Kwanzaa and Pre-Kwanzaa Events

I have started listing Kwanzaa and pre-Kwanzaa events on my site. Click here for Kwanzaa events.

Some of these include:

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will hold Kujichagulia: A Kwanzaa Celebration for School Groups on Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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Some of these include:

The DuSable Museum in Chicago will hold the Harambee pre-Kwanzaa Celebration on the 8th of December.

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will hold a Kwanzaa event on the 30th of December.

I shall continue to add details of Kwanzaa events, so please come back.

Beautiful Beautiful Zion

I've been meaning to blog about this for awhile.

The V&A held a Rastafari event on 20th August, which tied in with the museum's exhibition of Sacred Art from Ethiopia.

Beautiful Beautiful Zion within the Heart of the Lion featured dub poetry from Levi Tafari, and a sound system from Mikey Dread and MC Ras Kayleb of Channel One Sound Systems.

The musical and verbal stylings of the Ras Messengers resounded through the building. A line of brothas beat 'pon dem drum like a heartbeat pulsing through all of us assembled there.

The community had truly turned out to bless and be blessed by them. All ages were represented, from the eldest to the youngest.

We often speak of peace, love and unity and that night, we truly expressed and experienced these qualities.

As was correctly stated, the sacred objects were stolen from Africa and need to be returned to their home.

Having said that, we, who were also stolen from Africa, were given the opportunity to draw on some of their energy, which had built up through sacred rituals over many years. So the museum has done us some service.

Waiting at the bus stop afterwards, I had a lively discussion with half a dozen people who had attended the event. Not my usual bus stop experience.

Make sure you are at the next one.

"Slave Museum" to Be Built in Ghana

Plans are underway to build a "slave museum" in Ghana, to serve as a monument to the Transnational Slave Trade. I don't think this is the first one, as has been reported, as there is a "slave museum" in Dakar, Senegal, and I believe there is oe in the Caribbean as well. Very possibly, there are others.

Still, this is a positive move.

The plan to build the museum is being discussed between city experts in Liverpool, England and some local Ghanaian chiefs. Click here to read more.

Click here for my list of Black museums. This is very much a work in progress.

Click here to read my interviews with artists about bicentenary of the end of the Transatlantic trade.

African Nations Have Not Used the World Cup to Brand Themselves

I saw this article today. Why are wooden figures being made in Indonesia for export to South Africa?

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Click here for my list of Black museums (a work in progress).

Click here for my article on how to build a strong black business community.