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[rhetoricandlogic]

REVIEW: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

I have been to New Orleans, once. And even in my limited understanding of New Orleans, I can imagine how difficult it would be to get down on paper in The Black God’s Drums. Not only does P. Djèlí Clark get it on paper, but he also evokes the “spirit of the place.” He understands what makes New Orleans hum. Clark understands the smells, and he gets the people. He gets what it feels like to walk the cobblestone streets and hear the music of Mardi Gras. Any reader can read this story and smell beignets, moss, and hear the deep thrumming of drums in their bones. It is no small feat.

The Black God’s Drums is an immersive tale, a steampunk-esque alternative history. An eloquently written, and researched, story set in confederate era New Orleans post Civil War Stalemate. Clark took legends and folklore from Haiti, the Caribbean, and Africa and paired them with the history of the Haitian Slave Rebellion of 1794. In reality, the rebellion helped create only Haiti, a state free from slavery, and ruled by non-whites and former captives. Yet, in this story, the rebellion helped free Haiti as well as most of the Caribbean and created a state known as The Free Isles. Thus a great stalemate was born between the Free Isles and the slave-owning south. A stalemate based upon a mysterious weapon, previously used once against the French fleet. A weapon that is so powerful that to use it again, it would destroy everything.

Against the backdrop of history, both real and imagined lay New Orleans and our protagonist Creeper. Creeper is a 13-year-old street kid gifted or cursed by the goddess Oya. She makes her living stealing and doing what is necessary to survive. Even though Creeper is a thief, there a strong moral current that flows through her. Given different circumstances, you know that Creeper wouldn’t steal. There is no great thrill to stealing save for prolonging her life a day at a time. Oya, the Yoruba goddess of winds, lightning, and violent storms, death, and rebirth. She was brought to New Orleans in the hearts of slaves. Part of Oya has settled inside of Creeper, sending her visions and protecting her on occasion.

Creeper wants to escape her circumstance. After a chance meeting with a Cajun smuggler and overhearing some useful and important information, Creeper has a chance to leave. What follows is an exciting array of characters. Specifically in the form of Captain Ann-Marie of the airship Midnight Robber. The Captain has secrets of her own and that could involve Creeper. The story has exciting plot elements and a gorgeous retelling of history from that era.

If you like stories that involve nuns, smuggling, mysticism, and saving the world. All set against New Orleans, this is the story for you. It is gorgeously and atmospherically written and I cannot wait to read whatever else Clark writes.

“Fighting it has to be like trying to push back a flood. In my head, Oya laughs. You can run from those old Afrikin goddesses. But they find you when they ready.”

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Though the wicked persecute I ,still my heart has love.

Oh my head's anointed with the powers of love

Though the wicked persecute I with envy and grudge

Oh my head's anointed. 👁️✨🍃🖤✨👑 🦁

[trinitydigest]

AfriKin Announces Miami Screening of ‘Unite For Bissau’, the Groundbreaking Documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films Exploring Agroecology, Women’s Empowerment, and Leadership in Guinea-Bissau

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[newsheadlinesnow]

AfriKin Announces Miami Screening of ‘Unite For Bissau’, the Groundbreaking Documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films Exploring Agroecology, Women’s Empowerment, and Leadership in Guinea-Bissau

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[columbianewsupdates]

AfriKin Foundation Presents “UNITE FOR BISSAU (Nô Kumpu Guiné)” Film Screening and Live Q&A with Director Iara Lee

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[conversationpoint]

Experience “A Taste of AfriKin”: An Evening of Art, Music, Culture, and Culinary Excellence during Miami Spice in North Miami

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[thealphareporter]

AfriKin Art Fair 2024: Threads of Life in Fragments of Time – A Cultural Odyssey at the Heart of Miami Art Week.

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[thesunshinereporter]

AfriKin Art Fair 2024: Threads of Life in Fragments of Time – A Cultural Odyssey at the Heart of Miami Art Week.

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[blacknbougiee]

Can you be pro black without being anti white?

I seen this question pop up on Facebook, and I had to really think about it. I really don’t have a answer for this but I want to hear your thoughts on this.

[supportblackart]

“Untitled No. 101” by The Daniel Twins @arttakestwo 🎨🎨 Mixed media, oil painting + acrylic 72in x 48in “You have the power to change perception, to inspire and empower, and to show people how to embrace their complications, and see the flaws, and the true beauty and strength that’s inside all of us.” — @beyonce . . #supportblackart #arttakestwo #colorblindartists #DontTouchMyHair #abstract #abstractexpressionism #mixedmedia #abstractportrait #Afrikin #ForTheCulture #WakandaForever #BeautifulBizarre #artlovers #fortheculture #blackart #artstagram #visualart #oiloncanvas #blackartist #cubism #msftsrep #artbasel #basquiat #picasso #blkcreatives

[inirootsnculture]

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Regrann from @afrikinmovement - Don’t let the weather make you miss out. We have you covered. AFRIKIN is indoors and our outdoors is covered under tent. Come enjoy the #Culture that defines us and binds us together through Art, Fashion, Food, Performance and Talks @zenithartandfashion on Saturday May 19th Downtown #Miami. Doors open at 5pm. Event starts at 6pm sharp. Come be a part of a lovely vibe. Peace & Blessings. - #inirnc #thebeautyinculture #inirootsnculture #afrikin #cultureking #culture #mutabaruka

[letthelightgrow-blog]

AFRIKIN® STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

How long are we going to allow other people to name us, to determine what we respond to? 

There was a time we answered to “colored”, but now it’s an insult. How then did “people of color” become acceptable?

What is an African-American?

Our Hispanicbrothers and sisters are often maligned for not aligning with the term “Black”. Caribbean people in general have had difficulties being lumped in with “Black Americans”.Our African brothers and sisters do not categorize themselves as Black, but instead they rep their tribe with pride.  Bi- and multiracial people are often ostracized for not being Black enough, but didn’t they saythat one drop makes us Black? Do we agree?

Why aren’t we united in our concept of identity?

We are a people united by our origins in a geographical source point, Africa. The world’s majority come from a continent that is larger than the mainland US, most of Europe, China and India combined.We are brothers and sisters of the African diaspora. We are kinfolk. We are AFRIKIN.

 Finally, there is a term with which we can identify without the historically negative implications, a title that has not been marketed in the Western world as a synonym for lazy, predator, criminal, thug.

 We do not accept the way we’ve been categorized, insulted, cheapened for centuries; we are looking forward together as a peopleWe are no longer asking each other to confirm stories of what we did before slavery or whose fault it is that we were lost.  

We are no longer letting the media brainwash us with demeaning images of our brothers and sisters abroad that portray them as savages when it is know who has created the most destruction and chaos on this earth.

 Through art, we communicate with our contemporaries, our kinfolk across the globe today, and how they navigate this crazy and amazing world we live in.We are learning about each other FROM each other, the differences and similarities we share as a people of modern day.Together, we work together with this understanding to create change and improve the future for our children so that they have a better history to reflect upon.

 Together, we are AFRIKIN.Check out black art and culture

[come-visit-me-in-hell-blog]

African Art and Black Culture - Afrikin

AFRIKIN® curates Black is Beautiful with the art and culture of the African Diaspora in South Florida on May 19

A soiree celebrating the beauty and individuality of the African Diaspora

with art, talks, fashion, food, innovation and performance.

Miami, FL – January 5, 2018 AFRIKIN®—a platform that curates the arts and culture of people of color, as we advance the ingenuity and promise across the Diaspora—presents AFRIKIN® 2018 | Art • Culture • Community, scheduled for Saturday, May 19th at a private location in South Florida. In line with this intention, the evening will embrace the uniqueness and similarities of our brothers and sisters, our AFRIKIN®, across the Diaspora, the born-day of Malcolm X underscoring the night’s festivities.

AFRIKIN® 2018 highlights diverse collections of emerging artists, work whispering solemn thoughts, others wailing of social injustice.  Experience visceral reactions to unconventional pieces as you are moved to tears or fury, compassion and action the ultimate result.

Our curated cuisine and open bar includes sumptuous fare from world-class culinary artisans and enlivened spirits, flavors and notes transporting you to locations unseen yet somehow familiar.  The chocolate bar will flow like the silky smooth skin of our people, bathed in cocoa butter.

AFRIKIN® Talks bring you into the world’s conversation, specifically the theme for 2018: Crafting the Narrative. Thought leaders, scholars, revolutionaries and our keynote speaker will spur the dialogue on society’s active role in trying to psychologically dismantle us, but focus on ways we can and will work to strategically empower ourselves. You will walk away from the Talks energized and armed with the knowledge to no longer acquiesce, but to make concrete change.

Models of striking beauty will grace our runway with collections reflecting the style and attitude of the world’s streets, as you envision the fabric of the people tenderly caressing you.  Their kinky coils revitalize the “Black Art is Beautiful” era and represent the originality so often appropriated, and seldom appreciated.

At AFRIKIN® 2018, you will be privy to the best kept secrets of our innovation and technological advances across the Diaspora, information unleashed to educate and empower everyone in attendance.

Collectively we are offbeat with our creativity and thinking, but we are a rhythmic people, our spirits grounded with the pulse of African drumming. You will be enraptured by electrifying performances, thrilled by the talents of top-notch artists from the continent and the Diaspora.

AFRIKIN® 2018 will be attended by educators, reformers and renegades; you will be in good company mingling with this eclectic and cultured coterie on the evening of Saturday, May 19, 2018. We look forward to your presence as you become apart of our mission to advance the ingenuity and promise of people of color across the Diaspora.

— Team AFRIKIN® is an accomplished group of artists and professionals who pool their expertise to create innovative cultural events. Our services range from event management and programming to developing effective campaigns. Our team’s unparalleled skill in creating new experiences with a social impact demonstrates how creative people use their efforts to solve problems.

Save the date: May 19, 2018 | for further information: afrikin.org, info@afrikin.org or call 305.900.5523

[trinitydigest]

AfriKin Art Fair 2024: Threads of Life in Fragments of Time – A Cultural Odyssey at the Heart of Miami Art Week.

http://dlvr.it/T7TpXD

[newsheadlinesnow]

AfriKin Art Fair 2024: Threads of Life in Fragments of Time – A Cultural Odyssey at the Heart of Miami Art Week.

http://dlvr.it/T7Tlxb