Maafa Kebuka 2015


REMEMBERING THE GREAT DESTRUCTION!

MAAFA KEBUKA 2014


THERE IS AN AWESOME AMOUNT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN ORDER TO TRULY HEAL THE HISTORIC WRONGS AND POLITICAL ILLS SUFFERED BY AFRIKANS IN THIS CITY AND STATE.

THIS IS A CALL TO ALL PAN-AFRIKAN NATIONALISTS, COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, CULTURAL ARTISTS: DRUMMERS, DANCERS, SINGERS, NATURAL HEALERS, STORYTELLERS, ELDERS, WARRIORS AND WARRIOR SCHOLARS AND INTELLECTUALS, AFRICAN CENTERED EDUCATORS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, STUDENTS AND ALL WHO UNAPOLOGETICALLY DECLARE THEMSELVES AS AFRIKAN AND ANYONE WHO CARES AND IS COMMITTED TO THE CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, ECONOMIC, ACADEMIC, AND POLITICAL UPLIFTMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE!

THIS IS A CALLING FOR THE DESCENDANTS OF AFRIKA TO JOIN FORCES AND COME TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THE CONTINUING CRIES FOR JUSTICE, HEALING AND LIBERATION!!!  (ABIBIFAHODIE = AFRIKAN LIBERATION)

THE FRUSTRATION, FEAR, MALICE AND CONFUSION SURROUNDING THE CONTINUING TRAUMATIC IMPACT OF THIS LEGACY FOR FAR TOO LONG BEEN BURIED  IN LIES, A FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY AND A CENTURIES LONG WIDENING OF UNHEALED WOUNDS.  THE UNBROKEN CHAINS OF THE CAPTURE, TRADE AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRIKANS, COUPLED WITH THE COLONIZATION, RACIAL INJUSTICE AND CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF THE ONLY ONGOING CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, REQUIRE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FORTIFIED IN THE  TRADITION(S) OF AFRIKAN SPIRITUALITY AND HEALING.

THIS WILL BE THE FIRST OF ITS KIND HERE IN RICHMOND VA.

Maafa Kebuka 
Which means - Remembering the Great Destruction
[Maafa Commemoration and Afrikan Spiritual Convocation and Healing Ritual]

THIS WILL BE A 3 DAY EVENT:

Thu May 8, 2014
MUSE Creative Work Space                                                
6 N 19th Street Richmond, VA Shockoe Bottom
6pm - 9pm
Silent Processional & Theatrical Performance
Taaluma Youth Performance Company
Richmond Youth Jazz Guild & Baba Sekou Shabaka
Maat Free: Journey Through the Forest of Family Trees
Sister Patricia: Spoken word      
[Processional  will start 6pm at African Burial Ground ending at MUSE Creative Work Space]
*We Encourage Pre-Registration But Not Required

Fri May 9, 2014
MUSE Creative Work Space                                                
6 N 19th Street Richmond, VA Shockoe Bottom   
5pm - 9pm
Panel Discussion and Village Meeting: Healing,  Nation-building, Re-Afrikanization and Rebirth of Afrikan Civilization

Sat May 10, 2014
Manchester Docks (along the James River at far east end of Maury Street)
Noon - 4pm
Akom (Akan) & Bembe (Yoruba)
Communicating with the Deities: Abosom, Orisha, Loa, Neteru
Afrikan Spirituality and Healing Ritual
African Attire (or White) is Encouraged
No Food Vendors
Please Bring Your Own Lunch
Admission: Free to the Community

Map of Manchester Docks:
http://www.hmdb.org/map.asp?markers=30065,41821,30066,41871,41872,15508,15698,41828,61821

The historical significance and why this event will take place at the Manchester Docks:
"In the late 1700s, newly captured Africans walked this route from the docks to the salve jails near 15th and Franklin Streets. Chained at the neck and legs, they were marched at night to avoid offending citizens with their oozing sores, filth and stench from the slave ships." There is a reason why when you leave the city of Richmond you can feel it.  An eery feeling of something is trying to reel you back in.  I feeling of escaping some hovering cloud of stagnation.  Many of our ancestors were brought here against their will.  Shipped and unloaded like livestock.   

It begins at Manchester Docks, a major port in the massive downriver Slave Trade that made Richmond the largest source of enslaved Africans on the east coast of America from 1830 to 1860. The trail then follows a route through the slave markets of Richmond, beside the Reconciliation Statue commemorating the international triangular slave trade, past Lumpkin's Slave Jail and the Negro Burial Ground to First African Baptist Church, a center of African-American life in pre-Civil War Richmond.

For More Information email us at afrikanshrines@gmail.com

This gathering is brought to you by the efforts of The Black History Museum, Ankobea Society-NSAA (National Shrines of Afrikans in America)
In Association with Culture4MyKids, Richmond Kwanzaa Kollective and Umoja Temple











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