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"Latest scientific evidences have shown that a mix of genes among Australian Aboriginals and Tamils exists. Previous reports showed existence of some gene flow to Australia from India about 12 millennia back."

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#AfricanDiaspora #Sidis #India #SOAS #TrueWorldView #ShihanDaSilva #Africa (at School of Oriental & African Studies)

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#African #AfricanAmerican #motherland ##pride #panafricanf #AfricanDiaspora #blackpeople #blackisbeautiful #blackpower #blackpride #blackawarenes #blackgoddess #AfricanQueen #AfricanKing #truth #embraceit

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"Afrodominicana resolves for me the mixture, that is to say that Dominican is a historical construction of mixtures of cultures: Spanish, African, and indigenous" yessss

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A Documentary on the Evolution of Spiritists’ Traditions in Puerto Rico

“Let the Spirit Move You is a celebration of ancestral belief systems that are a proud and important part of our cultural legacy as African descendants. The documentary focuses on the African based spiritual traditions that continue in Puerto Rico grounded in ancestral worship - espiristmo. Because of misinformation and preconceptions, to date there is little information on the sacred African traditions that are part of the cultural life of Puerto Rico. These traditions have generally been practiced out of public view and now with the advent of Evangelical types of religions labeling these traditions as “devil worship” many practitioners out of fear are going further underground or giving up these important historical ancestral traditions.”

Help this tradition of the diaspora have its story told.

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here is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it. And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song. In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them. The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another. And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person. You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

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Don’t forget! Next Monday 9pm est is our second Twitter Party! This week’s topic is Religion. Follow us @afrolatinostv and don’t miss out on the conversation! Spread the word! #UNLLAMADO

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this is everything. 

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African Tribe Lost in India (Gujarat)

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Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) pugilist, James Morka. date of photo, uncertain. 

courtesy of Schomburg Center webpage on the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World. 

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HET-HERU (greek - Hathor) Kamitic: Het-Heru, Nebt-Het Canaanite: Hana-El Kabbalistical: Netzach Yoruba: Oshun Indus Kush: Kamalatmika Correspondences taken from Metu Neter vol. 1 by Ra Un Nefer Amen, Khamit Media Trans Visions Inc (1990).

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NEW BOOK: "The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival and the Making of the Garifuna" by Christopher Taylor

"The 204 page book, “The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival and The Making of The Garifuna” is a historical account with new details of the Garifuna (then known as Black Caribs) fight to stay free on the site of their ancestral homeland, St. Vincent.  The book covers the 17th and 18th Centuries (1600s-1700s) from the origins of the Garifuna in St. Vincent in the 1600s, their uneasy alliances (and conflicts, wars, battles) with Great Britain and France over the years and finally their expulsion from St. Vincent in 1797."  See more of this interview! 

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Shaping Membership, Defining Nation: The Cultural Politics of African Indians in South Asia

- Pashington Obeng

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Picture credit: Runoko Rashidi, historian and independent scholar who studies African presence across the globe.