kwame was a divine ancestor

Francis Nwia Kwame Nkrumah

Born: 1909

Crossed over:1972

'It has often been said that Afrika is poor. What nonsense! It is not Afrika that is poor. It is the Afrikans who are impoverished by centuries of exploitation and domination'

'We are going to see that we create our own African personality and identity. We again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; for our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.'

'Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength, but as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.'

on release from detention after election's victory

MAY THE ANCESTORS BE PLEASED WITH HIS EFFORTS

WE POUR LIBATIONS GIVING THANKS

ancient keys to the secrets

"Know you

that in the pyramid I built

are the Keys

that shall show you

the Way into life.

YES, draw you a line from the great image I built, to the apex of the pyramid, built as a gateway. Draw you another opposite in the same angle and direction. Dig you and find that which I have hidden. There shall you find the underground entrance to the secrets hidden before you were men...."

DJEHUTY

POUR LIBATIONS

GIVE THANKS FOR OUR SURVIVAL

Ancestors Toussaint L'Overture & Frederick Douglas

“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.” Thomas Jefferson

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FATHER OF AITIJ (HAITI)

ANCESTOR
Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Overture
BORN: 1743
CROSSED OVER :1803

To his former OWNER/MASTER: "Gently, overseer. There is today a greater difference between me and you than there formerly was between you and me. Return to the plantation, be inflexible, but just; make the blacks work and so add to the prosperity of yourself and the administration."

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AMERICAN LIBERATOR

ANCESTOR Frederick Douglass
Born:1817
Crossed over:1895

“ We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field. Work, work, work, was scarcely more the order of the day than of the night. The longest days were too short for him, and the shortest nights too long for him. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort of beast-like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree. At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished. I sank down again, mourning over my wretched condition. I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear. My sufferings on this plantation seem now like a dream rather than a stern reality....”

Frederick Douglass

MAY THE ANCESTORS BE PLEASED WITH HIS EFFORTS

WE POUR LIBATIONS GIVING THANKS

FOR THE STRUGGLES OF OUR PREDECESSORS

ASHE

Ancestors Carlos Cooks & Mosiah Garvey

Pioneers of the struggle

Ancestor CARLOS A COOKS

Born 1913

Crossed over 1966

Passionately fascinated with the excellence of our African origin.Philosophically committed to the ideals of Marcus Garvey -African Nationalism and self-determination.

Dedicated to the assertion of our freedom, regardless of obstacles.

One Cause

One Goal

One Destiny

Ancestor Marcus Mosiah Aurelius Garvey, Jr.

Born 1887

Crossed over 1940

“You all know how the different West Indians despise each other, how the Jamaican despise the Barbadian and the Barbadian despise the Jamaican and all the other islands hate each other. The UNIA was founded in 1914 after my experience of travel in South America, in Central America, in all the West Indian islands and in Europe, seeing well the need for greater unity amongst the black people of the world."

“Therefore the American Negroes and the West Indian Negroes are one, and they are relics of the great African race which was brought into the Western world and kept here for 400 years. I told them in Harlem that it is my duty to reunite the Negroes of Africa, to make a great nation of black men..." Marcus Garvey

One Creator

One Hope

One Goal

one Destiny

pouring libations

We give thanks for the lives of these ancestors