Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Marimba Ani argues that the very concept of "God" most of us inherited is European, not African — and this deep explainer unpacks exactly why, then carries the study forward into two books.
Drawn from her interview "Your Concept of God and Religion Is European," this film lays out her full argument step by step — the African divine as force rather than person, cyclical versus linear time, ancestor communion mistaken for "worship," and the political mechanism by which a people's religion was used against them. It then extends into AWOMEN: A Serious Look at Religion (how religion was constructed) and The Only Truth (the return to Change and Balance).
⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 Your Concept of God Is European
00:05 Dr. Marimba Ani: The Deep Explanation
24:50 Book One — AWOMEN: How Religion Was Constructed
25:34 AWOMEN: 20 Truths
37:58 Book Two — The Only Truth Returns
38:49 The Only Truth: 20 Revelations
52:35 Closing: Let the Circle Be Unbroken
🔎 IN THIS FILM
• Why Dr. Ani refuses to call the orishas "gods" — force vs. a person-God
• Cyclical vs. linear time, and what European anthropologists completely misread
• Ancestor communion, libation, and reciprocity — not "ancestor worship"
• The step-by-step political mechanism: demean a people, then convert them
• The Maafa — her name for the catastrophe, and how the church became a hiding place
• The road back: "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"
📖 ABOUT DR. MARIMBA ANI
Born Dona Richards — SNCC organizer, anthropologist at Hunter College, author of Yurugu. She coined the terms "Maafa" (the great disaster of the African holocaust) and "asili" (the cultural seed).
Books mentioned:
- AWOMEN: A Serious Look at Religion — Rondie Pottinger
- The Only Truth: All Equals Change and Balance — Rondie Pottinger
📺 Full film on Transatlantic Productions
🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/@transatlantic
🌐 tapvideo.com
▶ THE NEW BLACK MIND playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_vW3LzhTs2JCtfY0TSqapNl479cNE83
#ANewBlackMind #MarimbaAni #AfricanSpirituality #Maafa #Yurugu
Dr. Marimba Ani argues that the very concept of "God" most of us inherited is European, not African — and this deep explainer unpacks exactly why, then carries the study forward into two books.
Drawn from her interview "Your Concept of God and Religion Is European," this film lays out her full argument step by step — the African divine as force rather than person, cyclical versus linear time, ancestor communion mistaken for "worship," and the political mechanism by which a people's religion was used against them. It then extends into AWOMEN: A Serious Look at Religion (how religion was constructed) and The Only Truth (the return to Change and Balance).
⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 Your Concept of God Is European
00:05 Dr. Marimba Ani: The Deep Explanation
24:50 Book One — AWOMEN: How Religion Was Constructed
25:34 AWOMEN: 20 Truths
37:58 Book Two — The Only Truth Returns
38:49 The Only Truth: 20 Revelations
52:35 Closing: Let the Circle Be Unbroken
🔎 IN THIS FILM
• Why Dr. Ani refuses to call the orishas "gods" — force vs. a person-God
• Cyclical vs. linear time, and what European anthropologists completely misread
• Ancestor communion, libation, and reciprocity — not "ancestor worship"
• The step-by-step political mechanism: demean a people, then convert them
• The Maafa — her name for the catastrophe, and how the church became a hiding place
• The road back: "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"
📖 ABOUT DR. MARIMBA ANI
Born Dona Richards — SNCC organizer, anthropologist at Hunter College, author of Yurugu. She coined the terms "Maafa" (the great disaster of the African holocaust) and "asili" (the cultural seed).
Books mentioned:
- AWOMEN: A Serious Look at Religion — Rondie Pottinger
- The Only Truth: All Equals Change and Balance — Rondie Pottinger
📺 Full film on Transatlantic Productions
🔔 Subscribe: youtube.com/@transatlantic
🌐 tapvideo.com
▶ THE NEW BLACK MIND playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_vW3LzhTs2JCtfY0TSqapNl479cNE83
#ANewBlackMind #MarimbaAni #AfricanSpirituality #Maafa #Yurugu
