I sat down with my Kingman, Manou Maka Africa, and asked him if he would speak to Black History month. I told him that I respected what he’d shared in the past about Black History Month being the shortest month of the year, and being that Black people built this country, being that Black people are African and African rooted people, African people gave birth to humanity, Black History Month wasn’t enough. But I’d recently noticed a shifting perspective. So, I asked him if he’d riff on anything that came to his mind starting with Black History Month. I turned on my recorder and then transcribed what he said. Here it is. Enjoy:
“What Black History Month mean to me, and I think to the people of United States of America, the African American people, is to celebrate the heritage, the culture, the standing for justice, liberation from all everything Black People been through. And to celebrate joy, happiness, and love. And for me an African, Black History month feels like it’s 13 months because you cannot celebrate the heritage for just 28 days. You cannot represent African life for one month out of the year. But I still give thanks for my brothers and sisters, African and American to have that so they can call their own. So that’s how I approach it, even I have my own thing about it as an African. But I support. I come to learn more about what it means to my people here in America.”
“We call upon 12 months. But it’s 13 months. There’s a month missing in those months. That’s why I always use 13 months. I’m still searching what that 13th month represent. I know I see it a lot in Kush, in Ethiopia where it’s 13 months of sunshine and you know… And I see where we come to the Torah, you know where we see where Dina was taken out and for me Dina represents the 13 tribes, you know? And they always talk about the lost tribe. But what is that lost tribe for me? If there’s a lost tribe then there’s a lost month because we’re dealing with a different timing and calendar. When we check all the signs we been checking, we go deep to those things and find there’s deeper knowledge than that. So that’s why I say 13 months. I’m searching deeper knowledge.”
“I livicate my life to be a gatekeeper of I history and I culture, I roots and I knowledge, I wisdom and I overstanding, right? Because growing up as a youth in Africa I never learn about my own god and goddess or high priest and priestess, or warriors and healers. And we didn’t get chance to know those thing growing up, so it took a while to discover. So, from being a baby you know to a certain age past 10 you still don’t learn about your own people. When Rastafari come, he come with a really deep vibration, connecting my whole being and awaken in me what makes me a human. Everything in me kind of shake up where I start going deep to the learnings of Africans. And coming to America and meeting my Empress I go deep again to the books of African heritage. So I learn deep, and deeper, and deeper. That’s why I always talk about Africa. InI keep that heritage so I can teach it to my children, my grandchildren and the whole world to know where Africa stand, where Alkebulan stand in the Creation of humanity. And we cannot push it out when we know most of Europe and Asia is African knowledge who went through those places. You know?”
“Sometime it’s intense. Because I receive messages and I receive work I have to do, and I feel like I didn’t do it yet. But for me too is just joyful to keep my ancestor’s name in the presence of humanity. And never back up from it. My ancestors did work everywhere. It’s not just, you know, in central Africa. Because Africans are everywhere. You know? Africans are everywhere. And they went everywhere. You know? But it's never been taught in school or written in books. People will spend time writing books about Christopher Columbus. I’m into the writings about the Kush I or the Kemet I or the Moors and, you know, who really branch to places and bring knowledge, wisdom, culture, science, philosophy, medicine, spirituality. So that’s what is a kind of blessing and privilege to accept that work and keep moving on with it. Through Rastafari all that work come through. Cause when I follow the Majesty that’s where things really start and InI knowing I have mission to keep. This vision is bringing me to Love For Humanity.”
“The liberation I really want to get is to love unconditionally and not stress. Just to wake up every day and be in the same vibration with my Empress and not shaking the house, not changing the vibration. Just every day I got to keep doing work. Make it all happen. That’s a big liberation. We love to travel, be part of things. So that is a part of my liberation. Bringing Love For Humanity to the whole world.”
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