Kris Leliel

Ayeeee

How can you loan to a nation something that clearly belongs to it? 🤔

What is the sword doing in "France's Army museum" in the first place?

They are giving back only a small portion of what they have from those 2 countries alone. Imagine how many other artifacts they have from all the French speaking places in Africa.

Imagine how many other stolen artifacts France has from all those countries... 🤔

Spain and many countries in South America definitely need to start doing something too if they haven't already .

Read the story from the top image below

Excerpt from ‘Gèlèdé: A Yoruba masquerade’.

Nigerian Brides with their Bridesmaids 🤞🏾🇳🇬

African Indigenous Wisdom- Balance Between The Light and Dark With Us

The Christians have told us that God created the soul, but our belief in Africa is a little different from this. We believe that the soul is in fact an integral part of God and that our souls came into being when God created himself. We exist because God exists, and our souls are fragments of this Universal self.

There are two “souls” in a human being, the ena and the moya. The moya we depict as a globe or sphere of perfect transparency, which in its disembodied form may fly or float through the air. We say that females souls have transparent wings, like those of a mosquito, while males float, but without wings. Inside each sphere, male or female, are two worm-like creatures, perfectly visible; one is blue in color and the other red; they move around and dance with each other and struggle with each other and are never quiet. We say that these worm-like creatures represent the good and the evil inside a person. The red worm symbolizes all the bad things in a man or a woman - a warped sense of morality, low cunning, dishonesty, cruelty, pride, cowardice, perversity. The blue worm stands for all the good in a person - morality, charity, compassion, selflessness, courage, honesty.

The soul is thus always in balance between good and evil, life and death. A combination of good and evil, equally balanced, is essential. For all souls that exists, neither perfect goodness nor badness can prevail or the soul will find a premature demise. It would be out of balance. That is why some people who are very good die prematurely; the contest is already over, the worms have settled the conflict. In other cases the worms quarrel ceaselessly, and for example if the red worm dominates, the person can develop an evil disposition and begin to do nasty things, abuse people, even steal or murder. If the blue worm is victorious, the person expresses nothing but virtue and becomes almost too good to live on this Earth. This is the lore of the moya.

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa- Zulu Shaman

Image Credit-Where Light and Dark Meet by Jonas Jodicke

“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage.”

There are AT LEAST 100,000 AFRICANS in the bottom of atlantic oceans. These were not Americans or brazillians or Jamaicans etc, these were Yoruba people, Fulani, Igbos, Ashanti, AKan, Mandinka men and women who were thrown overboard by european slave traders

Aziri:  Aziri is the goddess of wealth and possessions, watching over marketplaces and business transactions. She distributes her material blessings and opportunities specifically to women, in an effort to maintain balance and avoid patriarchal reign and power. She is also seen as a goddess of love, protecting women from harmful pairings and from men who wish to marry for material gain. Thieves and swindlers, particularly those who abuse women, are subject to Aziri’s great wrath. - The Goddess Guide, Brandi Auset

Oxumaré, painting by Nelson Boeira Faedrich

Zanzibar sunset by Sarah Waiswa

Omo Valley Ethiopia

Konso - Ethiopia (by Phil Norton)  

i feel stupid af for not even having thought about googling this sooner 😭

“Oshun (known as Ochún or Oxúm in Latin America) also spelled Ọṣun, is an orisha, a spirit, a deity, or a goddess that reflects one of the manifestations of God in the Ifá and Yoruba religions. She is one of the most popular and venerated orishas. Oshun is the deity of the river and fresh water, luxury and pleasure, sexuality and fertility, and beauty and love.[1][2] She is connected to destiny and divination.[3]

During the life of the mortal Oshun, she served as queen consort to King Shango of Oyo. Following her posthumous deification, she was admitted to the Yoruba pantheon as an aspect of a primordial divinity of the same name.

She is the patron saint of the Osun River in Nigeria, which bears her name. The river has its source in Ekiti State, in the west of Nigeria, and passes through the city of Oshogbo, where Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, the principal sanctuary of the deity, is located…” - Wiki