#lafrik

[small-dev]

Progress 2024.02.21

Yesterday I checked two libraries:

github.com/lafriks/go-tiled

github.com/MelonFunction/ebiten-camera

I have decided to use go-tiled because it saves me effort on parsing Tiled.tmx files and I have already integrated it into my project.

I have decided against using ebiten-camera because I got a bit of a brainexplode looking through their example code. I might change my mind later

Total time wasted on the project yesterday: 2 hours

[miuimusic]

Lafrik

[buildinglifeforhaiti]

Èske moun ki nwa yo ta dwe kretyen?

Gen yon mit ki di pèp Afriken yo ke Krisyanis se yon relijyon nan moun blan. Rasin krisyanis yo nan Lafrik; Se poutèt sa, li pa ka konsidere kòm yon relijyon blan. Verite a nan pwoblèm nan sèke disip yo te pote bon nouvèl Jezikri pou Ewòp. Tout disip yo ak Jezikri li menm te premye sou tè Afriken an. Bib la pa kapab yon liv nonm blan, depi scripts orijinal yo te nan lang ebre, ebre,  ak grèk. Sa…

[netalkolemedia]

Lafrik lanse yon apèl ijan pou mande sekou pou Ayiti

Lafrik lanse yon apèl ijan pou mande sekou pou Ayiti

Sou inisyativ Adama Dieng ki se ansyen sekretè jeneral adjwen Nasyonzini, plizyè gwo pèsonalite sou kontinan afriken an lanse yon apèl ijan anfavè Ayiti pou mande kominote entènasyonal la aji vit pou ede peyi a sòti nan sitiyasyon tèt chaje li ye jounen jodia. Nan yon tribin ki òganize sou kontinan afriken an kote sitiyasyon Ayiti an te pami sijè ki t ap diskite yo, yon total 31 pèsonalite siyen…

[christophelandry-blog]

A 1526 #worldmap by #Portuguese #cartographer #DiegoRibero from persepective of #western #europeans of course. Note the names they assigned to various parts of #Lafrik (#Africa). #Lazi #Lamérik #kourivini #Mauritania #Lamoritònni #Egypt #Léjip #Guinea #Ginné #Ethiopia #Léchopi #Lybia #Libi #Americas #Asia #Europe #Léròp

[rockofeye]

Hello again, I'm the one who asked about Gads. Hope you're doing well I wanted to also ask about how many nations of Lwa there are and why theyre normally only counted as Rada, (sometimes Nago), Petro, and Ghede?

Hi,

There are lots! I think in diaspora outside of Haiti, folks usually refer to Rada/Petwo/Gede because it's easy and because in diaspora those are often the least challenging to serve in temples housed in private homes (with some exceptions). It's also true that not all sosyetes or lakou serve all the nations of lwa. Some have regleman for some but not all, and some only focus on one rite/nation, like in the various lakou in/near Souvenance in Haiti...there is a lakou that focuses on the Dahomey rite, one that focuses on Kongo, and one on Nago.

It's generally accepted that there are 21 nasyon of lwa, but what those nasyon are can vary based on lineage, location, and general knowledge. Here's how I know them (give or take...I am probably forgetting a couple), with various differences noted.

I refer to some of the nations as rites because there are particular ways these spirits are served...it's not just that there are all these nations are they are treated the same.

Dahomey: this is a rite that isn't usually practiced in asson lineages or really much outside of Haiti. The biggest center of this rite is at/around Gran Lakou Souvnans not far from Gonaives. It's considered a direct tie to the kingdom of Dahomey in Lafrik, to the point where it is believed there is a direct passageway through the earth that emerges in modern day Benin. I really love the drumming of this rite.

Rada: A really well known rite, often associated with the yanvalou rhythm among others. The lwa who reside within this nation are considered royalty in a lot of ways, like the Dahomey rite there are pretty direct connections to Africa. Lwa like Danbala, Agwe, Loko, Ezili Freda, and others live here. Folks consider this a very calm rite BUT I think that is an underestimation. These lwa can be very slow to anger, but think of what could happen if the great white serpent who spans the space between heaven and earth decides he is unhappy, or if the embodiment of the oceans turns against you or the first houngan decides you have betrayed him. It's complex.

Nago: A blended nation; many lwa within this rite originated in the Yoruba kingdom and quite a few sprang up directly from the island itself as Bwa Kayiman began. These lwa are not the same as orisa, which is an understandable confusion for some folks. They have the same root, but those roots diverged across the Middle Passage. Lwa like Ogou, Jean Pòl Nago, and others live here. Lakou Badjo in the Souvenans area has it's own Nago rite, which is different than how many other lineages hold Nago.

Djouba: This is where Kouzen and his family live. Some folks call this Matinik or Djouba-Matinik; this has a couple different possible origins. Some stories say Kouzen is originally from Martinique, some folks say Matinik refers to the drums and/or drumming style used for this rite. There are all different set ups for drums depending on what nation you are playing for, and there used to be specific drums made for the Djouba rite. Stories say there was one lakou in Haiti that had a set, but that the knowledge to make them (since the making of drums is highly ritualized) was lost and once that set was no longer playable the specific drum style was lost.

Petwo/Petro: A nation known for it's firey spirits. Some of the rites after this get folded into the Petwo rite in many lineages since they are so similar and the lwa within them are served similarly. Many of these spirits are the spirits of revolution who work hard and fast and burn like fire. Some folks do not serve them fully in the US because of space and logistical constraints (hard to have a bonfire at a crossroads in most places..), but many of the names are familiar to folks...Mèt Kafou, Ezili Danto, Simbi, Ti Jean Petwo, Kriminel, etc.

Kongo Fran: Another rite focused in a specific area in Haiti at Lakou Soukri. While most lineages in Haiti celebrate Kongo spirits, they are honored in other rites...lots of Kongo spirits like Ren Kongo and Wa Kongo and to some extent Lasiren are honored in the Rada rite, and some are honored in the Petwo rite, like Simbi. Lakou Soukri and areas surrounding have the Kongo Fran rite, though. Some folks will often name a Kongo Savann rite which I have understood as being closer to Petwo style service.

Gede and Bawon: Gede and the various Bawon get grouped together because they deal with various aspects of death and because the drums are often the same. Different labels are used for reasons that are known in particular lineages. Gede is often referred to as a fanmi/family, versus a nasyon/nation, and the various Bawon are often referred to as a divisyon/division. The family of Gede is full of spirits who were once people, but the various Bawon are the actual embodiment of death; there is a Bawon who oversees cemeteries, there is a Bawon who is the first man buried in each ceremony, there is a Bawon who is head of all the Bawon and oversees the Gede and the creation of new Gede. It's kind of like a mafia family to be quite honest..there are bosses and capos and soldiers. Sometimes it gets even further broken down to divisyon Lakwa etc.

From here, things get a little more wobbly. Some folks will say that a particular nasyon is not really a nasyon or they are a part of another or have a different understanding. None of it is necessarily wrong, but just different, and not everyone will deal with all of them. Most vodouizan can recognize maybe a dozen or fifteen different nasyon..but there are lots. Here's a vague list of others I know of and others that I have seen folks recognize:

Takwa*

Sinigal*

Wangol*

Bonba/Bomba*

Kita*

Anmin*

Kangale/Kangale Kanga*

Manding/Mandingue*

Ibo**

Makaya***

Zandò*

Moundong Mousay/Mousai*

Bizango or Chanpwel/Sanpwel****

*These nasyon are often sung for alongside Petwo regleman, and some of them will arrive in the Petwo rite, like Kita, Makaya, Zandò

**Ibo is often sung for alongside Kongo spirits and will arrive around then too

***Makaya is sometimes called a nasyon and sometimes called a completely separate rite, not unlike Bizango, Chanpwel, etc

****Some people hold to Bizango and Sanpwel/Chanpwel being nasyon alongside others, but I have seen them most held as separate sosyete...lots of folks call them secret societies, but that's really based around structure versus existence and what happens within those societies. Some sosyete are fran Ginen and Bizango/Sanpwel/Zobop etc and have both within one lakou but generally they are held separately...like, they would not do both in the same ceremony.

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Depending on how folks consider things, that's what usually makes up about 20 nations. A lot of folks hold to nation #21 as being L'Univers or similar...basically everything that we may not yet know or that may not yet have a name or that belongs to Bondye. Kind of like leaving the door open for Bondye to work how it wants.

Maybe this was more than you hoped for? Don't know...please let me know if things are not as clear as they could be.

[patriyotrenione]

News from Africa

LAFRIK The Ivorian people have shown the world that they have evolved, by refusing to allow General Gueï's military junta to remain in power despite the contrary results of the ballot boxes which gave victory to the socialist candidate Gbagbo. In this kind of situation, democracy is not achieved by wrapping oneself in silk sheets, since nearly 20 people died in two days. The clashes with the gendarmerie and special forces attached to the presidency of the Republic - whoever it may be - and the supporters of the "excluded" candidate Allassane Ouattara, Muslims and the voters of the elected president, with a Christian majority, have shown, however, that Africa remains exposed to ethnic wars.

While the OAU, the UN and the Americans insist on new elections that would give equal opportunities to all candidates, most of whom, Ouattara and Konan Bédié in particular, were arbitrarily excluded from the elections by General Gueï, France, on the other hand, has made it known that it considers Gbagbo's election as the new head of civil state of Côte d'Ivoire to be entirely legitimate. This point of view did not surprise any observer, since the socialist government of Lionel Jospin only supports the Ivorian socialist comrade Gbagbo. But the situation in Côte d'Ivoire remains uncertain, despite the calm that has returned. Ouattara is not giving up the supreme magistracy and is obviously counting on the Muslim population, like him, to get himself elected in the simplest way possible. The former minister of the founding father of Côte d'Ivoire, Houphouët-Boigny, who died in 1993, was well placed to know that "the Old Man" was able to reign unchallenged for thirty years, relying in the poor and Muslim north on the many African foreigners from neighbouring countries who had come to "seek fortune" in Côte d'Ivoire, which, since the end of French colonization, had become one of the best governed and prosperous African countries on the black continent. Despite a self-limited dictatorship that allowed Félix Houphouët-Boigny to go down in history as one of the great heads of state of this twentieth century.

[thefrumiousconsortium]

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark (@pdjeliclark) lets the bon adventure temps rouler with plenty of spice from Lafrik — more, please says Doug (@bagatsen)

“The night in New Orleans always got something going on, ma maman used to say—like this city don’t know how to sleep.” (p. 7) It doesn’t, and neither does P. Djèlí Clark’s splendid, exciting, enchanting novella The Black God’s Drums.

Clark’s first-person narrator, a slightly feral young woman named Creeper, makes her own way in the city, avoiding the constables, the patrols that would get her…

[jakonews]

Tweeted

Ane sa a, 2 prezidan ki enplike nan koripsyon demisyone. Prezidan Lafrik di sid, Jakòb Zuma ak prezidan Perou, Pedro Kuczynski. Men Ayisyen ki mande pou Jovenel Moise demisyon pou pwose #PetroCaribe a mache, paske li koupab nan Petro-vòl la tou, se woulibe nou ye? 🙄 pic.twitter.com/qUdKgFOtep

— Madan Boukman #PetroCaribeCorruption (@madanboukman) November 11, 2018

[mallemnounou-blog]

Wtf 🤕🤕 cnx in lafrik bb

[y-hamza]

Nekdeb?

Ferme les yeux, et si par malheur tchouf kesh 7adja (acte barbare, un comportement loin de civisme, … Etc) dit la variété partage ça, ou pas?!

[christophelandry-blog]

A 1526 #worldmap by #Portuguese #cartographer #DiegoRibero from persepective of #western #europeans of course. Note the names they assigned to various parts of #Lafrik (#Africa). #Lazi #Lamérik #kourivini #Mauritania #Lamoritònni #Egypt #Léjip #Guinea #Ginné #Ethiopia #Léchopi #Lybia #Libi #Americas #Asia #Europe #Léròp

[rockofeye]

Bon Jour! I hope all is well. Prior to the start of the new year, I get a reading to get some guidance on the upcoming year. This year I got a cowrie shell reading. This person had very clear messages for me, including some from my ancestors. Some my ancestors were priests/esses of Osun in Haiti. The reader encouraged me to figure out who is Osun's equivalent in Lwa. Can you give me any insight on who that is? And how I can pay my respects as someone who isn't initiated in Vodun?

Hi,

So, there are some big red flags in this.

It would be disrespectful to Osun to assume that there is an equivalent for her; it reduces her to a thing versus an autonomous spirit. In a similar way, it would be disrespectful to approach any lwa with the mindset of 'you are the stand-in for Osun'. None of them are going to be thrilled with that.

Osun also never really developed in Haiti; while many spirits from the Yoruba kingdom arrived in Haiti via the Middle Passage, there are many that did not, and Osun was one of them. Is it possible that those who served her in Lafrik arrived on the island? Sure...but for whatever reason Osun chose not to establish herself in Haiti.

If you are interested in Osun, you should be speaking to Orisa practitioners; it's very odd for an Orisa priest to encourage someone to find an equivalent because of how Osun is revered and conceived of...there is no equivalent. If you have Haitian ancestors, that is something different and you could could consult a houngan or a manbo about how to connect with your roots.

I hope this helps. My recommendation for readings in the future is be clear on what a reader can do for you. If I do a reading, I cannot speak for Orisa...I only speak for the lwa and someone's ancestors, if those ancestors choose to speak. If someone has questions about Orisa, the best I can do for them is ask the lwa if that is the direction that person should move...and sometimes that's a little too far.

I hope this helps!

[y-hamza]

L'avion est le moyen de transport le plus sûr (sauf fi lafrik)

[y-hamza]

Le chef 3andou toujours el 7a9