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Those of us that carry the legacy, the history, the philosophical sacred thought that has as its origin the knowledge carried in the body of ethnic groups primary of West and Central Africa are the continuum of understanding the vibrancy of the ancestral soul’s whole energy manifests in our lives, of those of us actualized in what we understand as life.
It is relatively recent that many of us have felt comfortable, protected as scholars and intellectuals centering our living realities in the understanding of the sacred souls we reflect and honor in our remembrances. As an educator, African Diaspora cultural historian and institution creator, social justice, and racial equity activist I understood that academia generally regards scholarship from the “outside” looking in speaking from an “objective” voice as the most scholarly and authentic manner of presenting the esoteric information of spirit and our souls.
Those of us that carry the legacy, the history, the philosophical sacred thought that has as its origin the knowledge carried in the body of ethnic groups primary of West and Central Africa are the continuum of understanding the vibrancy of the ancestral soul’s whole energy manifests in our lives, of those of us actualized in what we understand as life.
It is relatively recent that many of us have felt comfortable, protected as scholars and intellectuals centering our living realities in the understanding of the sacred souls we reflect and honor in our remembrances. As an educator, African Diaspora cultural historian and institution creator, social justice, and racial equity activist I understood that academia generally regards scholarship from the “outside” looking in speaking from an “objective” voice as the most scholarly and authentic manner of presenting the esoteric information of spirit and our souls.
