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Nothing is More Powerful Than a Made up Mind
calmandstrong
Sep 3, 20245 min read
Yoruba Orisha Ochosi and Early Yoruba Civilization
Yoruba mythology is a rich tradition from West Africa. Yoruba myths share stories of gods, heroes, and the power of nature. Ochosi, the...
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calmandstrong
Aug 8, 202410 min read
Who Were the Original Native Americans?
Image I (Left): Above is a painting of a Tuscarora soldier (South Carolina). Image II (Right): Painting of Black Native Americans (BNA)...
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calmandstrong
Apr 24, 202424 min read
The Ancient Egypt and Songhai Empire Connection: Sophisticated University Kingdoms of Africa
“If Blacks of today want to measure the distance to the heights from which they have fallen, they need go no farther than Nowe (Thebes).”...
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calmandstrong
Apr 9, 20248 min read
The Return of the Yoruba Nation
“The Yoruba religion is the science of allowing God to flow through you, so that each breath becomes a prayer, and as God breathes, you...
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calmandstrong
Mar 27, 202425 min read
A Journey to my Motherland: Part II: Alkebu-lan (Africa): Land of the Spirit People
“To keep the picture as clear as possible, we have to keep on remembering that at various periods in ancient times, the ‘Land of the...
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calmandstrong
Feb 28, 20247 min read
A Journey to my Motherland: Part I: Yorubaland and The Great Benin Empire
Image I (Left): Ife bronze of King Oduduwa (Yoruba (Ife) people, Ife Kingdom; Ife Empire) Image II (Right): The Pendent Ivory Mask of...
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calmandstrong
Feb 21, 20246 min read
Lemuria: The Spirituality & Philosophy of The Motherland of Man
“Belief in their one Creator or God and the Oneness of all things was the most fundamental principle underlying the Lemurian philosophy...
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calmandstrong
Feb 13, 20246 min read
African Medicine: Yoruba Spiritualty & Philosophy
“During times of slavery many Africans Transported to the New World (i.e., the American continent) maintained the spiritual view of...
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calmandstrong
Feb 7, 20245 min read
Buddhism in the Modern World
“At the heart of Buddhism lies the figure of the Buddha, or Siddhartha Gautama, who achieved enlightenment and became the Awakened One.”...
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calmandstrong
Jan 17, 20245 min read
Kemetic Diet: How to Become Ausar-Like
The myth of Ausar (i.e., Osiris) was the earliest recorded story of a godman who was symbolically crucified, resurrected from death and...
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calmandstrong
Jan 3, 20248 min read
The Asante Educational System before the coming of the Western (European) Educational System
Image I (Left): Map of the Asante Empire (present-day Ghana) in West Africa Image II (Right): The majestic influence of the Asante Empire...
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calmandstrong
Dec 13, 20235 min read
The Influential West African Empire of Ife during Medieval Times
“One of the most considerable countries of the Sudan, and their sultan, one of the greatest sultans.” – Famous Historian of the Medieval...
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calmandstrong
Nov 29, 202314 min read
The Beginnings of Humanity: Straight Outta Africa (Alkebu-lan: Land of the Spirit People)
“For some 600,000 years, Africa and Africans led the world.” – Lerone Bennett, author of Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in...
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calmandstrong
Oct 25, 202320 min read
Children of the Sun: The Importance of Melanin for Black People
“They were ‘Children of the Sun’ blessed with blackness by the Sun God himself and thus protected from his fiery rays. They were his...
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calmandstrong
Oct 4, 202318 min read
The Magical Land of Lemuria
Lemuria, the lost continent that was located in the Pacific Ocean with a population of 64 million people In 1998, Dr. Bruce Goldberg...
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calmandstrong
Sep 20, 202325 min read
The Fabled Kingdom of Timbuktu (West Africa)
The University of Sankoré, Timbuktu “… The first, and perhaps the most important fact is that the general enslavement of Africans,...
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calmandstrong
Jun 28, 202318 min read
The Enlightened Ones of the Medieval and Ancient World: King Oduduwa & The Buddha
Native (Yoruba) tradition tells that through the centuries, Oduduwa was a warrior and priest king ruling equally. The Buddha, a great...
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Jun 22, 20234 min read
Black Panther: Marvel's First African Superhero Shines at the Box Office
Posted on 23 February, 2018 at 11:00 A fictional superhero story with real-life social commentary, and undertones that have some truths....
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Aug 23, 202219 min read
The Songhai: The Last Great Empire of West Africa before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Songhai people were the nuclear group that was to build their name to the greatest African empire of the 15th and 16th centuries....
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Aug 8, 202210 min read
The Greatness of Black India: The Dravido-Harappans of the Indus Valley Civilization
More than 140 million years ago, when India was part of Gondwana, which was an immense supercontinent that broke away from a single...
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