe we haven't publicly marched--but we have embraced the Spirit of Liberation and seek to live it-NOW!

Energy Science, Vibrational Science and Therapy as it applies
to Sound, Movement, and so much more will be available for your
experience at this particular event. This is only a small offering and
a beginning of a collaborative effort to expose the wider Afrikan
community to tools and techniques to increase daily life quality...Get me?
Stay tuned because the Frequency is increasing!

I gotta read this book...give me a minute to get back on it. This topic is hot on the boards--but based on the fact that many folks I know are having a problem with themselves to the point where they can't even have a decent one on one relationship! As the Buddhists have said, the sword in the hands of a coward is useless. I wonder do we really want what we say we want, do we really want to be able to control our destiny? Again, we can propagandize and develop all the media we want but if we don’t extend the battle to the food and water then our people will not be able to hear us…it’ll be more like trying to argue with a person who is inebriated…whose really behaving foolishly in that scenario? Our people cannot hear us! We have sounded the battle cry but their ears and eyes are blocked with thousands of media hits per day! Their thinking is distorted by 100 teaspoons of white sugar per day! They cannot hear us AND they cannot think for themselves!! In their right minds they wouldn’t need to hear anyone because they would be taking responsibility for themselves! Those of us who can hear beyond the hype need to put our heads and spirits to work and break the hold on ourselves and as many of our folks as possible. We need to be organizing ourselves and taking retreats to re-strengthen and keep ourselves built for this battle! We need to spend more time genuinely elevating ourselves and thereby increasing the frequency of all things around us! We can blame no one if we continue in the same vein! We know who is really doing it and really committed and really striving to elevate based on the FRUIT PRODUCED! We all have a lot more work to do! And those of us who think that we can skip to the so-called original family of polygamy, has got to be joking! First of all, most of the people doing the research and scholarship are males, coming to male conclusions! If I researched the history of family structures I guarantee you that I will find the original and best family structure was one where the woman’s vagina was not on lock with one man! But that she could share and give with the men that she needed to in order to reach enlightenment to benefit herself, family and the wider community! Men would be able to hold ejaculations and she would be able to build and generate sexual healing energy based on her spiritual, mental needs, characteristics etc. I guarantee you that I will find that there is no perfect manifestation of the perfect family structure! Family structures have always been a work in progress and based on the nature of man, they always will be. What we need to be more concerned with is healthy, and fruitful relationships that produce qualitatively better offspring and the use of sexual energy for what is was intended—regeneration, revitalization, and healing for ourselves, our community and the world! Make no mistake, there are women out here doing this vital work—I dare you to open yourselves up to more than just polygamy so you can see the woman for what she really is—the first and most profound teacher and leader of all of us—are you man enough to support her in this role? How you going to have more than one wife when you don’t even know how to control yourself—or your ejaculation? How are women going to function really in that scenario when most of us are not trained enough about the true nature of menstruation and don’t know how to control it? How can you even expect folks to be able to embrace the polyamorous lifestyle at this point when even one man and one woman generally cannot maintain fruitful and positive relations? Putting the cart before the horse makes me wonder if true intentions have been revealed and again, a sword in the hand of a coward is useless!