I spend a lot of time talking about names: government names, nicknames or basket names. Today, I want to shed light on some of the beautiful Fulɓe, Maninka, Mandinka and Bamana names we have. As yo…

Here we go again. Black Brilliance is being, once again, dissected, investigated and punished (oop, I may be flagged as using a.i. because of this rule of 3). We’re currently living through a…

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Here we go again. Black Brilliance is being, once again, dissected, investigated and punished (oop, I may be flagged as using a.i. because of this rule of 3). We’re currently living through a…

“If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it.” This is Yacouba Sawadogo, the man who stopped th…

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From Bamana Latourou to digital computers The more things change, the more they stay the same, innit? They lied to us when they said that slavery and colonialism were over. While their ancient form…

In May 2025 Passuh D. Danyelle Thomas, author of The Day God Saw Me As Black, posted a carousel on Instagram titled “ The Blood Remembers…

Originally published on The Kraal James Baldwin once said: “To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” I cannot speak on what it means to be an …

Tɔgɔ ɲuman? Originally published on The Kraal A name is an identifier by which we label the universe surrounding us, the world within us, each other and ourselves. Existence is linked to naming for…

Originally published on The Kraal One of the most evident and striking linguistic retentions from Africa that are found in Ebonics are repetitions. Both on the continent and in the diaspora, repeti…

Originally published on The Kraal One of the most evident and striking linguistic retentions from Africa that are found in Ebonics are repetitions. Both on the continent and in the diaspora, repeti…

Originally published by the Fruitslice (link p 49; magazine p 35) Colonization did a number on all of us. From displacing entire populations, bending nature to colonizers’ will and uprooting trees …

From the early African Muslims on Turtle Island to the Blues First published by Sapelo Square Among Black populations, whether in casual or religious settings, communication is never from A to B. I…

“I didn’t have a pen and paper, so I just dictated ‘A Dying Colonialism’ and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ to my secretary, Marie-Jeanne Manuellan. Uh uh uh – Frantz Fanon, peut-être Language i…

“I didn’t have a pen and paper, so I just dictated ‘A Dying Colonialism’ and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ to my secretary, Marie-Jeanne Manuellan. Uh uh uh - Frantz Fanon, peut-être

From the early African Muslims on Turtle Island to the Blues