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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable"~~~ Kenyan proverbAfrikan Sistahs seeks to assist in healing the Black woman worldwide, using Afrikan Traditonal Spirituality, specifically Yoruba. We intend to go back to the original ways of our Afrikan Ancestral 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. No one at that time thought we would survive against the horrific, immeasurable odds against us. However, we did survive and have become the backbone the afrikan american family.There is one thing missing however, and that is our ability to use our inherent power as descendants of the Afrikan to heal ourselves as well as our ability 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. They 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.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". In so doing, perhaps we can empower ourselves in the ways of the Original mothers and learn to heal ourselves, our families and our communities.May we all be blessed from the Heavens as we go about our healing journey.Ase!May it be so!A single bracelet does not jingle~~~ Afrikan proverb
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