Extended Network Banner made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!Myspace Layouts + Myspace GraphicsMessage From Our Founder:Afrikan Sistahs"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable"~~~ Kenyan proverbAfrikan 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.Ase!May it be so!Princess Ademide AdinasseFounder, Afrikan SistahsA single bracelet does not jingle~~~ An Afrikan proverbBefore healing others, heal self, Afrikan proverb
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arketing and Shopping without BordersA Collective of International African WomenIn the history of our race the women were the masters of the marketplace. Today, more than ever the definition of marketplace is the arena of business.We can no longer be satisfied with being relegated to being a naive group of consumers. We are reclaiming our place in the marketplace. We are no longer going to stand still and be taken advantage of by any other race or, group that does not value our community nor, the money we spend to make others prosperous. To those that refuse to give back to our community, be forewarned: We are charting a new course, a re-direction of our economic power; and a new wave for our future way of being.Our economic agenda is to empower our own businesses. We know that within our community the huge amount of capital we invest in world markets is better served in our own hands.With the blessings of our Ancestors and God Almighty we are in the process of re-birth, growth and expansion.We are creating a place within the marketplace to come together to develop "our" own market. We are a network working together to list our businesses to a market that wants to keep our monies within our own community longer by shopping among our own community. We will support our own businesses, talents, products, artists...Our market will cater to the broad spectrum of services that need to be marketed, shared and supported.We must understand the crucial nature of supporting our own businesses. The market can be ours---we just have to do it.Join us as we grow, make history and make money work for us. Feel free to share the news of our new market venture to members of the African family that have vision; who know that it all begins with us.---------------------------------------------------------
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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======================================================
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