The Impact of European Colonization on Sub-Saharan Africa and its People

Learning Team 3

Imperialism is the influence over an area by a foreign power, often involving some form of dominance. Imperialism was imposed by the Europeans as they colonized Sub-Saharan Africa. For hundreds of years the Europeans traded gold and salt with huge trading empires that had developed in Africa. For hundreds of years they continued trading but in the late 1800s Europeans began to colonize Africa. They saw their colonies as a direct source to the goods they had been trading for decades and as a way to grow their empires.

By 1914 all of the Sahel had been colonized by the Europeans, they set boundaries that divided ethnic groups creating conflict between different groups which only made the European rule, stronger. The European colonization diminished African culture sufficiently but some Africans still benefited from the education the Europeans brought with them. Soon some educated Africans demanded a role in government and…

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Top Ten Highlights of African Culture

Learning Team 3

By Adrianne Owings & Braylon Smith

1.    African Visual Art

African art often expresses traditional religious beliefs. Some of the most popular forms of this visual art created by the Africans includes the ceremonial masks and wooden figures by the Dogon people who live in Mali. Before the European colonialism in the 1800s, the African communities created art expressing their worldviews that could be functional or decorative. Unlike the Europeans, they thought that art was did not only provide a purpose for philosophical inquiry, contemplation, or other narrative reasons. The rational logic and naturalism in Western art was rarely found in African art (with the exception of Yoruba Ife Terracotta heads in the 12^th and 13^th centuries). Creativity was exercised through the applied and decorative arts, like jewelry and furniture. Costumes and masks were also a common form of visual art. They usually were used for spiritual rituals…

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Twin Flames, Love and Sacred Sexual Union

Judith Kusel

Your soul is pure energy, and in its greater whole, is made up of 12 equal flames or energy shards, and thus vibrates then at that frequency.  In your soul body, you are pure energy and vibrate at your soul frequency and vibration, which then is in tune with your soul blueprint.

At this moment in time we are given a window opportunity to raise our own frequencies and vibrations, to become more in tune with the cosmic pulse.  Essentially this means, that frequency and vibration on which you’re whole SOUL GROUP vibrates cosmically and thus the higher dimensional states of Being.  Your soul group then belongs to a greater CLUSTER of soul groups, and these then form their own energy pool for a certain life expression, which they in turn, reflect back to the Divine Source.

There is lot hype, as said before, around Twin flames and re-union, and…

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Taurus – The Bull – April 21 to May 20

Introduction to Goddess-Inspired Astrology

Olokun – The Yoruban Goddess of the Deep Dark Sea

The Path of an Initiate…

The knowledge and proficiency conferred by initiation cannot be obtained in any other manner, except in some far distant future, after many incarnations, by quite different means and in quite a different form. The initiate undergoes experiences which would otherwise come to him/her much later, under quite different circumstances.
The secrets of existence are only accessible to an extent corresponding to man’s own degree of maturity. For this reason alone the path to the higher stages of knowledge and power is beset with obstacles. A firearm should not be used until sufficient experience has been gained to avoid disaster, caused by its use.

A person initiated today without further ado would lack the experience which he will gain during his future incarnations before he/she can attain to higher knowledge in the normal course of his development. At the portal of initiation, therefore, this experience must be supplied in some other way. Thus the first instructions given to the candidate for
initiation serve as a substitute for these future experiences. These are the so-called trials, which he/she has to undergo, and which constitute a normal course of inner development resulting from due application to prescribe exercises….

“After more than 17yrs of my Initiation, I am still at School and willing to Learn as an Initiate of The Ancient Afrikan Indigenous Healing and Spirituality…”

The Journey of the Healer….

Indigenous Afrikan Healers by choice of Spirits. As a rule these are the people that in their pubescence age were laid by the so-called Shamanic illness — they were subjected to visions and hallucinations, their bearing was becoming queer and chaotic, they sometimes had seizures close to epileptic ones. In his/her visions such individual was or is visited by Ancient spirits that suggested that he/she should become a Shaman/Healer and they would be his/her Spirit guides. ” the candidate was or is often trying to refuse from proposed mission since Shamanic activity was or is n extremely considered to be a hard one, and full of stigma and discrimination. In this case Spirits threatened that they would Kill the individual, and his/her illness was or is aggravating. If the individual selected by Spirits accepted the Offer/ Calling of becoming a Shaman, he/she was cured but he/she preserved his/her skills of Shamanic trance and Healing..

Following this the Neophyte Shaman would or started mastering his/her “Professional” Skills under supervision of the Ally Spirit and a more experienced Shaman -Guru who would take or took him/her for an apprentice….. This is the Beginning of Re-incarnation..

 

Rules For Ifa Divination

brotherpeacemaker

Orthodox perspectives of ancient African spirituality say that in order for people to communicate with the Orisa Baba Orunmila, one must be initiated to Ifa. Traditionally speaking this is very important in order to gain the ability to perform divination or readings for others. For many people, the spiritual readings consist of little more than fortune telling. People will try to get a reading to determine who they should marry or where they should live or what kind of car they should buy. Marry the person who best reflects your goals in life. Live where you can afford and is most convenient to your lifestyle. Buy a car you can afford. No one needs divination for such rudimentary questions. And Orunmila, assistant to the Supreme Being Olodumare, doesn’t have time to spoon feed people answers for things that really don’t matter.

The objective of any true reading from Orunmila is…

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Orisa Pots

brotherpeacemaker

Orisas are spiritual forces of nature. Orisas are not our personal possessions. Orisas are to be shared with each and every person who seeks them out. Too often the people who have been fortunate enough to have the funds to receive their Orisa pots keep them hidden away in a locked or private shrine room that’s off limits to anyone else. There is a philosophy that goes like, “I got mine…you need to pay your own money and get your own.” This selfish, narcissistic thought process is epidemic in the Orisa communities in the western cultures. Individualism and separatism is not an inherently Orisa concept. Exclusivity is a principle developed and nurtured through human ego and the short sighted need to establish dominance over others.

An Orisa pot is not a vessel that holds some supernatural entity. Orisas don’t live in these pots. Remember, Orisas are forces of nature. Nature…

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