Abd Al Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori: From Guinea To The Mississippi Delta

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUnQ9Jj921oe_JL0LFrW14b3ro0TkzOEPpRI_aSjG_ENeDUA9qS6Q-Py-96JO4wHUX01sLQhnDoGiPJeVPFNT0wZPibafy2Q3xD3_W_YP5zFtDzzQf7huMmpm7KQHygCWRjX3pV8wD9k/s1600/Drawing+of+Abdul+rahman+Ibrahim+Ibn+Sori.+The+Arabic+inscription+reads+His+name+is+Abd+al-Rahman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUnQ9Jj921oe_JL0LFrW14b3ro0TkzOEPpRI_aSjG_ENeDUA9qS6Q-Py-96JO4wHUX01sLQhnDoGiPJeVPFNT0wZPibafy2Q3xD3_W_YP5zFtDzzQf7huMmpm7KQHygCWRjX3pV8wD9k/s1600/Drawing+of+Abdul+rahman+Ibrahim+Ibn+Sori.+The+Arabic+inscription+reads+His+name+is+Abd+al-Rahman.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Image: Abd al Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori (<i>aka</i> Abdul Rahman Ibrahim in addition to The Prince) </b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>(Born: 1762 - Died: 1829)</b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1762, Abd al Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori was born inside a majestic family, boy of King Sori, inwards the hamlet of Timbo inwards what is today known equally the Republic of Republic of Guinea inwards the share of Fouta Djallon (<i>aka</i> Futa Jalon, <i>lit.</i> "the state of the Fulbe in addition to Jalunke"). Ibrahima was born amidst the Fulbe (<i>aka</i> Fulani, Fula, Fullah, Foulah; <i>singular:</i> Poulas, Peul, Pullo) of the Timbo region. The Fulbe were primarily muslim cattle herders inwards this West African mountainous share where the Niger river rises in addition to runs eastward. In fact, Guinea's mountains are the beginning of the Niger, Republic of The Gambia in addition to Senegal rivers, amongst its highest betoken at Mount Nimba. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR6Ke7cdjfuZgAX11qSTaCXBP6a7CfQJ9sgo6hRSTxEhzY2kufQNTgvYtm-aIG1LQy2_WBTPaCZXJi6yzUo6Q3kDSc0J74TaumuarYms5oLWJgnyfj2i5v1S0YLtPRseLGEKtP2E3IdLU/s1600/Photo+of+Fouta+Djallon+Guinea+West+Africa.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR6Ke7cdjfuZgAX11qSTaCXBP6a7CfQJ9sgo6hRSTxEhzY2kufQNTgvYtm-aIG1LQy2_WBTPaCZXJi6yzUo6Q3kDSc0J74TaumuarYms5oLWJgnyfj2i5v1S0YLtPRseLGEKtP2E3IdLU/s320/Photo+of+Fouta+Djallon+Guinea+West+Africa.gif" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Today the cool, mountainous Futa Jallon share runs roughly </b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>north-south through the middle of the Republic of Guinea.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the mass <i>Prince Among Slaves</i>, written yesteryear Professor Terry Alford, the non-muslim Jalunke was the bulk tribal grouping inside the <a href="http://www.smi.uib.no/sa/15/15Salvaing.pdf" target="_blank">Futa Jallon share inwards Guinea</a> where Ibrahima was born. According to Prof. Alford, conflict inside the ethnically pluralistic Fulbe-Jalunke club occurred when the Jalunke leadership announced a annunciation forbidding populace prayer. Karamoko Alfa, the leading Fulbe cleric, declared jihad against the Jalunke for what was deemed a straight affront to Islam. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ceremonial slashing opened upwards of the Fulbe farmer's drums marked the outset of this cracking West African war. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>From Futa Djallon to the Mississippi Delta</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1788, at the historic menstruum of 26, Ibrahima was a military machine leader inside the Fulbe regular army when he was reportedly ambushed, captured in addition to sold to slave traders. Ibrahima was shipped to the USA where he was eventually sold to a Natchez, Mississippi slave trader yesteryear the refer of Thomas Foster. Ibrahima's noesis of agriculture operations in addition to his leadership skills made him a cardinal figure on Foster's cotton fiber plantation. By 1794, Ibrahima married Isabella, likewise enslaved on the Foster plantation in addition to would bring 5 sons in addition to 4 daughters.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As the storey goes, ane twenty-four lx minutes menstruum Ibrahima was recognized yesteryear an Irish Gaelic surgeon, doctor John Cox, who had traveled to Timbo during his transportation ventures amongst an English linguistic communication ship. Cox was aided yesteryear Ibrahima's identify unit of measurement for vi months when he was stranded in addition to barbarous sick inwards the Futa Jallon region. Cox asked Foster to sell Ibrahima to him hence that he could complimentary him for supply to his West African homeland. Mr. Foster refused. Cox petitioned vigorously on Ibrahima's behalf until his dead inwards 1816. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1826, a alphabetic quality Ibrahima wrote inwards Standard Arabic addressed to his identify unit of measurement inwards West Africa was picked upwards yesteryear Andrew Marschalk, a local newsman who sent a re-create to the federal uppercase inwards Washington D.C., to the attending of U.S. Senator Thomas Reed. Reed forwarded the correspondence to the U.S. Consulate inwards Morocco, assuming that Ibrahima was a Moor. Though Ibrahima was non a Moroccan citizen, Sultan of Kingdom of Morocco Abderrahmane was touched yesteryear his storey in addition to petitioned U.S. President John Quincy Adams to publish Ibrahima from the establishment of slavery. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The Prince Among Slaves Returns to West Africa</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1828, Henry Clay, hence U.S. Secretary of State, interceded on behalf of "The Prince", the refer given Ibrahima yesteryear Natchez, Mississippi residents. Foster stipulated that he would grant Ibrahima's legal publish from slavery entirely if he left without his identify unit of measurement in addition to returned to Africa. Despite the Ibrahimas' populace speaking efforts to enhance plenty coin to buy liberty for their nine children earlier leaving for Africa, they raised entirely one-half of the coin Foster required for the purchase. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At historic menstruum 66, afterward forty years inwards slavery, Ibrahima sailed to Monrovia, Republic of Liberia inwards 1828. By July 1, 1829, a caravan was reportedly en road to Liberia, carrying identify unit of measurement members from his Futa homeland. Ibrahima caught a fever in addition to died at the historic menstruum of 67, never making it to his native hamlet inwards the Futa Jallon. He died July 6, 1829. His married adult woman Isabella was reunited amongst 2 sons in addition to their families whose liberty in addition to carry was financed yesteryear the Ibrahima's funds. The remaining identify unit of measurement inwards Mississippi was inherited yesteryear Foster's heirs in addition to scattered across the South earlier farther efforts could hold upwards made on their behalf. To his legacy, Ibrahima left behind the narrative of his total story, a rare jewel inside the legacy of the early on colonial history of Africans inwards America.</div> <br /></div>

Abd Al Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori: From Guinea To The Mississippi Delta

Image: Abd al Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori (aka Abdul Rahman Ibrahim in addition to The Prince)  (Born: 1762 - Died: 1829) In 1762, Abd al Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori was born inside a majestic famil…

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African Nova Scotian: Dark Cultural Pump For Nova Scotia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2nckXBBkD_Z-KR40Hl4IhmXCM65m9LW_1CeDvHe1HSD_PFgC3QOZ-Lh_lLWd8wa481YaM0Q2SwEdWbG4QAOhjL-AbmBE3yIhdQznk86eQsXjW9CF5tGSWXfU8Va7hNzn1nSPl3y6kTa4/s1600/Black+Cultural+Centre+for+Nova+Scotia+African-Nova+Scotian+Heritage+Museum+Library+Complex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2nckXBBkD_Z-KR40Hl4IhmXCM65m9LW_1CeDvHe1HSD_PFgC3QOZ-Lh_lLWd8wa481YaM0Q2SwEdWbG4QAOhjL-AbmBE3yIhdQznk86eQsXjW9CF5tGSWXfU8Va7hNzn1nSPl3y6kTa4/s1600/Black+Cultural+Centre+for+Nova+Scotia+African-Nova+Scotian+Heritage+Museum+Library+Complex.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">BLACK CULTURAL CENTRE FOR NOVA SCOTIA -- </span>If y'all notice yourself inwards Nova Scotia, brand certain y'all catch the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. In December, the Black Cultural Centre hosts its Annual Christmas Concert.<br /> <br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><i>Location</i>: 10 Cherrybrook Road, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia</li> <li><i>Phone</i>: (902) 434-6223 or (800) 465-0767</li> <li><i>Fax</i>: (902) 465-0767</li> <li><i>Website</i>: <a href="http://bccns.com/">bccns.com</a></li> <li><i>Hours of Operation</i>: Open year-around: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - three p.m., June-September</li> <li><i>Admission</i>: Adults $6, seniors & students $4, household unit of measurement $20.</li> </ul> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5BIVIuyf1zOKTjMj7mqbUeoRoickGCEd0XqTqB1ZkDDipmEgpRcNFtduCcPGthLF06Nxt7B97TgXeY6sII0kVjuTqKHWCzsO63tZREUtheVxuwxAofMB2WIrCJkh_TneK1uEoJnZdJo/s1600/Photo+of+Archive+Drawing+of+African+Diaspora+in+Canada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5BIVIuyf1zOKTjMj7mqbUeoRoickGCEd0XqTqB1ZkDDipmEgpRcNFtduCcPGthLF06Nxt7B97TgXeY6sII0kVjuTqKHWCzsO63tZREUtheVxuwxAofMB2WIrCJkh_TneK1uEoJnZdJo/s320/Photo+of+Archive+Drawing+of+African+Diaspora+in+Canada.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo: Portrait of a Nova Scotian of African descent </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">attributed </span><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">to Lady Falkland, 1845. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: <a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=2884796&rec_nbr_list=2884796">Library as well as Archives Canada</a></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> The Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia late completed its 2011 Museum Renovation Initiative. Located inwards the oldest Black community inwards the Halifx underground area, the oculus includes demo rooms, auditorium, library, picnic surface area as well as a gift shop. The center's staff equally good offers motorbus tours of the local history of blacks inwards Nova Scotia, dating dorsum to the 1600s. Programs highlight themes related to community life, religious life, military machine service as well as migration.<br /> <br /> <b>From Nova Scotia, Canada to Sierra Leone, Africa</b><br /> <br /> In add-on to the Black Cultural Centre's resources, the local regime has equally good digitized direct records of African short town patterns inwards Nova Scotia as well as made them available through a searchable online archive.<br /> <br /> The digitized documents available from the Nova Scotia regime were originally assembled past times the belatedly Records Commission, T.B. Akins, to a greater extent than or less the subject "Refugee Negroes". Spanning from 1791-1839, the earliest documents relate to the emigration of 1200 gratis Africans inwards the eastern share of Canada to Sierra Leone. The grouping of Africans who left Nova Scotia originally immigrated afterwards the American Revolutionary War, inwards 1783, equally business office of the British Loyalist migration.<br /> <br /> The documents available from these regime archives are bully for African diaspora genealogist because they include the private names of African refugees from the rider lists of British ships landing at Beechville, Hammonds Plains, Preston as well as other locations. Documents equally good include correspondence as well as petitions to the regime past times white Nova Scotian citizens expressing draw organisation for the hard atmospheric condition faced past times the African refugees.<br /> <br /> <b>Black Nova Scotian Refugees from the War of 1812</b><br /> <br /> The Canadian digital archives equally good include data regarding the short town of 2000 African refugees inwards Nova Scotia from September 1813 to August 1815. This migration was a right away trial of the British military's War of 1812 announcement that offered Americans who deserted to the British side gratis short town inwards whatever of the British colonies if the efforts were unsuccessful.<br /> <br /> Unlike the early on emigrants to Sierra Leone, the African refugees of the War of 1812 remained, inwards bully part, inwards Nova Scotia. In 1820, the British colonial regime offered to emigrate them to Trinidad. Archive records betoken that 95 Africans chose to piece of job out for Trinidad. The tape equally good indicates that others feared migrating to Trinidad would atomic number 82 to a furnish to slavery.<br /> <br /> Searchable archive records of African short town inwards the Nova Scotia as well as emigration to West Africa as well as the Caribbean Area are at Nova Scotia Archives, available <a href="http://gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/diaspora/">HERE</a>.<br /> <br /> Here's a sample of the youth music out of Nova Scotia.<br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/PvUczv3Rt_M?version=3&hl=en_US"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/PvUczv3Rt_M?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div> <br /> <i>Until lions convey their historians, tales of the hunt shall e'er glorify </i><i>the hunter. </i>- African Proverb</div>

African Nova Scotian: Dark Cultural Pump For Nova Scotia

BLACK CULTURAL CENTRE FOR NOVA SCOTIA -- If y'all notice yourself inwards Nova Scotia, brand certain y'all catch the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. In December, the Black Cultural Ce…

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The African Renaissance Monument Inwards Dakar, Senegal

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9fv2CZtkMV8okWHmAUSH4lsfx4wgr7KBDNTIXIrwlEfhs5g5YdibF4W5MJcJs73hGTZO74r_XH4UV4aNnfNbCZIMNO5O229e52WtNb4KdbYbbqeSKtVvh9L-ohxRcN2ooYwt0LMgtHk/s1600/Black+Sculpture+Senegal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9fv2CZtkMV8okWHmAUSH4lsfx4wgr7KBDNTIXIrwlEfhs5g5YdibF4W5MJcJs73hGTZO74r_XH4UV4aNnfNbCZIMNO5O229e52WtNb4KdbYbbqeSKtVvh9L-ohxRcN2ooYwt0LMgtHk/s1600/Black+Sculpture+Senegal.jpg" width="287" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The African Renaissance Monument, Senegal, Africa. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-size: small;">The African Renaissance Monument, also referred equally Monument to the African Renaissance too </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><em>Monument De La Renaissance Africaine</em>, is a bronze statue perched on a loma inwards Dakar, Senegal. The representation of a man, adult woman too shaver emerging from a volcano was inaugurated at a ceremony on Apr 3, 2010, featuring hundreds of drummers too dancers. The African Renaissance Monument stands erect against the West African skyline inwards Senegal at 164 feet high, taller than the Statue of Liberty inwards the U.S.A.</span><br /> <b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b> </div> <div> <b><span style="font-size: small;">Marking l Years of an Independent Senegal</span></b></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />  </div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">The unveiling marked Senegal's l years of independence. Senegalese President Aboulaye Wade has said he hopes Blue Planet monument volition attract tourists to the West African country, too defended Blue Planet monument inwards writing, stating “[t]his African who emerges from the volcano, facing the West ... symbolizes that Africa which freed itself from several centuries of imprisonment inwards the abyssal depths of ignorance, intolerance too racism, to recollect its identify on this land, which belongs to all races, inwards light, air too freedom.”</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">“It's impossible to fille Senegal's novel 160-foot (49 meters) African renaissance monument,” wrote NPR reporter Ofeibea Quist-Arcton. “Perched high on a hill, the mighty Soviet-style bronze statue of a man, adult woman too shaver overlooks the Atlantic Ocean too dominates the horizon of the capital, Dakar.”</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <b><span style="font-size: small;">Public Monument Creates Controversy</span></b></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">President Wade authorized Blue Planet plant projection inwards the upper-case missive of the alphabet of Dakar, described yesteryear only about equally an African Eiffel Tower too others equally a operate that should never receive got been commissioned. Its $27 1 chiliad one thousand dollar (£17m) toll too agency stirred complaints from many inwards the predominantly Muslim country.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">Ndeye Fatou Toure, a fellow member of the Senegalese Parliament, said the statue was an “economic monster too a fiscal scandal inwards the context of the electrical flow crisis,” noting that one-half of Senegal's population lives below the poverty line. Additionally, the alternative of garb for the African identify unit of measurement was seen equally an affront to the Muslim sensibility of world discretion.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">Ebrima Sillah, a Senegalese journalist, stated that many Senegalese fine artists took criminal offense that Wade commissioned a crew of l North Koreans to arrive at Blue Planet sculpture. President Wade made a world tilt that he chose the North Korean crew because they were known equally experts inwards constructing large world monuments.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <b><span style="font-size: small;">African Statue Draws Pan-African Delegates</span></b><br />  </div> <div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8uISg3E4F4TX723vudiVy3dWwAXHIvdbcbYebGSE0qdZTNV1zmIvG7c4iOBY2vI0K514HtFSTZ9C5ofpzm7UKVF3DPQDs7WgZEXm9-A6OeXy5zXWmParM55bLGTZvREVyQ8Ni_5qF4zM/s1600/Monument+to+african+renaissance+senegal+africa+sculpture+statue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8uISg3E4F4TX723vudiVy3dWwAXHIvdbcbYebGSE0qdZTNV1zmIvG7c4iOBY2vI0K514HtFSTZ9C5ofpzm7UKVF3DPQDs7WgZEXm9-A6OeXy5zXWmParM55bLGTZvREVyQ8Ni_5qF4zM/s1600/Monument+to+african+renaissance+senegal+africa+sculpture+statue.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aerial Photo: Monument to the African Renaissance </td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Nineteen African heads of province attended the unveiling ceremony inwards Dakar. Notable world dignitaries included Bingu wa Mutharika, the Malawian too African Union president, equally good equally the African presidents of Benin, Cape Verde, Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Islamic Republic of Mauritania too Zimbabwe. Additionally, a delegation of 100 African-Americans attended the ceremony, including Reverend Jesse Jackson too Senegalese-American vocalist Akon.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">“It brings to life our mutual destiny,” said President Wade at the unveiling ceremony, according to a Reuters report. “Africa has arrived inwards the 21st century standing tall too to a greater extent than ready than e'er to receive got its destiny into its hands.”</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;">After xl years equally president of Senegal, the 83 twelvemonth old Wade announced that he volition seek re-election inwards 2012. With closed links to Washington D.C., the peanut too fish exporting quondam French colony has been cited for decades equally an illustration of African democracy. In September 2009, Senegal was awarded a $540 1 chiliad one thousand grant yesteryear the U.S.A. federal authorities to encourage its continued goodness governance.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <i>References:</i></div> <div> <ul> <li>"Senegal unveils 'African Renaissance' statue," yesteryear Mark John too Richard Valdmanis, Reuters (4/3/10)</li> <li>"For Many inwards Senegal, Statue Is a Monumental Failure," yesteryear Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR (1/5/2010)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div>

The African Renaissance Monument Inwards Dakar, Senegal

 The African Renaissance Monument, Senegal, Africa.   The African Renaissance Monument, also referred equally Monument to the African Renaissance too Monument De La Renaissance Africaine, …

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African Kingdoms: Medieval Warfare Betwixt Ghana Together With Mali Empires

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoIvOnn059eUZd2ng1HuhXuM0WOWo1kJuaX0mWb3ReJXAVVAHg3Ay20RfVu4aUQOTkeqV2iHfA210ncYMw2d6MuEszOZGI7UGRDtDhoemRyXvQ9X631QmCqT9SnAKoWWgmPbNG9pH6G8/s1600/Image+Mansa+Musa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoIvOnn059eUZd2ng1HuhXuM0WOWo1kJuaX0mWb3ReJXAVVAHg3Ay20RfVu4aUQOTkeqV2iHfA210ncYMw2d6MuEszOZGI7UGRDtDhoemRyXvQ9X631QmCqT9SnAKoWWgmPbNG9pH6G8/s400/Image+Mansa+Musa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 1230 C.E., the western Africa Republic of Ghana Empire roughshod nether the warfare leadership of Sundiata Keita, leading to the rising of the Republic of Mali Empire inwards West Africa.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> According to the Epic of Sundiata, the national epic poesy form of the Republic of Mali Empire (also referenced every bit Mandinka, Manding Empire, Manden Kurufa, Mandingo people, Mande language), the Republic of Mali federation of nation-states included nearly all of the reason betwixt the Sahara Desert to the coastal borders of the modern solar daytime nations of Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, in addition to Senegal. The <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=dogon-from-nile-valley-of-east-africa" target="_blank">Mali Empire</a> would command most of due west Africa for 2 centuries.<br /> <br /> <b>Sundiata Keita's Medieval Warfare inwards West Africa</b><br /> <br /> Sundiata Keita, too known every bit Sogolon Djata or Mansa Sundiata, was from the Keita clan in addition to born inwards the hamlet of Niani close the modern solar daytime borders of Republic of Mali in addition to north-east Guinea. The loosely federated Mandinka kingdoms were ruled past times the medieval Republic of Ghana Empire (cir. 790 C.E., too known every bit the Wagadou Empire) nether King Soumaoro Kanté during Sundiata’s youth. The modern province of Republic of Ghana shares no territory alongside the medieval Republic of Ghana Empire, though around of its inhabitants claim ancestral lineage alongside the inhabitants of the mediæval empire.<br /> <br /> <b>Mandika Kingdom-States Battle the Republic of Ghana Empire</b><br /> <br /> Sundiata devoted his life to the overthrow of the Republic of Ghana Empire in addition to was exiled later on waging state of war against the medieval Republic of Ghana Empire past times mobilizing the loosely federated Mandinka kingdom-states. In 1230 C.E., Sundiata led a rebellion against King Soumaba Cisse from the in addition to therefore Kangaba kingdom-state inwards the south-western part of the modern solar daytime Republic of Mali nation's Koulikoro Region. Kangaba was in addition to therefore an of import gilt mining part amid the Mandinka kingdom-states.<br /> <br /> <b>The Battle of Kirina close the Koulikoro Mountains of Bamako, Mali</b><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Tp3_9-CFV-SEOcCZeNZ0lykXOCioHZVhgYeRFWlMWaZnVlcgs-Ya7Og55OWNW-stOr8UY2HjFa8aOju3zy0Ct08mz4sf74eCBQDTUYUc61u7We8jvIxBYMz-iX2s8zJinTmjeZA7CBM/s1600/Three+Kingdom+Map+western+sudan+mali+songhai+ghana+timbuktu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Tp3_9-CFV-SEOcCZeNZ0lykXOCioHZVhgYeRFWlMWaZnVlcgs-Ya7Og55OWNW-stOr8UY2HjFa8aOju3zy0Ct08mz4sf74eCBQDTUYUc61u7We8jvIxBYMz-iX2s8zJinTmjeZA7CBM/s1600/Three+Kingdom+Map+western+sudan+mali+songhai+ghana+timbuktu.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Medieval West Africa was ruled past times 3 major empire nations, the Ghana, Republic of Mali in addition to Songhai. These kingdoms were purpose of a part historically referred to every bit the Western Sudan, which extended from the Atlantic Ocean to Central Africa. Trade routes were numerous across the Western Sudan region.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> In 1235 C.E., Republic of Ghana Empire forces were led past times the Sosso part manly mortal monarch Soumaoro Kanté, too known inwards historical accounts every bit Sumanguru Kanté. Soumaoro converged at the Koulikoro Region of modern solar daytime Bamako, Republic of Mali inwards an of import battle alongside the Mandinka forces. The historic African armed forces Battle of Kirina is cited past times historians every bit the lastly defeat of the mediæval Republic of Ghana Empire. Military legend provides that Soumaoro was non killed only disappeared into the Koulikoro mountains of Bamako.<br /> <br /> Sundiata was crowned Mansa or "King of Kings.” His 3 sons succeeded him to the throne of the Republic of Mali Empire: Mansa Khalifa Keita, Ouati Keita in addition to Wali Keita. The famous tales of Mansa Musa (b. 1307 C.E.), the boy of Sundiata's blood brother Abu-Bakr, chronicles his travels in addition to merchandise to distant lands inwards East Africa in addition to the Middle East. While purpose of the majestic kingdom household unit of measurement of the Republic of Mali Empire, Mansa Musa's granddad Abu-Bakr in addition to manly mortal nurture Faga Laya did non ascend the Republic of Mali Empire throne every bit Mansas.<br /> <br /> <b>Mansa Musa Rules Republic of Mali Empire in addition to Travels to Mecca</b><br /> <br /> According to Ibn-Khaldun's history of the Malian kings, Mansa Musa’s legendary caravan across Africa from Timbuktu to Mecca occurred inwards 1324 C.E. The historical accounts render that Mansa Musa traveled alongside a band of 60,000 people; 12,000 slaves; 500 workers; 300 pounds of gold; in addition to the nation’s firstly poets, artists, in addition to scholars.<br /> <br /> While the twelvemonth of Mansa Musa's expiry is debated amid modern historians, his reign is by in addition to large idea to convey lasted almost 25 years. The recorded dominion of Mansa Musa’s boy Mansa Maghan was from 1332 to 1336 C.E.. Mansa Suleyman, Mansa Musa’s older brother, ruled the Republic of Mali Empire from 1336 to 1360 C.E..<br /> <br /> <i>Further reading:</i><br /> <br /> “The Thirteenth in addition to Fourteenth Century Kings of Mali,” past times N. Levtzion, The Journal of African History, Vol. 4, No. 3. (1963).</div>

African Kingdoms: Medieval Warfare Betwixt Ghana Together With Mali Empires

In 1230 C.E., the western Africa Republic of Ghana Empire roughshod nether the warfare leadership of Sundiata Keita, leading to the rising of the Republic of Mali Empire inwards West Africa. Acco…

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Garifuna: Africans Inwards St. Vincent, Caribbean In Addition To Honduras, Due South America

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq84ljHWa1QAdKV97Fpdk1GDHti4Wn3VE4Qy3IrQarE9s9U_sTpDNfBu68F4iiLaiQmQcH7vQQhi3RNO-o6JMexK5V4o3EmOkB_FMVP_8EHYiFBodURAqQZECsGvHB41O6mCVDxyLEpaQ/s1600/Photo+of+Joseph+Satuye+Honduras.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq84ljHWa1QAdKV97Fpdk1GDHti4Wn3VE4Qy3IrQarE9s9U_sTpDNfBu68F4iiLaiQmQcH7vQQhi3RNO-o6JMexK5V4o3EmOkB_FMVP_8EHYiFBodURAqQZECsGvHB41O6mCVDxyLEpaQ/s1600/Photo+of+Joseph+Satuye+Honduras.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of Joseph Satuye (aka Joseph Chatoyer), Chief of the Black Caribs aka Garifuna. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> The millions of Africans living inwards Central America, South America as well as the Caribbean Area - inwards Castilian linguistic communication nations - are amid the most rich examples of African cultural survival inwards the so-called New World. The Garifuna represents a real unique instance of an early on African community to the Americas that held a job solid travelling pocket onto African kinship as well as cultural ties. <br /> <br /> No Garifuna state volition live found on a map today, but in that place are some quondam maps that stand upwards for a region in northern South America by the advert of "Garibana." Here is the icon of one such map found inwards a vintage store inwards Southern California.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA9zgZ9PaNvv5WT-6pNuouJ2p46tV6_o7Kf9kGfeKvNzlbYon0NsBVA1oTDyaLXTr4yCShOovXvtSjk1SJSAGAOPoa_O7A3p3-sqnHc-rK0FFDXhR208psYkxuH9bsamlnR5Y5hH3yIMI/s1600/Garifuna+Garibana+map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA9zgZ9PaNvv5WT-6pNuouJ2p46tV6_o7Kf9kGfeKvNzlbYon0NsBVA1oTDyaLXTr4yCShOovXvtSjk1SJSAGAOPoa_O7A3p3-sqnHc-rK0FFDXhR208psYkxuH9bsamlnR5Y5hH3yIMI/s1600/Garifuna+Garibana+map.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Partial icon of map dated 1586 representing America.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiey8Ba3OJ51wXpV8Ty9yyONfK1F33rwWmb-36RLNP-B6YhAwlIFqqh_mTE9LuJOTxykmp5YMhMhyzU__HIW_Onhe2iV28wwJd6L0FZxE1YmayP61j968hgTRHxVOWgPM7oE92-onOQtn4/s1600/Garifuna+Garibana+map+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiey8Ba3OJ51wXpV8Ty9yyONfK1F33rwWmb-36RLNP-B6YhAwlIFqqh_mTE9LuJOTxykmp5YMhMhyzU__HIW_Onhe2iV28wwJd6L0FZxE1YmayP61j968hgTRHxVOWgPM7oE92-onOQtn4/s1600/Garifuna+Garibana+map+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoom icon on 1586 map representing percentage described equally "Garibana."</td></tr> </tbody></table> Some commentators study that the Garifuna were inwards the Americas equally early on equally the 1300s, migrants from the West African Republic of Mali Empire. See <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=african-kingdoms-medieval-warfare" target="_blank">African Kingdoms: Medieval Warfare Between Republic of Ghana as well as Republic of Mali Empires</a> (Mansa Musa chronicles go tales from Republic of Mali Empire to East Africa as well as Middle East cir. 1300 C.E).<br /> <br /> Other commentators debate that the Garifuna arrived from ship-wrecked European slave ships that landed on the isle of St. Vincent (aka Saint Vincent, San Vicente) equally early on equally 1635. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 seat historian from Greater-Accra, Ghana, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=african-kingdoms-medieval-warfare" target="_blank">Kwekudee</a>, asserts they may live kin to the Akan Fante people of West Africa. Kwekudee considered factors such equally the Garifuna's matrilineal inheritance system, their dancing styles as well as their food, amongst the staple nutrient existence cassava. <br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnVfocRdpuaNvp64Lipw8Yvr9sIl6q03HnkX2qMoiscviVTeTiaUQ3OjFKQdAgRaEezGseREYTVZ_qjxFG3krWV6_vdV3TJy1AAfbXHjLOqbGGXE247eMj_0ROnnn5S2-2qAy_ptAStM/s1600/Garifuna+DAncers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnVfocRdpuaNvp64Lipw8Yvr9sIl6q03HnkX2qMoiscviVTeTiaUQ3OjFKQdAgRaEezGseREYTVZ_qjxFG3krWV6_vdV3TJy1AAfbXHjLOqbGGXE247eMj_0ROnnn5S2-2qAy_ptAStM/s1600/Garifuna+DAncers.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: The Chief Joseph Chatoyer Garifuna Folkloric Ballet of New York. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> Central to the Garifuna civilization is a rigid collective identity equally a people. The Garifuna receive got their ain unique Garifuna language, music as well as cuisine. The spiritual tradition of the Garifuna centers to a greater extent than or less an ancestral reverence, honoring the wisdom of the ancestors they receive got relied upon for survival for centuries. Like many African communities adjusting to slavery as well as the lost of household unit of measurement as well as tribal kinship ties, the rhythms of the drum as well as trip the low-cal fantastic would aid to create mutual songs to a greater extent than or less a mutual struggle. This reunified families as well as villages torn from their traditional homelands inwards Africa. <br /> <br /> <b>The Island of St. Vincent </b><br /> <br /> The Arawak as well as the Kalinago were the native inhabitants of St. Vincent at the fourth dimension Africans began to arrive. The Kalinago, known to a greater extent than oft than non equally the Caribs (hence Caribbeans) past times the Europeans, intermarried amongst the Africans, equally did the Arawak. The population of natives to the isle refused to homecoming Africans to European slavers, according to the<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lTgIOFMw5GsC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Jean-Baptiste+Labat+saint+vincent+black+carib&source=bl&ots=4brVsDpG8-&sig=HqdoVm_8OgxSxTEFShAKAtTztA4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=st73Uv-rC8O8oQSZx4HABQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Jean-Baptiste%20Labat%20saint%20vincent%20black%20carib&f=false" target="_blank"> accounts of Jean-Baptiste Labat</a>,<span class="st"> a Jesuit priest who lived inwards the Caribbean Area colonies at the plough of </span>the 1700s. Historical accounts study Africans escaping European slave plantations inwards the Caribbean Area for St. Vincent past times canoes as well as rafts. By the 1700s the mixed community of Africans as well as native peoples on the isle of St. Vincent had increased as well as the people became known equally the Garinagu (later Garifuna).<br /> <br /> By 1763, nether the Treaty of Paris, all European claims to the isle of St. Vincent was ceded to the British. The British would receive got to become in, however, to genuinely receive got possession over an isle populated past times complimentary people. The warrior-leader of the Garifuna was <b>Joseph Satuye</b>. For decades, Satuye organized the Garifuna equally <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=african-kingdoms-medieval-warfare" target="_blank">African Maroons</a> inwards state of war against the colonial British mission.<br /> <br /> The British forces, however, overwhelmed the Garifuna after many decades of battles. By 1797, in that place was a lastly give upwards past times the Garifuna. According to the GAHFU, to this 24-hour interval the Vincentians "make an annual pilgrimage to the isle of Beliceaux to pay homage to the Garifuna people who were imprisoned on that isle where one-half of the population died of Yellow Fever, other diseases as well as starvation."<br /> <br /> <b>The Island of Roatán, Honduras</b><br /> <br /> According to the <a href="http://bayislandsdiver.com/History.html" target="_blank">Bay Island Diver</a>, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 diver's guide to the Bay Island of Honduras, the origins of the Garifuna inwards Republic of Honduras was the trial of the following.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i>One grouping of slaves was "parked" hither during this fourth dimension during the oestrus of a battle (between the Castilian as well as British). When the winners came to collect them, the slaves refused to go. These are the Garifunas who populate much of the Bay Islands to this date, soundless maintaining their ain cultural identity as well as language. Punta Gorda on Roatán is ane of many villages where they soundless brand their homes.  </i></blockquote> While the British defeated the Garifuna inwards St. Vincent, they could non enslave them. An get at enslavement would sure receive got led to an unending as well as continuous get at revolt on the isle the Garifuna knew real well. Instead, the British imprisoned Garifunas on the isle of St. Vincent as well as literally exiled populations of the Garifuna from St. Vincent to the Republic of Honduras coastal isle Roatán (aka Ruatan, Rattan). The British may receive got sought to constitute a novel slave plantation from the Garifuna project inwards Honduras, but fortunately it was without success. <br /> <br /> The Garifuna people would non know slavery inwards Honduras, alone poverty. The Garifuna would grow their populations from Republic of Honduras as well as expand amid the coastal nations of the Americas -- amongst populations of Garifuna straightaway living inwards Belize, Nicaragua as well as Guatemala. Today, the Garifuna are introduce inwards Central as well as South America, too equally across the Caribbean Area as well as the United States.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><b> The Garifuna Heritage</b></span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"One of the unique things to me nearly the Garifuna spirituality is that the sacred as well as the profane seems to be simultaneously. In the western agreement of organized religious belief as well as spirituality, that could never happen." </span></i></span></blockquote> <span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/BM63f5SBlkw?hl=en_US&version=3"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/BM63f5SBlkw?hl=en_US&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /> Video: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 documentary celluloid produced past times the National Garifuna Council of Belize.<br />  The celluloid addresses Garifuna Culture including ritual, music, trip the low-cal fantastic as well as language.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Story About the Garifuna Documentary</b></span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"This is what our ancestors receive got left for us as well as this is what God has given to us, our ain culture."</i></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> "We receive got a huge battle to rescue what is ours again. And nosotros receive got to practice it. And nosotros tin practice it." </i></span></blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;"> - Jorge Castillo, Tornabe, Honduras</div> <br />  <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/hXb2p2WgHxI?version=3&hl=en_US"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/hXb2p2WgHxI?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /> Video: This celluloid chronicles the challenges as well as struggles of the Garifuna people to save their identity. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Ben Petersen Film Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Brigham Young University Communications Department Production. </div>

Garifuna: Africans Inwards St. Vincent, Caribbean In Addition To Honduras, Due South America

Image of Joseph Satuye (aka Joseph Chatoyer), Chief of the Black Caribs aka Garifuna. The millions of Africans living inwards Central America, South America as well as the Caribbean Area - inwar…

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The Linguistic Communication Of Symbols Inwards Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojMk6qhhmHYS2ddxRavIsqsE4ZmtOu5Y0c5V0q8wUO_t5HHXLuIws94WtQhSEFs_xMwwBnrN7IUEOoEPDs6rMi_aBzQGrkwBf4HD_lGIHWzw-8ke38ETebuo2UgBuZDma9KVgMz6K6Ds/s1600/ANANSE+NTONTAN+spider+web+symbol+of+wisdom,+creativity+and+the+complexities+of+life+Ananse.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojMk6qhhmHYS2ddxRavIsqsE4ZmtOu5Y0c5V0q8wUO_t5HHXLuIws94WtQhSEFs_xMwwBnrN7IUEOoEPDs6rMi_aBzQGrkwBf4HD_lGIHWzw-8ke38ETebuo2UgBuZDma9KVgMz6K6Ds/s1600/ANANSE+NTONTAN+spider+web+symbol+of+wisdom,+creativity+and+the+complexities+of+life+Ananse.gif" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spider spider web symbol for wisdom inwards West Africa, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com/p/african-folktales.html" target="_blank">Ananse</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> Symbols are visual keys that accept pregnant to people amongst a mutual heritage around a given symbol. The Gospel of Saint Philip states that "truth did non come upwards into the Earth naked, only it came inwards types too images. One volition non have the truth inwards whatever other way."<br /> <br /> Important iconic symbols arose inwards many human groups across the globe. The symbol was designed to communicate too exactly remind its viewer of concepts inwards the world. They may serve equally roadsigns, maps or instructionals for the viewer. Not surprisingly, symbols accept had a deep behavior upon on human psychology too spiritual life, relaying the intuitive wisdom of the ancients.<br /> <br /> In Africa, where tape of the oldest human communities lie, in that location are many tribal families that locomote symbols to tell stories too supply information, reminders too lessons. These symbols are considered sacred, too were primarily used inwards ceremonial too religious contexts. <br /> <br /> <b>EAST AFRICAN SYMBOLS </b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JXeQfAXA4COgABGMnA2sZS4eJH5_GdXfUb6q2xrzBG9nZk9oDM5LYyzOeAKYvVtp0kfxadMNCggvGRGxmsq97OSBhogkRykWrrXQzMM0r8NwxZdj7LzPD7tMhTgRjJV6xh4oPwdEzes/s1600/Isis+featured+on+ankh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JXeQfAXA4COgABGMnA2sZS4eJH5_GdXfUb6q2xrzBG9nZk9oDM5LYyzOeAKYvVtp0kfxadMNCggvGRGxmsq97OSBhogkRykWrrXQzMM0r8NwxZdj7LzPD7tMhTgRjJV6xh4oPwdEzes/s1600/Isis+featured+on+ankh.jpg" width="113" /></a></div> Among the oldest cast of surviving written script is a symbolic ane -- hieroglyphics, a mixture of symbols too signs. Some pictures inside a hieroglyphic may easily live recognizable to a viewer equally acts of humans or human-made objects. Some symbols select really specific pregnant that volition live unknown to an outsider who has non studied the pregnant of the epitome inside the context it was initially relayed. Other symbols inside hieroglyphic writing accept phonetic value. <br /> <br /> An of import symbol inwards ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics is the ankh, represented here. The ankh combines the symbols of Osiris (the T cross) too Isis (the oval) to symbolize immortality. Osiris too Isis -- blood brother too sister-- were the 2 earliest God too Goddess inwards <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=queen-tiye" target="_blank">ancient Egyptian</a> tradition. Isis is the start ancient Egyptian goddess to look inwards surviving East African cultural history. Isis represents the divine woman nurture too protector. She is equally good depicted inwards ancient Egyptian symbols equally a kite, a cast assumed to search for the dismembered trunk of her blood brother Osiris.  <br /> <br /> The patriarchal Christian cross borrowed it's iconography from the older ankh symbol, removing the woman individual Isis representation. The ancient Egyptian ceremonies often line gods ceremonially carrying the ankh, much similar the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians locomote the cross symbol inwards its processionals.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuiwN2sIyclrkV_e_Zktk105UDqDOIV2SIOS1X19-_aYDhDY1B9vETJjJdX6YVoXSbxw__VLdvyXWXBLzhnY6_YDKi-WRhGaCOuGe2uH6cERwC9BQzxkO-B1oMqCA7rxg1uYr5yRY51E/s1600/The+goddess+Isis+gives+pharaoh+Seti+I+breath+of+life,+in+the+form+of+an+ankh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuiwN2sIyclrkV_e_Zktk105UDqDOIV2SIOS1X19-_aYDhDY1B9vETJjJdX6YVoXSbxw__VLdvyXWXBLzhnY6_YDKi-WRhGaCOuGe2uH6cERwC9BQzxkO-B1oMqCA7rxg1uYr5yRY51E/s1600/The+goddess+Isis+gives+pharaoh+Seti+I+breath+of+life,+in+the+form+of+an+ankh.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The goddess Isis gives pharaoh Seti I breath of life, inwards the cast of an ankh </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Other Nile Valley symbols were the Sun disk too the pyramid. The winged-sun disk symbol represents the Sun god Ra. Ra rules the Sun too the skies, equally the creator of the world. The pharaohs (kings) honored Ra equally sons (suns) inwards their iconography. Ra is said to accept resided inwards Heliopolis, an ancient Egyptian city. The symbol for Ra too his attributes is the obelisk too the Sun rays. The pyramid represents some other of import East African symbol. The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids for initiations into the mystery schools, equally good equally homes for those who transcended through <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=queen-tiye" target="_blank">the duat</a>. It symbolizes the highest score of spiritual attainment, an ascent of the hierarchy of enlightenment. <br /> <br /> <b>WEST AFRICAN SYMBOLS</b><br /> <br /> There were equally good many symbols used inwards West Africa to select messages too values inside community. The Akan too the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=queen-tiye" target="_blank">Asante</a> tribes of West Africa both locomote Adinkra symbols. The symbols are constitute ofttimes inwards the West African Earth of Ghana. The symbols are incorporated into fabrics too on interior wall designs, or on pottery. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiK0YWuo0Td7cD5ptGSWFBpR39Vd5ypoWjWpMFid7_6j-kSPjBdOTfcRc8tr5Ah8TIUiEAUE9_TzzmKdSBQLFdxGuJdxpo1HfugRxScDVNeD1RLfRNwlySdibXvShIsVkMV9n4xhGgLo/s1600/Adinkra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiK0YWuo0Td7cD5ptGSWFBpR39Vd5ypoWjWpMFid7_6j-kSPjBdOTfcRc8tr5Ah8TIUiEAUE9_TzzmKdSBQLFdxGuJdxpo1HfugRxScDVNeD1RLfRNwlySdibXvShIsVkMV9n4xhGgLo/s1600/Adinkra.jpg" width="492" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvY-j4635HUUPgbjKa1l_ehzTbZLnseokS3pZ98_Nur3O7sXM0Q9bKRn-ilXAVrO2PZSEti5mi5W3bJTiOm9HGGgC9hyphenhyphen3MK1bOHPDy7xwybDRDofPdS6_at67NovfyB9ZmvrianYI0i8/s1600/fern+adinkra+symbol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvY-j4635HUUPgbjKa1l_ehzTbZLnseokS3pZ98_Nur3O7sXM0Q9bKRn-ilXAVrO2PZSEti5mi5W3bJTiOm9HGGgC9hyphenhyphen3MK1bOHPDy7xwybDRDofPdS6_at67NovfyB9ZmvrianYI0i8/s1600/fern+adinkra+symbol.jpg" width="118" /></a></div> Used ofttimes past times pre-colonial Ghanaian people, the Adinkra stamps were made from gourds too used to select of import concepts. These symbols may exhibit upwards inwards jewelry designs to select pregnant to those inside the civilization equally clearly equally phonetic text represents meaningful words to those who are native to European languages, such equally English. <br /> <br /> For example, inwards Republic of Ghana the aya or "fern" adinkra symbol represents endurance too resourcefulness. "An private who wears this symbol suggests that he has endured many adversities too outlasted much difficulty," states W. Bruce Willis inwards his mass <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966153219/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0966153219&linkCode=as2&tag=crosswriting-20&linkId=PXONJAD6SMPEL3VZ" target="_blank">The Adinkra Dictionary</a>. The aya represents a known West African works life that tin grow inwards hard places. It tin withstand dry out reason too various weather condition conditions too shortly came to correspond human perseverance inwards life. Among the Ghanaians, this is a symbol of hardiness, endurance too defiance.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJmZ5O7UJhr-oDbe_V5BwOAUkDokJMxMeshrBsZcAeI3CHFSXj7imErdQVQ4K8GcKUQS_8Rrz_NWUWE7rb3qNr9aMV3G2o8O0eg_MEEBM1KNiriRfuvtgT3_RY-NUJvJQa5ts6T6hghY/s1600/Adinkira+stamps+made+from+gourds+West+African+symbols+were+a+form+of+thought+or+conveyance+used+by+pre-colonial+Ghanaian+people+symbol+has+a+discrete+but+abstractive+meaning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJmZ5O7UJhr-oDbe_V5BwOAUkDokJMxMeshrBsZcAeI3CHFSXj7imErdQVQ4K8GcKUQS_8Rrz_NWUWE7rb3qNr9aMV3G2o8O0eg_MEEBM1KNiriRfuvtgT3_RY-NUJvJQa5ts6T6hghY/s1600/Adinkira+stamps+made+from+gourds+West+African+symbols+were+a+form+of+thought+or+conveyance+used+by+pre-colonial+Ghanaian+people+symbol+has+a+discrete+but+abstractive+meaning.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Africa’s rich too various artistic traditions vividly limited a spiritual sentiment of the world. The position out of symbolic systems inwards Africa is beyond this writer's capacity to fathom, based on the important cultural variety inside the African continent. Symbols may arise on masks too ornaments, inside architectural designs or inwards hairpieces too clothing. From East Africa to West Africa -- Southern Africa to Northern Africa -- the people of Africa accept a broad array of symbols waiting to live examined past times those interested inwards learning to a greater extent than well-nigh African history too its ancient, various cultural heritage.  </div>

The Linguistic Communication Of Symbols Inwards Africa

Spider spider web symbol for wisdom inwards West Africa, Ananse Symbols are visual keys that accept pregnant to people amongst a mutual heritage around a given symbol. The Gospel of Saint Philip s…

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A Due West African Folktale Of The Even Out Of Oshún's Flying To Olodumare

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJA9_qNgWo5FvOmL01p2_Ix90VbastpwVIr7liTZ1N1QnvlvV4Vb20lsNuvQ4WOl1icJaG2vT9zBqRwO1RZy-koCa6Owyx0iv0Us49tBb1-niJvoouhX1wq7hclPpvWO5bc67mAgFRi-g/s1600/oludumare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJA9_qNgWo5FvOmL01p2_Ix90VbastpwVIr7liTZ1N1QnvlvV4Vb20lsNuvQ4WOl1icJaG2vT9zBqRwO1RZy-koCa6Owyx0iv0Us49tBb1-niJvoouhX1wq7hclPpvWO5bc67mAgFRi-g/s320/oludumare.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oludumare is ane of iii manifestations of the Supreme God inwards the Yoruban pantheon</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">It has been said inwards the sacred stories of our West African Yoruba tradition that Oshún (sometimes written Oshun or Osun) is the solely Orisa able to approach Olodumare (aka Olorun) directly, carrying prayers from the oral fissure of humanity to Olodumare's ears. This is the flush of Oshún's flying as well as how she became the messenger of Olodumare. </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">In the early on days of the world, as well as of Ilé Ifé, the orishas became tired of serving Olodumare. They began to resist the Lord of Heaven's edicts as well as to fifty-fifty plot the overthrow of Olodumare's kingdom inwards sky as well as earth. They felt they didn't demand Olodumare as well as that every bit the Lord of Heaven was thence distant anyway, they could but dissever the aché or powers alongside themselves as well as that things would operate much ameliorate that way.<br /><br />When Olodumare caught air current of this mental attitude as well as their plots, the Lord of Heaven acted simply as well as decisively. Olodumare simply withheld the pelting from the earth. Soon the public was encompassed yesteryear a staggering drought, the basis became parched as well as cracked, the plants withered as well as died without water. And it wasn't long earlier all on earth, orishas as well as their children alike began to starve.<br /><br />After a brusque time, growling bellies as well as sallow faces began to verbalise louder than pride as well as rebelliousness. They unanimously decided to operate to Olodumare as well as beg for forgiveness inwards hopes that this would convey pelting dorsum to the world. But they had a problem: none of them could accomplish the distant habitation of Olodumare. They sent all the birds ane yesteryear ane to endeavor the journeying but each as well as every ane of them failed, tiring long earlier reaching the palace of the Lord of Heaven. It began to appear that all promise was lost.<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHWnVHQlqJotir4Kv-J0RyTxC2KfZMAT7_CtQMWtIp6RZOXKIYvPk2PT32Uc96d48WX8N6rWJ3lWgkLXfhw8IR5DOqdxfLiIg0iSghtmqxZxgPJbK06simh6KiyhgtBMPJfU1d6C7tqE/s1600/west+african+folk+tale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHWnVHQlqJotir4Kv-J0RyTxC2KfZMAT7_CtQMWtIp6RZOXKIYvPk2PT32Uc96d48WX8N6rWJ3lWgkLXfhw8IR5DOqdxfLiIg0iSghtmqxZxgPJbK06simh6KiyhgtBMPJfU1d6C7tqE/s320/west+african+folk+tale.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">Then ane day, the peacock, who was inwards reality Oshún herself, came to offering her services to salve the public from this drought. Once again, at that topographic point was full general upheaval as well as fifty-fifty to a greater extent than laughter every bit the orishas considered the sentiment of this vain as well as pampered aeroplane task such a courageous as well as unsafe journey. "You mightiness intermission a nail," said one.<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">But the footling peacock persisted. As they had naught to lose, they agreed to allow Oshún continue the world's behalf. So the footling peacock flew off towards the Sun as well as the palace of Olodumare. Oshún presently tired of the journey, but she kept flying always higher, determined to accomplish the Lord of Heaven as well as to straight plea for the world.<br /><br />Going withal higher, Oshún's feathers began to operate scraggly as well as dark from the withering oestrus of the sun, as well as all the feathers were burned from her head.<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But she kept flying.</i><br /> </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, through sheer volition as well as decision she arrived at the gates of Olodumare's palace. When Olodumare came upon her she was a miserable sight. Oshún had lost much of her feathers as well as the ones that remained were black. In all truth, Oshún was looking quite scraggly. To larn to sky she had to wing thence around the Sun as well as sacrifice her beautiful feathers. The Lord of Heaven took compassion on Oshún as well as brought her to the Palace where she was fed as well as given water, as well as her wounds were treated.<br /><br />He asked Oshún why she had made such a perilous journey. She explained the Earth of public as well as went on to say Olodumare that she had come upwards at adventure of her ain life thence that humanity mightiness live.<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5P_0Rf0OdhDiHs3VOs3a2zqiRNkmEHv4J4T4-TJcmYzbrm1j-Zr6RZS9QOpQjGDXGdZ9dMZhd_e_7lx537T0JuvfB9BuBQsh6YQ88NWQI1SWMsefXxNHKkvPeko-iFjHk6NLcRQd98o/s1600/olodumare+God+in+Yoruba.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5P_0Rf0OdhDiHs3VOs3a2zqiRNkmEHv4J4T4-TJcmYzbrm1j-Zr6RZS9QOpQjGDXGdZ9dMZhd_e_7lx537T0JuvfB9BuBQsh6YQ88NWQI1SWMsefXxNHKkvPeko-iFjHk6NLcRQd98o/s400/olodumare+God+in+Yoruba.jpg" width="400" /></a> </span></span></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">Olodumare looked to the world. He as well as thence looked to Oshún's plaintive face. It was obvious that everything she had said was truthful as well as he was moved yesteryear </span></span></span></span></span><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">Oshún</span></span></span></span></span>'s capacity to love. The Lord of Heaven turned to the peacock, who wasn't a peacock anymore. The flying for humanity turned Oshún's outer cast into that of a vulture. </span></span></span></span></span><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">He ordered the rains to autumn from heaven.<br /><br />Then Olodumare looked deeply into Oshún's eyes as well as into her heart, as well as thence announced that for all eternity she would live on the Messenger of the House of Olodumare as well as that all would select to observe her every bit such. From that twenty-four hours forward, inwards this path, Oshún became known every bit Ikolé, the messenger of the House of Olodumare. Ikolé also is the lift for the vulture inwards Lacumí. And from that twenty-four hours the path of Oshún known every bit Ibú Ikolé was revered as well as became associated with her bird, the vulture. The vulture as well as thence returned to earth, bringing with her the rain, where she met with slap-up rejoicing.<br /><br />As benefits a Queen or Iyalodde, </span></span></span></span></span><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;">Oshún</span></span></span></span></span> graciously refrained from reminding them of their jibes as well as abuses every bit she could encounter the shame on their faces. This is why, whenever a someone is to operate initiated every bit a priest inwards the Yoruban religion, no affair which orisha they are having seated inwards their heads, they must starting fourth dimension operate to the river as well as give an employment organization human relationship of what they are to create -- every bit Oshún is the Messenger of Olodumare.</span></span></span></span></span></div> </div>

A Due West African Folktale Of The Even Out Of Oshún's Flying To Olodumare

Oludumare is ane of iii manifestations of the Supreme God inwards the Yoruban pantheon  It has been said inwards the sacred stories of our West African Yoruba tradition that Oshún (sometimes writ…

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Edward Wilmot Blyden On Liberia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjeaToUaOm4ZQvKwwqNBhzWA28wsyldQKoJ-uungVyQ2D_76BMpqZPIZn2bvhVsZAt63MiEAHB7uK9YNO78R9afWDNsmvVc8BrFBAAOWacdxSbBtyoxgGHx0CbgYwy0W0JYC0bfb0Hgs/s1600/Edward+Wilmot+Blyden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjeaToUaOm4ZQvKwwqNBhzWA28wsyldQKoJ-uungVyQ2D_76BMpqZPIZn2bvhVsZAt63MiEAHB7uK9YNO78R9afWDNsmvVc8BrFBAAOWacdxSbBtyoxgGHx0CbgYwy0W0JYC0bfb0Hgs/s320/Edward+Wilmot+Blyden.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Wilmot Blyden (b. 8/3/1832 - d. 2/7/1912)</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> On August 3,1832, Edward Wilmot Blyden was born inwards Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island, West Indies. He is considered by many historians as the manly individual parent of <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/ hcb8/EWB_Museum/Legacy.html" target="_blank">Pan-Africanism</a>. His writings together with speeches are with the earliest plant on the dependent area of Africans returning to the continent after the deport upon of the European Trans-Atlantic slave trade, fifty-fifty predating the influence of the belatedly Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr..</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> Blyden was an educator, author together with diplomat who became real active inwards the the States together with inwards West Africa. He is noted to last with the outset iii Africans admitted to Harvard Medical School. He would afterward move an active political figure in Liberia, the West African nation settled yesteryear costless together with freed Africans primarily from the Americas together with West Indies. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <span id="dscexpitem_2113845634_3">When he married Sarah Yates, of the prominent Yates family of Liberia, he would last joining the prominent solid unit of measurement of Beverly Page Yates, the Liberian vice-president from 1856-1860. The Blydens had iii children. </span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <span id="dscexpitem_2113845634_3">While inwards West Africa, Blyden also taught inwards Sierra Leone where he became an influential intellectual force. </span>A frequent commentator on the political together with historical actions of African nations to their global diaspora, Blyden spoke publicly on Ethiopia's win on Nov 16, 1875 at the Battle of Gundet against an Arab Republic of Egypt led yesteryear colonial Arabs. Both Blyden together with his contemporary, Martin Robinson Delany, praised the Gundet win as an African victory. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpfn_58h2ru1wgj09arXVn0UCTuymjAxULWenA5FQmrIzrBvL-RJ0ruVcaRHoi71BRYlZJfSVITsmbmmbAFPhZQyzoCNCF_KwiqTyPyDGQUtYjUlV20Pepd26M1-9r0X0LuZkai2PbPw/s1600/Ethiopia%2527s+win+at+the+Battle+of+Gundet+over+colonized+Egypt+on+1875+observed+by+Martin+Delany+Edward+Blyden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpfn_58h2ru1wgj09arXVn0UCTuymjAxULWenA5FQmrIzrBvL-RJ0ruVcaRHoi71BRYlZJfSVITsmbmmbAFPhZQyzoCNCF_KwiqTyPyDGQUtYjUlV20Pepd26M1-9r0X0LuZkai2PbPw/s1600/Ethiopia%2527s+win+at+the+Battle+of+Gundet+over+colonized+Egypt+on+1875+observed+by+Martin+Delany+Edward+Blyden.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Pan-African Perspective of the Battle of Gundet, Ethiopia</td></tr> </tbody></table> </a>Below is 1 of the many public speeches yesteryear Edward Wilmot Blyden. Published July 27, 1857, this spoken language addresses some of the pressing issues facing the new settlers at Republic of Liberia -- many of whom were newly freed from the Americas. Blyden addressed the occupation that arises when a public is driven yesteryear a want to last "rich", equally seen yesteryear the conspicuous consumption patterns Blyden notes in the novel inhabitants to Liberia. In this speech, Blyden also brings to the forefront of his listeners the economic perils ofdependence on the unusual assistance of the United States. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> * * * * </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b> Liberia equally She is; together with the Present Duty of her Citizens  </b></div> <br /> [An Independence Day address given at Monrovia, July 27, 1857      <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> African Repository, Nov 1857, pp. 328-32.]  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>  What then…are the moral causes of the acquaint evils inwards Liberia? …    … equally a people nosotros accept been inwards likewise much haste to last rich. Relinquishing the pursuit of those attributes that would tally us for the faithful discharge of our peculiar duties equally men, equally Liberians, equally an baby nation, nosotros accept used every possible stair out to lift our pecuniary importance; together with inwards the precipitate efforts at wealth, nosotros accept non been careful equally to what agency nosotros accept employed. The want to last rich, or to appear to last rich, pervades all classes. The honey of money…has grown upon us to such a flat that all other avenues of distinction seem but trifling inwards comparing of those which atomic number 82 to the acquisition of money.    To last rich seems with many “the principal destination of man”.  Hence, no talents, no endowment of the mind, no science or knowledge, no amount of education, is appreciated only so far equally it volition pay…. This fact has operated greatly inwards retarding the literary progress of our youth….   <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION    </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Another displace of our adversity may last seen inwards the unjustifiable extravagance inwards which nosotros indulge; inwards that luxury of expenditure for houses, for dress, for furniture, for food, constantly made the reprehensible remark yesteryear thinking foreigners.  We are inwards dreadful mistake inwards regard to our country, if nosotros suppose nosotros are really prosperous. Our prosperity is non real; it is false; it is fictitious.  The prosperity of a nation is existent when the springs of the prosperity are contained inside itself, inwards the hands of its citizens; when it depends for its beingness upon its ain resources; when it is independent.  But this is non the illustration inwards Liberia.  We are, equally a nation, upheld yesteryear foreigners. We are solely dependent upon foreigners for our schools, for churches, for preachers, for teachers.  Most of the talent of the solid reason is inwards the employ together with at the command of foreigners.  Those thus employed must ever concur their talents together with their efforts subservient, non to what they conceive to last the interests of their country, but to the desires together with direction of unusual employers…. What nosotros want to convey earlier our minds today is the humiliating fact, that nearly all the talent of Liberia—talent non inwards ordinary men, but inwards our principal men—is supported yesteryear unusual agency together with controlled yesteryear unusual influence.  And yet, inwards the seem upwards of these humbling realities, nosotros boast of our civilization, of our prosperity, of our independence, together with indulge inwards unjustifiable extravagance…    *     *     *    … the coin lavished upon houses, which add together zero to  wellness together with comfort; upon dress, which does non growth the dignity together with beauty of personal appearance; the large sums seat out inwards expensive furniture, … the neat amount consumed inwards the luxuries of the tabular array would move a neat way inwards keeping our streets clear of weeds, inwards felling the dense forests around us, inwards reclaiming the wilderness, inwards cultivating the soil, inwards civilizing our … brethren.    … Look at the numbers who … inwards lodge to advance to, or maintain this [extravagant] trend of living, flock to the fostering arms together with sheltering wings of these [foreign] societies.  Thus dis- honesty stalks abroad nether the semblance of piety; together with impiety assumes the appearance of religious belief for the sake of gain.  And … this extravagant mode of living…are made inwards the minds of many the criterion of respectability…we attach to a greater extent than importance to display than to reality.  There is real petty that is substantial nearly us…    *     *     *    …It is our duty to acquire that at that spot are other objects of infinitely greater importance than wealth inwards our rising country…A higher destiny is ours: our duty together with privilege is the laying of the foundation of hereafter empires inwards Africa…    … It is our duty to curtail our superfluous expenditures.  There should last retrenchment of our expenditures for fantabulous edifices….Let our surplus agency last beneficially expended; permit it last vested inwards the improvement of our country, inwards placing our prosperity upon a safer together with to a greater extent than permanent foundation—in rendering ourselves independent…    … It is our duty to labor.  We dwell inwards a solid reason rich inwards resources, which with petty exertion tin give the axe last called forth inwards sufficient diverseness together with abundance to homecoming us comfortable together with independent. But at that spot is a fatal lack of productive manufacture with us…. The commerce of the solid reason has e'er been inwards such articles equally our citizens accept had no business office inwards producing; thence nosotros acquire wealth from this origin without helping to exercise it.  We buy the palm crude oil together with camwood together with ivory from the natives giving them inwards central articles of unusual production …. The prosperity arising from our commerce is almost equally evanescent equally that based on missionary appropriations.  Foreigners on the 1 hand, together with the natives on the other, are our supporters.    *     *     *    … nosotros must either abandon our province of utter dependency upon foreigners, yesteryear creating the agency of supplying our ain wants, or relinquish our profession of freedom equally a nation.  H5N1 province of dependency is solely incongruous with a province of liberty….    …The…rich together with fertile soil…invites us to its cultivation. Nothing should last allowed to interfere betwixt us together with the soil… </div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Edward Wilmot Blyden On Liberia

Edward Wilmot Blyden (b. 8/3/1832 - d. 2/7/1912) On August 3,1832, Edward Wilmot Blyden was born inwards Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island, West Indies. He is considered by many hi…

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