Note: the content of the article below is actually identical to the introduction to the 60-page paper with the same name as this article. To download the paper as a…
"Bayi" is the word for "witchcraft" in the Akan language. "Obayifo"/"Abayifo" used in the current Akan language means "person who practices witchcraft". I say this because both words have roots…
Last month (November), my spiritual brother and friend in Ghana sent me this video on Dr. Nobles' thoughts. My friend cautioned me to take my time listening to the video,…
Even if anyone contests the claim that Anokye was and still is the greatest medicine man (shaman) the Akan have known, it is without doubt that he is the most…
Tawa, the Sun spirit of the Hopi People Robert Morning Sky & Anton Parks Anyone who is familiar with my books and other writings will be aware that I have…
A page from the book SaNhat, translated by Ayi Kwei Armah and Shemsw Bak So, after reading the works of Cheik Anta Diop (e.g. The African Origin of Civilization; Black…
Many of us know that in war, the victor takes the spoils. Those European powers that encroached upon, invaded or colonized other cultures around the world took their symbols and…
One big component of world culture, and certainly of African culture, in ancient times and in the present, is the sharing of wisdom through proverbs. Proverbs can be defined as…
Adinkra are the traditional symbols of the Akan people found in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Togo. There are hundreds of these symbols that span all kinds of concepts, from cosmology…
Alternatively, read article in PDF In my first book The Akan, Other Africans and the Sirius Star system, I posit that historical accounts from ancient writers such as Herodotus and…