The Weeknd - The Knowing
A scene from Sun Ra’s 1974 film, Space is the Place.
“How do you know I’m real? I’m not real, I’m just like you. You don’t exist in this society. If you did, your people wouldn’t be seeking equal rights. You’re not real. If you were, you’d have some status among the nations of the world. So we’re both myths. I do not come to you as a reality, I come to you as the myth, because that’s what’s black people are: myths.”
you can see the full film here.
This is soo deep, they took Africans, forced the majority of them to forget their Language (Language is the DNA of a Culture, if you want to debate that just ask any trained anthropologist), forced them to disregard their culture, spirituality and even their Ethnicity (Which is very important in the motherland). Thusly they adopted the type cast of being ‘Black’ (which doesn’t actually mean much as it doesn’t connect them to a Culture a geographical land or history. As it is just social conditioning). Becoming myth.
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Shadow9drummer West London Performance, Shows his Amazing skills over U.K Dubstep/Grime Music. The Transformers Freestyle!
Much love to this brother right here I see big things in the future.
Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:09pm in drumming afrofuturism black culture African/African Renaissance african drums
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child part 1.
Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features footage of Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, talking about his art and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988.
Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.
This was a very deep, inspirational and sad Biopic of Jean-Michel life’s.
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mandombe script from the congo region
It is based on the sacred shapes 5 and ㄹ, and intended for writing African languages such as the four national languages of the Congo, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili, though it does not have enough vowels to write Lingala fully. It is believed that research into the script will result in scientific discoveries.[1] It is taught in Kimbanguist church schools in Angola, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also promoted by the Kimbanguist Centre de l’Ecriture Négro-Africaine (CENA). The Mandombe Academy at CENA is currently working on transcribing other African languages in the script.
This script is a new design of development of modern african civilization. Several titles, she recommends the multiform evolution of sciences, on the basis of mechanics, of art, architecture, the letters, the geometry, etc…
In fact, there are two principal stages of the Mandombe script, namely : to learn how to read and write then to pass to Kimbangula, i.e. the aptitude to make discoveries by using Mandombe as bases work.
Developing the intelligence and the judgement and stimulating the creative spirit of negro-african, it will help the Black Africa and its diaspora to be left the limbs of the lapse of memory, the secular marginalisation and very complex of inferiority.
In short, the Mandombe script in this 21st century is an obvious seal of a new era for Africa and its diaspora.
Consequently, Mandombe is, not only one tool of elimination of illiteracy, the revalorization of the cultural identity of the black man but also a revealing of another scientific comprehension of the african culture in order to bring the african knowledge to the large company of universal knowledge for the harmonious development of humanity.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvhdble7MV1qkzxdho1_400.jpg)
mandombe script from the congo region
It is based on the sacred shapes 5 and ㄹ, and intended for writing African languages such as the four national languages of the Congo, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili, though it does not have enough vowels to write Lingala fully. It is believed that research into the script will result in scientific discoveries.[1] It is taught in Kimbanguist church schools in Angola, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also promoted by the Kimbanguist Centre de l’Ecriture Négro-Africaine (CENA). The Mandombe Academy at CENA is currently working on transcribing other African languages in the script.
This script is a new design of development of modern african civilization.
Several titles, she recommends the multiform evolution of sciences, on the basis of mechanics, of art, architecture, the letters, the geometry, etc…
In fact, there are two principal stages of the Mandombe script, namely : to learn how to read and write then to pass to Kimbangula, i.e. the aptitude to make discoveries by using Mandombe as bases work.
Developing the intelligence and the judgement and stimulating the creative spirit of negro-african, it will help the Black Africa and its diaspora to be left the limbs of the lapse of memory, the secular marginalisation and very complex of inferiority.
In short, the Mandombe script in this 21st century is an obvious seal of a new era for Africa and its diaspora.
Consequently, Mandombe is, not only one tool of elimination of illiteracy, the revalorization of the cultural identity of the black man but also a revealing of another scientific comprehension of the african culture in order to bring the african knowledge to the large company of universal knowledge for the harmonious development of humanity.
Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge
A educational documentary, opening up a much-needed debate about traditional African spiritual systems; their cosmologies, ideologies and underlying ethical principles.
Modern science no longer refutes the origins of mankind being in Africa and similarities in the cosmological ideologies of African esoteric systems with those found many established world religions today, suggest that it was not only people that migrated, but also concepts and themes that then provided bedrock for the formation of other systems of belief.
The documentary aims to shed light on a topic shrouded in much mystique, negativity, superstition and ignorance, to allow for informed discourses on the subject without fear of persecution or oppression.
On a very personal note this is what I’m about learning & understanding.
