Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Nous sommes nés anges



En quête d'une vision, on dirait qu'il y en a beaucoup ces temps-ci, je t'ai vue.
En fait j'ai vu ta forme, paisiblement et soigneusement couchée dans l'obscurité chaleureuse
Ta présence m'a détendu à mesure que je grimpais toujours plus profondément dans des hauteurs Encore jamais vues.
Dans des royaumes encore jamais imaginés.
Te rappelles-tu
Te rappelles-tu avoir parcouru cette route?
Planant au-dessus des pensées et des rêves des mortels.
Chuchotant le nom de la Lumière aussi fort que le tonnerre,
Sans forme comme l'océan large, frémissant et contrariant.
J'ai entendu la Mère m'appeler,
Le nom qu'elle m'a donné dans une prière silencieuse
Mais c'était le Frère qui se tint devant moi comme toi maintenant
Dans l'obscurité chaleureuse qui ne pouvait pas te dissimuler,
Le Frère qui se tenait devant moi, qui m'appelait vers l'endroit
Où est né le Père.
Mugissant notre nom dans un souffle, inaudible pour les hommes.
Et la raison pour laquelle j'écris ces mots dans la douce obscurité
Qui maintient ta forme, et la mienne, à l'abri du temps.
Il est temps, Soeur, temps de se lever et de prendre garde à la prière de la Mère.
Fais rayonner ta gloire.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Africa losing billions in tax evasion - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Africa losing billions in tax evasion - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Pushing Ahead

"From the universities must come men, ideas, knowledge, experience, technical skills, and the deep humane understanding vital to fruitful relations among nations. Without these, world order, for which We have so long strived, cannot be established. From the universities, too, must come that ability which is the most valuable attribute of civilized men everywhere: the ability to transcend narrow passions and to engage in honest conversation; for civilization is by nature 'the victory of persuasion over force.'"
H.I.M. Haile Sellassie I
 Forgive me for the noticeable absence lately.  I have been a bit reticent of late contending with a few issues on the home-front, including the passing of an Elder cousin, but we must grind on.  I will say however that much in my life as of late, and that of several close friends, has put things into greater perspective and led to greater understanding.  As it is with life, change is inevitable and the greatest proof of growth is understanding and accepting change for change sake, even as we mediate the many variables.

Friday, January 13, 2012

We Were Born Angels

https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/jah-courtney/we-were-born-angels/10150461997421010?notif_t=like
Jah Courtney


We Were Born Angels

On a vision quest, seems they are many these days, I saw you.
Well I saw your form, laying neatly undisturbed in the warm darkness.
Your presence calmed me as I climbed deeper up into heights
Before unseen by these eyes.  Into realms never imagined.
Do you remember?
 Do you remember traveling that road?
Soaring above the thoughts and dreams of mortal men.
Whispering the name of Light as loud as thunder,
Shapeless as the ocean is wide, vexing and trembling.
I heard Mother call to me,
The name She gave me in silent prayer.
But it was Brother who stood before me, as you lay
In the warm darkness which could not hide your form,
Brother who stood before me, calling me to the place
Where Father was born.
Bellowing our name in whisper, inaudible to men.
And the reason I pen these words in the sweet darkness
That steadies your form, and mine, hid from time.
It is time Sister, time to rise and heed Mother’s prayer.
Radiate your Glory.

Opening access to education and services in Sierra Leone

Opening access to education and services in Sierra Leone

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

“BAD FRIDAY: RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS” FLORIDA PREMIER

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Games Are For Players and Tricks Are For Kids

Court's Court and other Notables: Games Are For Players and Tricks Are For Kids: As I see it, the world of formulaic practices would have me Write a thousand lines on pages made of the most luxurious Antique papyrus wit...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Outkast ft. Cee-Lo, Big Rube, & Erykah Badu - Liberation

On Rastafari And Relationships: One Viewpoint

"It is not easy to identify readily the gender of a bird or what is inside a man’s heart." 
Ethiopia
"So many little things make a man love a woman in a big way."
Ghana


The following is an exert from a conversation/reasoning in a Facebook group.  The entire thread was much too long to copy here and the group is closed so no link is available.  But I wanted to post this to offer one view on romantic love within Rastafari because it seems a very important issue to many adherents, though one not often spoken of openly.  Please bear with me as I have stated, it picks up in the middle of the conversation.
Kwasi Abahu

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883

“The legacy of King Leopold very much lives on in the Congo. Here is a country which since colonial times probably experienced the worst bloodshed of any territory in Africa.”


Adam Hochschild 

Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots:

The task that is given to fulfill is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already.They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I don't know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else's wife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators and industrial, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the world. For these things, you have to keep watch on dis-interesting our savages from the richness that is plenty in their underground. To avoid that they get interested in it, and make you murderous competition and dream one day to overthrow you.

Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like "Happier are the poor because they will inherit the heaven" and, "It's very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God." You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic System and their war fetish-warfare protection-which they pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.

Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won't revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent's teachings. The children have to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul. You must singularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the schools, teach students to read and not to reason. There, dear patriots, are some of the principles that you must apply. You will find many other books, which will be given to you at the end of this conference. Evangelize the niggers so that they stay forever in submission to the white colonialists, so they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite every day-"Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them."

Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you in sign of recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit their villages. And make sure that niggers never become rich. Sing every day that it's impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the poor, to build flourishing business centers. Institute a confessional system, which allows you to be good detectives denouncing any black that has a different consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker. Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never present a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don't give him more than one cigarette. Never invite him for dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.

--- "The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian missionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 while working in the Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech in the Bible." - Dr Chiedozie Okoro...

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Forever Achieving Inspiration Through Humilty---Imani

"The trees that are growing are tomorrow's forest."Zambia


"The following day begins with a lot of hope."  Uganda, Congo

As these 7 days of the period of Kwanzaa come to rest once more, for another year, remember that it is in the living them daily that we fully achieve the whole of the love that we have been missing for far too long.  Some will say that Kwanzaa is not necessary to accomplish the unity of Africans in the West but any unity of spirit and principle is a good thing.  After all, when you really look into the 7 principles, you'll see that we have had them with us all along.  They have been forever encoded in our DNA from such time.