As November 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the formation of the All African Women's Revolutionary Union [AAWRU]- the women's wing of the All African People's Revolutionary Party [AAPRP], this September 2007 tribute to Queen Mother Mawina Sowa the first global central committee coordinator of the AAWRU is being shared. May Maat be restored! May A NU Humanity be resurrected and genuine RAspect amongst women, men, children and families be forged from this point forward! Forward ever! Backward never!
Hotep:
A Tribute to Mama Mwt (Sacred Nurturing Mother) Mawina Sowa
From Dr. ChenziRa Kahina of Per Ankh (House of Life), St. Croix, Virgin Islands-September 6247ST/2007AD
My life (along with others in our work study circle) experienced a serious revolutionary shift in 1979 when I first heard a live presentation by Eldress Sis "Mwt" Mawina at an AAPRP program in New York. She inspired many of us to recognize the importance of women and children in the Afrakan revolution working in collaboration with our men. Mwt Mawina encouraged many of us, especially those of us who came with our "ultra-petite bourgeois thought for action" program in our lives to put our people and the needs of our Afrakan nation for the betterment of humanity first and foremost in our lives. This was quite radical for the commonly "me-phi-me" thinking process we were inundated with especially in the late 70's into the 80's. So, I continue to give honor, praise and sacred recognition to Mwt Mawina for sharing a grass roots reality check as exemplified through her actions for those of us willing to listen and adhere to the words of such a powerful, assertive yet compassionate woman who placed the people before self in many aspects of her life's work.
Whenever I reflect on Mwt Mawina, I often recall a meeting held in the then "Africa House" at City College in Harlem with many scholars and students from around the NY/NJ metropolitan area and the manner in which she brought fire to the table when some of us young sisters who were new to revolutionary thought and action nearly forgot our place with some elders that tried to deal only with theory when many of us were ready for the action part of the revolution!!! Mwt Mawina expressed to us the importance of having patience with our Afrakan people based on the centuries and millennia of miseducation imposed upon us by institutions we need to study, research and learn to struggle forward beyond. This was a hard lesson to many of us who were quite hot-headed in that early 80's period. She taught us qualities and character that encouraged revolutionary compassionate strength in our organizing work with our people and that of others who live and struggle for positive revolutionary action.
When the AAWRU formed (1980) and there were various regional meetings within the AAPRP to address its' formation and the development of curriculum for the Young Pioneers' Institute (YPI), Mwt Mawina was a formidable cornerstone of strength, wisdom and encouragement for the seemingly endless struggles endured by many for the productive and revolutionary development and maintenance of the women's union. Mwt Mawina encouraged many of us to network and collaborate in ways that we were unaware of to strengthen the longevity and positive outcomes of our YPI and AAWRU work in concert with the AAPRP. While patience is a virtue I need to still improve upon, in my younger years it was women like Mwt Mawina that provided a crystal clear example of why the revolutionary work and struggle is important in our life and for whom it will benefit for generations to come. We respect the life work and unfettered commitment shared with us and the world by Mwt Mawina.
In the interest of the many sharings that will pay tribute and homage to our great warrioress and queen (in a non-feudal context of course) Mwt Mawina I extend an excerpt of a spoken word piece I penned in 1983 after ALD in DC:
Mapindusi Nii Sasa
The Revolution is Now
The revolution is living,
You need to keep on giving...
...We need to stop imitating...
And go far beyond all the hating...
Our lives need to be more than false acting
So we evolve and stop reacting...
...We need to build stronger families
So we may be a nation more at ease...
We have divine works and maatikal truths,
That we need to share and teach to our youths....
Mapindusi Nii Sasa
The Revolution is Now
May our memories of Mwt "Sis" Mawina's work and commitment for the victorious struggle of Afraka and its people be remembered for generations upon generations as a beacon of light, revolutionary consciousness and compassionate work that we respect for its' restoration of truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance and harmony as Ma'at! May Mwt "Sis" Mawina's work and life struggles continue to be an integral part of the interwoven threads of our people's legacy for positive change and revolutionary action!!! Aluta Continua
Originally published in AAWRU RAW QM Mawina Sowa Tribute publications- All Rights Reserved 2007.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Excerpts of Autumn 2004 Statement to Ghana Trade Expo
Excerpts of International Statement to Ghana Trade Expo-Atlanta, Georgia September 2004
Hotep (Peace) to All Initiators, Planners, Practitioners & Business Participants of the Ghana Expo 2004:
We have reached a zenith in our global development as Afrakan people that requires we reclaim a productive fusion of our ancient, traditional and contemporary socio-kultural and socio-economical perspectives and programmes for the benefit of the larger populace of Afrakans—at home and abroad…
Our indigenosity to Afraka as the Diasporic descendants of those who survived the centuries of atrocities imposed against Afrakans, makes it imperative that we speak on behalf of all of the innocent ancestors whose lives were lost before, during and after the forced migration from continental Afraka to the western hemisphere and abroad. We are descendants of sovereign nations in exile and we need our land and resources to rebuild our nations. “When you take away a people’s land, you take away their nation. You take away their birthright. You might as well take away a woman’s womb and tell her, ‘Go ahead and have some more children.’ It’s impossible. No land, no nation.” —From Who Betrayed the World African Revolution by Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1995) Something must be done to rectify this situation as there tends to be no mention of what Afrakan people have genuinely been through that serve as a foundation of our current socio-economic and psycho-kultural imbalances.
At present, Afrakan nation states need to consider resolving internal family issues amongst the Afrakans within the continent of Afraka and the Afrakans within the Diaspora—BEFORE they invite other nations and rayces to reap and harvest the fruits and resources of our ancestral continental homeland. This needs to be explored and clearly defined in order to minimize the common limitations and lack of access to the socio-economic benefits of the natural resources of Afraka and Afrakans who were exploited during the Arabian—Afrakan and European-Afrakan-American tri-contintental TransAtlantic enslavement experiences and slave economic systems. Essentially, we need to address our familial splits and unresolved issues FIRST before we open the doors of opportunities to everyone else. There will be no HOTEP (peace) without MAAT—truth, order, reciprocity, balance and divine innerstanding. There will not be any genuine peace amongst Afrakans at home or abroad until our internal family imbalances are positively addressed and productively resolved.
Since Afrakans were forced from our continental homes we need constructive and free access to the resources necessary for the rebuilding of our communities, nations and civilization. Since we were torn unethically and unjustly from our social, economic, cultural and spiritual environments and our ancestors never had a chance to return home to reclaim what is rightfully theirs—we as their descendants have a right to reclaim the land of our ancestors in Afraka. We have the right to open access of our ancestral lands that are currently being exploited and sold primarily to the highest bidders without any recourse or input from the genuine heirs of most of these properties. We are divinely and huemanely entitled to reclaim our ancestral national throne.
Until the land, resources and access issues are MAATIKALLY and adequately addressed amongst Afrakans globally—until MAAT is restored for those ancestors and their descendants who experienced and are still experiencing that suffering—Afraka will not be free because our ancestors will not rest.
We need to look at what was the purpose of this great tragic atrocity as the “MAANGAMIZI” ~a great disaster or catastrophe perpetuated towards a person or a people deliberately for planned destruction—for the injustices and enslavement experiences of Afrakans were more than a “MAAFA”~a great or natural disaster (Mfundishi :2006). We need to remember the millions of Afrakans whose lives were sacrificed during those imbalanced and unmaatikal (unjust) times of the Afrakan enslavement and holocaust experiences. Is it in vain that so many families died or were torn apart or nations usurped and leaders exiled? There must be a greater purpose to those sacrifices. It must be that a purpose is beginning to unfold as Afrakans within the Diaspora need to work with Afrakans at home—in MAAT and not exploitatively—for the re-unification, re-birth and re-civilization of a proactive, internationally sound and harmonious Afraka.
It appears that our current nation states in Afraka are building and supporting economic trade and social developments based on failing European or western standards and constructs that are beneficial for only a few and not for the whole village. It is reminiscent of the paramount chiefs inviting foreigners to come and take the loaves that they want as long as some crumbs are left for a chosen few to exploit and benefit from—even at the loss of body, mind, spirit and soul of the many.
…We need to have land and its’ natural resources—debt free—to restore a semblance of genuine global economic stability—especially amongst the millions of Afrakans within the Americas, the Caribbean nation states and elsewhere with unaddressed living and survival issues. We have some serious house cleaning to do before we discuss, implement and explore what Afrakan nation states project they will or will not do regarding the reapportioning of land or importation/exportation of resources within the continent which genuinely belongs to Afrakans at home & ABROAD. We need to erase the historical divisiveness perpetuated amongst Afrakans by Afrakans, Arabs, Europeans, Americans and others during our collective falling away from MAAT.
Afrakans lost civil and human right codes of conduct during the historic exile and migrations, and this led to us moving into barbarism and the human slave trade historically engaged in and benefited by Afrakans—especially at home. Every fort on the shores of Afraka is a symbol and reminder of the hydrocaust of chattel slavery. The landlessness of Afrakans within the Diaspora should not exist. Especially, as there are many non-Afrakans buying and owning millions of acres of land being sold to them by the present caretakers and misguided stewards of our ancestral inheritances. This must stop. As we represent sovereign nations in exile, our Afrakan ancestors will not rest until we establish: “Sovereignty of every African mind…state…soul…land & natural resource…Sovereignty that shall free everything we call our own from continuous looting and exploitation by the mighty and powerful well into the 21st century and beyond.” From Resolution of the African Civil Rights Movement by Godfrey Binaisa (Former President of Uganda) of ACRM & The Schiller Institute (2001)
The congenitally inhumane and uncivil are unable to genuinely support, initiate or maintain civil and human rights amongst Afrakans—or even within the global community. Greed coupled with gun-god bomb solutions have led to serious indoctrination experiences that may terminate the effectiveness of our international trade and economic agreements.
We need our Afrakan continental and Diasporic families and caretakers of our homeland to know that we give tua ankhs (living thanks) for them coming to the west to reconnect with the descendants of our ancestral homeland. We need:
1. Restitution for the wrongs committed against our ancestors that have lasting effects in the 21st century;
2. Reparations and access to our legally inherited royal throne and resources for our nation and civilization reconstruction efforts;
3. Repatriation opportunities for Diasporic Afrakans who desire to return to our ancestral homelands; and
4. The Restoration of MAAT and Maatikal compensation for all the hueman and civil rights violations experienced by our Afrakan ancestors and descendents—especially during the Maangamizi of the TransAtlantic enslavement experience
Smai Tawi represents the oldest historical terminology or phrase for PanAfricanism. According to the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke:
“I define Pan-Africanism as any effort on the part of African people to reclaim any portion of Africa that has been taken away, mutilated, misunderstood, or misinterpreted by a non-African to the detriment of Africa. Therefore, my definition goes beyond the word, “Pan”, which means “all”. When I look back at the historical role and the historical manifestations of Pan Africanism, I deal with the first organized society in the Nile Valley, when the people of the South and the people of the North (the Upper and the Lower Nile) came together to roam a country now known to the world as Egypt…The unification of the Upper Nile and the Lower Nile was an act of Pan-Africanism, putting a portion of Africa together for the whole of Africa to be together.”—From Who Betrayed the African World Revolution (1995)
Smai Tawi represents the oldest indigenous Afrakan Nubian Kushianu Khamitik Heritage (ANKKH) unified nation. Smai Tawi is a concept of spiritual, cultural, social and philosophical unity that transcends politics. Smai Tawi means divine unity on multiple levels of complementariness and correspondence.
This international message is being shared on behalf of the many Afrakan ancestors, elders, contemporaries and the unborn who desire the prostablishment of the hueman, universal and spiritual rights of our people—who are unable to attend this historic Afrakan continental and Diasporic session of unity.
In MAAT (truth, order, reciprocity, balance & harmony), Djhty (divine thought and wisdom)—
We extend Ankh, Udja em Seneb to All (Life, Strength and Wellness)—09.18.04
Note: A collective of scribes/writers of Per Ankh em Smai Tawi, Smai Tawi Ankh Ascension Renaissance & other ANKKH temple initiates shared in the composition of this statement with approved editing and rasynthesis by MwtDrChenziRa.
Hotep (Peace) to All Initiators, Planners, Practitioners & Business Participants of the Ghana Expo 2004:
We have reached a zenith in our global development as Afrakan people that requires we reclaim a productive fusion of our ancient, traditional and contemporary socio-kultural and socio-economical perspectives and programmes for the benefit of the larger populace of Afrakans—at home and abroad…
Our indigenosity to Afraka as the Diasporic descendants of those who survived the centuries of atrocities imposed against Afrakans, makes it imperative that we speak on behalf of all of the innocent ancestors whose lives were lost before, during and after the forced migration from continental Afraka to the western hemisphere and abroad. We are descendants of sovereign nations in exile and we need our land and resources to rebuild our nations. “When you take away a people’s land, you take away their nation. You take away their birthright. You might as well take away a woman’s womb and tell her, ‘Go ahead and have some more children.’ It’s impossible. No land, no nation.” —From Who Betrayed the World African Revolution by Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1995) Something must be done to rectify this situation as there tends to be no mention of what Afrakan people have genuinely been through that serve as a foundation of our current socio-economic and psycho-kultural imbalances.
At present, Afrakan nation states need to consider resolving internal family issues amongst the Afrakans within the continent of Afraka and the Afrakans within the Diaspora—BEFORE they invite other nations and rayces to reap and harvest the fruits and resources of our ancestral continental homeland. This needs to be explored and clearly defined in order to minimize the common limitations and lack of access to the socio-economic benefits of the natural resources of Afraka and Afrakans who were exploited during the Arabian—Afrakan and European-Afrakan-American tri-contintental TransAtlantic enslavement experiences and slave economic systems. Essentially, we need to address our familial splits and unresolved issues FIRST before we open the doors of opportunities to everyone else. There will be no HOTEP (peace) without MAAT—truth, order, reciprocity, balance and divine innerstanding. There will not be any genuine peace amongst Afrakans at home or abroad until our internal family imbalances are positively addressed and productively resolved.
Since Afrakans were forced from our continental homes we need constructive and free access to the resources necessary for the rebuilding of our communities, nations and civilization. Since we were torn unethically and unjustly from our social, economic, cultural and spiritual environments and our ancestors never had a chance to return home to reclaim what is rightfully theirs—we as their descendants have a right to reclaim the land of our ancestors in Afraka. We have the right to open access of our ancestral lands that are currently being exploited and sold primarily to the highest bidders without any recourse or input from the genuine heirs of most of these properties. We are divinely and huemanely entitled to reclaim our ancestral national throne.
Until the land, resources and access issues are MAATIKALLY and adequately addressed amongst Afrakans globally—until MAAT is restored for those ancestors and their descendants who experienced and are still experiencing that suffering—Afraka will not be free because our ancestors will not rest.
We need to look at what was the purpose of this great tragic atrocity as the “MAANGAMIZI” ~a great disaster or catastrophe perpetuated towards a person or a people deliberately for planned destruction—for the injustices and enslavement experiences of Afrakans were more than a “MAAFA”~a great or natural disaster (Mfundishi :2006). We need to remember the millions of Afrakans whose lives were sacrificed during those imbalanced and unmaatikal (unjust) times of the Afrakan enslavement and holocaust experiences. Is it in vain that so many families died or were torn apart or nations usurped and leaders exiled? There must be a greater purpose to those sacrifices. It must be that a purpose is beginning to unfold as Afrakans within the Diaspora need to work with Afrakans at home—in MAAT and not exploitatively—for the re-unification, re-birth and re-civilization of a proactive, internationally sound and harmonious Afraka.
It appears that our current nation states in Afraka are building and supporting economic trade and social developments based on failing European or western standards and constructs that are beneficial for only a few and not for the whole village. It is reminiscent of the paramount chiefs inviting foreigners to come and take the loaves that they want as long as some crumbs are left for a chosen few to exploit and benefit from—even at the loss of body, mind, spirit and soul of the many.
…We need to have land and its’ natural resources—debt free—to restore a semblance of genuine global economic stability—especially amongst the millions of Afrakans within the Americas, the Caribbean nation states and elsewhere with unaddressed living and survival issues. We have some serious house cleaning to do before we discuss, implement and explore what Afrakan nation states project they will or will not do regarding the reapportioning of land or importation/exportation of resources within the continent which genuinely belongs to Afrakans at home & ABROAD. We need to erase the historical divisiveness perpetuated amongst Afrakans by Afrakans, Arabs, Europeans, Americans and others during our collective falling away from MAAT.
Afrakans lost civil and human right codes of conduct during the historic exile and migrations, and this led to us moving into barbarism and the human slave trade historically engaged in and benefited by Afrakans—especially at home. Every fort on the shores of Afraka is a symbol and reminder of the hydrocaust of chattel slavery. The landlessness of Afrakans within the Diaspora should not exist. Especially, as there are many non-Afrakans buying and owning millions of acres of land being sold to them by the present caretakers and misguided stewards of our ancestral inheritances. This must stop. As we represent sovereign nations in exile, our Afrakan ancestors will not rest until we establish: “Sovereignty of every African mind…state…soul…land & natural resource…Sovereignty that shall free everything we call our own from continuous looting and exploitation by the mighty and powerful well into the 21st century and beyond.” From Resolution of the African Civil Rights Movement by Godfrey Binaisa (Former President of Uganda) of ACRM & The Schiller Institute (2001)
The congenitally inhumane and uncivil are unable to genuinely support, initiate or maintain civil and human rights amongst Afrakans—or even within the global community. Greed coupled with gun-god bomb solutions have led to serious indoctrination experiences that may terminate the effectiveness of our international trade and economic agreements.
We need our Afrakan continental and Diasporic families and caretakers of our homeland to know that we give tua ankhs (living thanks) for them coming to the west to reconnect with the descendants of our ancestral homeland. We need:
1. Restitution for the wrongs committed against our ancestors that have lasting effects in the 21st century;
2. Reparations and access to our legally inherited royal throne and resources for our nation and civilization reconstruction efforts;
3. Repatriation opportunities for Diasporic Afrakans who desire to return to our ancestral homelands; and
4. The Restoration of MAAT and Maatikal compensation for all the hueman and civil rights violations experienced by our Afrakan ancestors and descendents—especially during the Maangamizi of the TransAtlantic enslavement experience
Smai Tawi represents the oldest historical terminology or phrase for PanAfricanism. According to the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke:
“I define Pan-Africanism as any effort on the part of African people to reclaim any portion of Africa that has been taken away, mutilated, misunderstood, or misinterpreted by a non-African to the detriment of Africa. Therefore, my definition goes beyond the word, “Pan”, which means “all”. When I look back at the historical role and the historical manifestations of Pan Africanism, I deal with the first organized society in the Nile Valley, when the people of the South and the people of the North (the Upper and the Lower Nile) came together to roam a country now known to the world as Egypt…The unification of the Upper Nile and the Lower Nile was an act of Pan-Africanism, putting a portion of Africa together for the whole of Africa to be together.”—From Who Betrayed the African World Revolution (1995)
Smai Tawi represents the oldest indigenous Afrakan Nubian Kushianu Khamitik Heritage (ANKKH) unified nation. Smai Tawi is a concept of spiritual, cultural, social and philosophical unity that transcends politics. Smai Tawi means divine unity on multiple levels of complementariness and correspondence.
This international message is being shared on behalf of the many Afrakan ancestors, elders, contemporaries and the unborn who desire the prostablishment of the hueman, universal and spiritual rights of our people—who are unable to attend this historic Afrakan continental and Diasporic session of unity.
In MAAT (truth, order, reciprocity, balance & harmony), Djhty (divine thought and wisdom)—
We extend Ankh, Udja em Seneb to All (Life, Strength and Wellness)—09.18.04
Note: A collective of scribes/writers of Per Ankh em Smai Tawi, Smai Tawi Ankh Ascension Renaissance & other ANKKH temple initiates shared in the composition of this statement with approved editing and rasynthesis by MwtDrChenziRa.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Wellness for Women: A Concise Note
Holistic Health Keys For Women & Liberation
By ChenziRa D. Kahina, MS, NHD, PhD
A Concise Note shared during African Liberation Month-May 2010
Holistic health and wellness for women are central to the work, vision, mission and purpose of any family, village, community and nation. Holistic retreat intensives for women support our ability to realign, restore, resurrect and harmonize our femininity through multiple healing traditions, practices and natural retreat activities that may be integrated into one’s life on a daily basis. Holistic Health for Indigenous Afrakan women includes a basic respect for sacred principles of AST (Sacred Nurturing & Compassionate Mother Principles) within our lives. AST principles represent positive feminine elements of nurturing, mothering, sacred intention, proactive natural ascension, respectful maternal and sister relationships, loyalty and energetic healing to self, family, community and nation. As an “ankh” is a “key of life”, let’s explore our holistic wellness ankhs!
Holistic Health Keys women are encouraged to embrace in our lives are:
•Assess and Know Our Body—Learn the elements of air, fire, earth and water “AFEW”
•Engage in womb nurturing and self-healing practices (“Our wombs are our wombniverse!)
•Think positive thoughts and celebrate life
•Strengthen our spiritual practices for sacred ascension (Women are sacred spiritual beings!)
•Eat wholesome foods with a positive attitude (Just leave the inorganic junk foods alone!)
•Exercise on a regular basis (Minimum 30 minutes daily!)
•Drink water to keep our body hydrated (Minimum 6-8oz glasses daily)
•Visit and celebrate nature as often as possible (When was your last seabath or nature walk?)
•Nurture positive relations with our self, life partners, family and community
•Work with a certified health care practitioner that KNOWS and LIVES in alignment with practices that support women’s wellness
•Embrace “each one teach one as each one heals one” to LIVE UP©!
For more information, email nuwomanrising@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/perankh and share a message or request!
By ChenziRa D. Kahina, MS, NHD, PhD
A Concise Note shared during African Liberation Month-May 2010
Holistic health and wellness for women are central to the work, vision, mission and purpose of any family, village, community and nation. Holistic retreat intensives for women support our ability to realign, restore, resurrect and harmonize our femininity through multiple healing traditions, practices and natural retreat activities that may be integrated into one’s life on a daily basis. Holistic Health for Indigenous Afrakan women includes a basic respect for sacred principles of AST (Sacred Nurturing & Compassionate Mother Principles) within our lives. AST principles represent positive feminine elements of nurturing, mothering, sacred intention, proactive natural ascension, respectful maternal and sister relationships, loyalty and energetic healing to self, family, community and nation. As an “ankh” is a “key of life”, let’s explore our holistic wellness ankhs!
Holistic Health Keys women are encouraged to embrace in our lives are:
•Assess and Know Our Body—Learn the elements of air, fire, earth and water “AFEW”
•Engage in womb nurturing and self-healing practices (“Our wombs are our wombniverse!)
•Think positive thoughts and celebrate life
•Strengthen our spiritual practices for sacred ascension (Women are sacred spiritual beings!)
•Eat wholesome foods with a positive attitude (Just leave the inorganic junk foods alone!)
•Exercise on a regular basis (Minimum 30 minutes daily!)
•Drink water to keep our body hydrated (Minimum 6-8oz glasses daily)
•Visit and celebrate nature as often as possible (When was your last seabath or nature walk?)
•Nurture positive relations with our self, life partners, family and community
•Work with a certified health care practitioner that KNOWS and LIVES in alignment with practices that support women’s wellness
•Embrace “each one teach one as each one heals one” to LIVE UP©!
For more information, email nuwomanrising@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/perankh and share a message or request!
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