If God gave you the supernatural ability to create your own country on Earth, what would be the name? What would it look like? Where would it be located? Choose up to six or less countries from any era of mankind (i.e., ancient, medieval, or the modern era) that could be combined and blended all in one. Image I (Top Left): Sri Lanka: Paradise Island in South Asia Image II (Top Right): The Great Benin Empire: (Present-day Southern Nigeria) Image III (Middle Left): Zanzibar:

“Like Rome came into Kemet (i.e., ancient Egypt) and they stole the essence before they watered it down and taught us bogus lessons. Written in stone, write whatever in your history books, me and ancient Egyptian skin tone had similar looks.”    – Nas, Nas is Good, King’s Disease II Image I (Left): Nas: The King of Queens: Nas is like... half-man, half-amazin'. Courtesy of Grzegorz Więckowski, via Pinterest   Nas and Blu & Exile are some of my favorite music artists’, and my

Image I (Left): Sundiata Keita, the king of Mali defeated King Sumanguru of ancient Ghana in 1235 AD. Sundiata means “Hungering Lion” and “The Lion King.”  He was afflicted as a child, and his indomitable courage to overcome his affliction earned him that name.   “The most important overall outcome was radical changes in the traditional constitution (i.e., the traditional African Constitution and the Fundamental Rights of the African People). To begin with, religion was draw

According to Dr. Walter Rodney, author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Politico-military development in Africa from 1500 to 1885 meant that African social collectives had become more capable of defending the interests of their members, as opposed to the interests of the people outside the given community. It also meant that the individual in a politically mature and militarily strong state would be free from the external threat of physical removal. He would have more opp

Image I (Left): Susan Casey’s Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins Image II (Middle): Courtesy of Yuchao, via Shein, Pinterest   “Water has a deep meaning,” Jean-Luc Bizzoli, artist, collaborator and longtime friend of Joan Ocean said. “And the whales and dolphins have a lot to teach us about that. Water is like the biggest computer of the universe. It holds the memory of everything, of all that is and that ever was.”   Image III (Right)

Image I (Left): Africa’s Wild Dogs: A survival story, by Jocelin Kagan The African Wild Dogs, or painted wolves are the "small warriors of Africa" who are smart and sociable hunters, who are also charismatic, enterprising and impressive animals that deserve their place in the pantheon as some of the greatest predators Africa has ever produced.  Image II (Right): Courtesy of Jenna, via Pinterest  African Wild Dogs are one of the greatest predators that Africa has ever produced

During the 19 th  century, the Tukulor Empire was the largest and most powerful state in the Western Sudan. Image I (Left): Ahmadu Tall,...

“The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest in the world, surpassed only by the Amazon, and is often called the ‘green heart of...

Image I (Left): Priest, Warrior King and Orisha Oduduwa of the Ife (Yoruba) Kingdom (Yorubaland: Present-day Southwest Nigeria, a smaller part of Benin Republic, and still a smaller part of Togo Republic, West Africa) Image II (Right): Mamoon Mengal’s picture of the “Priest King” sculpture from the Mohenjo-Daro site. (Indus Valley Civilization: Present-day Western India and Pakistan, South Asia) The civilizations of Yorubaland (West Africa) and the Indus Valley Civilization (

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” – Poet James Baldwin   Image courtesy of My Kemetic Dreams What happened to the people now known as African Americans is different to what happened to other groups of American people. The “Americanization,”  which is the process of people becoming American by absorbing and adopting American culture, and American culture is fundamentally Anglo-Saxon culture, which is German in orig

Yoruba mythology is a rich tradition from West Africa. Yoruba myths share stories of gods, heroes, and the power of nature.  Ochosi, the...

Image I (Left): Above is a painting of a Tuscarora soldier (South Carolina). Image II (Right): Painting of Black Native Americans (BNA) of San Francisco by Jean Franquelin. There were over 100 Black Native American tribes in present-day California when the Spanish arrived. “Pre-Columbian contact between Africa and America in the later half of the fifteenth century has also been proven by another aspect of the cotton evidence. There were Haitian reports of large boats from Gui

“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).” – Dr. Chancellor Williams “Thus politically, but far more intellectually, was Songhay (Songhai) restored to its ancient position as a child of Egypt.” – Flora L. Shaw (Lady Lugard) The kingdom of Thebes of ancient Egypt is the most important single city in the history of Black people. According to Dr. Chancellor Williams, author of The Dest

“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...

“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...

Image I (Left): Ife bronze of King Oduduwa (Yoruba (Ife) people, Ife Kingdom; Ife Empire) Image II (Right): The Pendent Ivory Mask of Queen Idia (Edo people; The Great Benin Empire)   “All evidence from the traditions of most of these Yoruba kingdoms emphasize the attractiveness of Benin. Benin was, to them (the Yoruba people), a Yoruba kingdom whose common citizens happened to speak a non-Yoruba language.” – Dr. Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, author of A History of the Yoruba Pe

“Belief in their one Creator or God and the Oneness of all things was the most fundamental principle underlying the Lemurian philosophy...

“During times of slavery many Africans Transported to the New World (i.e., the American continent) maintained the spiritual view of...

“At the heart of Buddhism lies the figure of the Buddha, or Siddhartha Gautama, who achieved enlightenment and became the Awakened One.”...

The myth of Ausar (i.e., Osiris) was the earliest recorded story of a godman who was symbolically crucified, resurrected from death and...