Afrikan Sistahs seeks to assist in healing the
Black woman worldwide, using Afrikan Tradition Spirituality, specifically
the Yoruba culture originating from West Afrika.. We intend to assist our
people to return to the original ways of our Aral mothers in teaching
Black women how to be tender with themselves and each other.
I was inspired in part, by the words of Audre
Lorde, "and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard, nor
welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to
speak remembering we were never meant to survive."
Black women were brought to the new world to
be used as slaves and to breed more slaves. The slave masters thought we
would never survive the horrific, immeasurable odds against us.
Nevertheless, survive is what we did and the Black woman in the Diaspora
has become the backbone of the Diasporic Afrikan family. There is
something missing, however, and that is our ability to use our inherent
power as descendants of the Afrikan to heal ourselves as well as our power
to pull together as Sisters. The ability to have true Sisterhood was left
on the shores of our homeland. Unlike the religion of our ancestors,
Sisterhood did not survive the Middle Passage and the resulting
enslavement of our people.
In the villages of Afrika, women are respected
as Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Co-wives, Aunts and Daughters. Women pull
together for the survival of the family. The woman was actually the head
of the family and owners of the Marketplace. Women are appeased in
elaborate ceremonies by men to stave off bad luck. Women raise children
together, make money in the marketplace and have their own societies to
deal with the ills of the Afrikan community. This has been so from
creation. Women birthed other women and women later buried women.
It is now time for "daughters of the
yam" to learn to "draw up the powers from the deep like before," in the
words of Toni Cade Bambara from "The Salt Eaters." If we investigate the
ways of our forefathers, perhaps we can empower ourselves in their ways,
learn to heal ourselves, our families and communities. Using this
philosophy, we can even see a Black Woman in the White House.
May we all be blessed from the Heavens as we
go about our healing journey.
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"It is not inconsequential that the
market is a major setting of social and economic activity involving
primarily women. Trading is probably the most common profession among
women in Yoruba society. Indeed, the market is controlled by women;
it's administrative head, the Iyalode, holds a position on the King's
council of Chiefs. Women are economically independent, and through
trading they can acquire greater wealth and higher status than their
husbands. (Lloyd 1963:39;1974:38)..the women's realm, the place where
their collective social power is most consciously felt..the
Marketplace is thus a most appropriate setting...that seeks to gather
all segments of the society in order to pay homage to the special
power of women and to partake of their influence. ..The market is a
transient place, at once the domain of women...woman are considered
the "owners of the world" (oni l'oni aiye). They control the world;
they control the market. Indeed the Market is microcosm of the
world.."
From "Gelede: Art and Female Power Among The Yoruba" by Henry and
Margaret Drewal
Yoruba Anthem
English Translation
In unity let's stand
On behalf of our fatherland
To rebuild it
To reform it
For the betterment of all
Let all of us unite
To defend our motherland
For our progress
And for our children's
And for all posterity
Oduduwa is our spring
Wherever we may be
Let's be kinfolks
And remember
That home is home for us
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The BLACK race has struggled for existence and self-determination for
centuries sincethe era of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism. On a
global scale continents have been scarred by the cruel things that
humankind has done to each other, and Africa has largely been at the
receiving end of global relations. Nowhere else are these scars more
visible than on the African continent.
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