Africa on Celluloid: A Historical Perspective
From early experiments in making films which mimetically represented European and even American cinema, African directors evolved – as time wore on – into sensitive filmmakers telling local stories...
A Gold Watch of the Bishop, a Stick of the Gardener and the Train
A Bishop had blamed the son of the gardener for stealing his gold wristwatch. The gardener too had beaten his son blue-black. Was the boy a thief? A story...
Travelling the World in NYC: Conversations with Cab Drivers and Other Multi-Cultural Excursions
The interplay of different cultures – read multiculturalism – opens the horizons to a person, who is compassionate and deeply observant. As a Dance/Movement Therapist, nonverbal communication is the...
Black Women Celebrate Africanness: Identity, Rights, Culture and Gender Assertion
The cultural values of the ancient Africanness handed over to their children by Black mothers, even when values disappeared in history and ideas turned moribund through generations of slavery...
Sojourner Truth, First Feminist to Assert Black Identity: Intersectionality and Truth
What Sojourner Truth may have been most famous for, not unlike the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, was her public speaking. Illiterate throughout her life, she nevertheless had a remarkable...
tea, salt, and teranga
Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...
Grace of Black Panther: Spirit, Self and the Shaman in the Mother Continent
It is a source of boundless energy and power that an animal totem like the panther represents. Shamans of the world intuit that secret. Let us journey into the...
Togo: The Largest Voodoo Market in the World
Togo’s capital city of Lomé is the birthplace of the largest Voodoo market in the world – a kind of super supply store for fetishes, charms and anything else...