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JJ Rawlings Dead, He was not my hero

Interesting seeing the tributes to JJ Rawlings who died on the 12th November 2020. I wonder about his lasting legacy. I have a biased view of his reign and find it hard to forget the pain of his coups and direction he sent Ghana in. I remember he and his soldiers blamed Ghana's powerful market women for the country's wows and so they flogged market women in public, killed judges, locked up and tortured journalists, and shot politicians. I was about 9 when Rawlings and his band of not so merry men took over Ghana. I don't know if Ghana was in a bad way, I was a child, but remember that my life changed after the 1979 coup and was never the same again. My parents had lived in the UK for 10 years as was their plan and they returned home to Ghana in 1976. I was 6 years old. I loved my new home Ghana, I went to a private school and my dad worked for the timber marketing board. We ate breakfast and supper at the dinning table, had a house boy who swept the house and an...

PRIDE IN LONDON OFFICIAL APOLOGY

Pride in London NEW OFFICAL STATEMENT We Pride in London are prepared to acknowledge that after 500 years of worldwide imperialism & capitalist based on inequality and division created by white organisations. It is likely that we have behaved in racist and unequal ways towards POC. We are in contact with Dr Robin DiAngelo the author of 'White Fragility' and Jane Elliot to help us to understand where and how our racism rises and most importantly what we can do about it. We also acknowledge that as an institution that has not been able to listen to black and POC who have been in the organisation for many years it is best that we get white people to teach us where we have gone wrong as we are unlikely to be able to handle news of our racist behaviour from POC. We are now ready to start a full 3 month in-depth anti racism course and really look forward to being the first British institution to admit to racism and did the work required to stamp it out. We apologise...

Baba Siete Saudadedes, Nganga Bukhosi Bhekizulu. Priest in Afro-American...

this week on FIRE FROM THE SUN we talked to His Eminence Baba Siete Saudades, Nganga Bukhosi Bhekizulu, is a renowned spiritualist, Baba Siete is the inheritor of potent ancestral gifts common to his family lineage, he displayed the gift of prophecy and second sight as a child and has not stopped. his mother tells the story of the 3 year old Siete telling a super market shopper to go home because there was a women in 'her' house with 'her husband' from that moment on Baba Siete's gifts grew and by age 14 he was giving tarot readings in school ! Baba Siete is initiated into many different African and American spiritual lineages. He was a great guest and we learned all about the Afro-American religiospiritual tradition known as Hoodoo or Conjure and also is an initiate of many the water deities. He talks in depth about his work divining, doing readings making conditioning soaps, back to sender, cleansings, gris gris and protection. This is o...

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