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... Cultivare, cultiva terra, arable land, colere, colō; worship, protect, cultivate. As a regular gift to our $2400+/biennium members, Live From Planet Earth extends a special unlimited invitation to our family's homestead/farm/estate in Jamaica. Sign-up by clicking your membership contribution amount below. Live From Planet Earth is a hands-on, cooperative meditation — on self-sustaining, tropical, organic human being and development — rooting and producing through your generous, reparative, faithful contributions. Please support by helping us fill this measure little by little, slowly but surely: Biennial ($2400); Monthly ($5), ($10), ($25), ($30), ($40), ($60), ($70), ($80), ($90), ($130), ($200), ($300), ($500), ($1000).

WE PRACTICE regenerative & sustainable gardening, organic soil, fertilizer, & mulch production, worm composting, seed saving, germination, eco-friendly pest & disease management, multi- & inter-cropping, swimming-, breathing-, stretching-, walking-, running meditations, & book-, music-, media study abroad groups, as well as complimentary massage, ph-balancing, extractions, aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, detoxification, hydration, high-frequency treatment, regimen design, skin-analysis planning for long-term skin-barrier stabilization (using natural extract/active-ingredient botanicals such as witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana, hamamelidaceae), & last but perhaps most importantly, a complimentary menu of plant-based nutrition (fruits, roots, seeds/nuts/grains/beans, herbs, & vegetables; meat/eggs are negotiable). SIGN-UP BY SELECTING YOUR MEMBERSHIP CONTRIBUTION AMOUNT ABOVE.

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"5+ years of care & attention, treated my skin holistically, centered what is in my body, what I consume, & what is around my body (stress, &c.) & folded that all into a plan to not only care for my skin, but also my self. I can't recommend enough!"
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"So informative and really willing to help me boost my natural skin-barrier function sustainably, instead of temporary instant-glow."
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"Listening to music with a cool breeze, planting seeds, this experience has made me more peaceful, graceful, & grateful."
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✚ The Liberator Magazine: Wellness Writer/Producer; Juhi Singh Center of Integrative & Eastern Medicine: Licensed Natural Esthetician; HeyDay Wellness & Skincare: Licensed Esthetician; Christine Valmy Esthetics & Cosmetology: Apprentice.

"The Earth is our inheritance. But unfortunately we must still go out to take it each day, simply to live from it, 'with compassion without compromise,' as Nzinga Ratibisha Heru says. 'Seize The Time,' as Bobby Seale says, like ninjas out for 'matunda ya kwanza, the first fruits' as Maulana Karenga says, in Swahili, in real free 'familyhood,' not fake matrix ones; 'Ujamaa,' as Julius Nyerere says. So that we can 'grow some,' as Fannie Lou Hamer says. 'So, ask somebody that you know, where is your land?!, if you want that you gotta show that to me by not somebody else's actions but, whose?, yours,' as Afeni Shakur says. As I would say."
(Brian Hughes Kasoro, Founder)

✚ The Last Generation of Black People: Editor/Writer/Publisher; The Liberator Magazine: Editor/Writer/Publisher/Producer; Africana Study Abroad Alliance: Founder/Director; Institute for Urban & Minority Education: Research Assistant; Student Press Initiative: Zankel Urban Fellow; Live From Planet Earth Podcast - Where Is My Black Messiah?: Executive Producer; Rest In Beats: Project Manager; Already Famous/Airwalk: Project Manager; The Societies of Fine Art & Collections/FiveMyles: Curator; Live From Planet Earth Festivals (D.C., Brooklyn #1-16, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dakar): Planner/Organizer; Mermaids & Merwomen in Black Folklore/Fiber Arts (Charleston): Sponsor; The African American Art Collective/Salt Space (NY): Sponsor; Afro:Baile! (Pheonix): Sponsor; Twin Cities Community Forum: Planner/Organizer/Sponsor; Balance Grasshopper: Web Developer; Sprenger & Lang: Civil Rights Class Action Legal Assistant.

LIVE FROM PLANET EARTH:

NATURE IMMERSION THERAPY,

NO-DIG PERMACULTURE,

GOOD SPEECHES,

BREAKING (THE) MEDIA,

AFRICANA STUDY ABROAD ALLIANCE (#reparations),

THE LAST GENERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE,

THE LIBERATOR MAGAZINE.

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GOOD SPEECHES

on adaptive homeostasis: 12 adaptogenic herbs for stress & change

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Madeline Lafontant
{Minneapolis, MN:USA & Jamaica}
(2022). The Liberator Magazine.

Adaptogens = Preventive Care

Adaptogens are an adaptive and preventative approach to ensuring long term health of the nervous system. If you are seeking more predictability in your daily circadian rhythm/wake-sleep cycle or assistance in managing any of your tension-to-relaxation transitions, be they physical, chemical, biological, spiritual or psychological in nature, then incorporating adaptogenic herbs into a routine can gently guide you.

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7 steps to mindful skincare

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Madeline Lafontant
{Minneapolis, MN:USA & Jamaica}
(2022). The Liberator Magazine.

1. Absorption & Blood Flow

If you are serious about your health and appearance, then a mindful skincare routine is one of the most important practices to develop, and no matter what season or age you are, absorption and blood flow should be the key foci in your skincare routine; this means eliminating toxins and eating foods to support the skin and gut, drinking plenty of water, balancing sun exposure and sun protection, managing stress, and getting high-quality sleep.

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kehlani — altar

Altar (Lyrics written by Pop Wansel, Ambré, Daoud, Kehlani. Produced by Daoud & Pop Wansel) 4:01 (amazon.com)

"Fresh white flowers and a new tea light. Nine cups of water, still water. Soon, I'll see your face. Don't know why I ever thought you were far away. I shoulda known better. If I set a flame and I call your name. I'll fix you a plate, we can go to dinner. We can share a meal your way. And I'll play you the songs that you used to play. So I put you on the altar, stay just a little bit longer. Laid it out for ya, thought I felt you before. Now you're closer. Closer. So I put you on the altar, stay just a little bit longer. Laid it out for ya, thought I felt you before. Now you're closеr. Closer. Holdin' on to things you told me. Holdin' on to dreams you showеd me. Holdin' on to anything from you. That you've been leavin' here. Now I believe, I swear. I can smell your perfume. Pickin' up your signal like a phonebooth. Keepin' you alive and I do it 'cause I want to. If I set a flame and I call your name. I'll fix you a plate, we can go to dinner. We can share a meal your way. And I'll play you the songs that you used to play. So I put you on the altar, stay just a little bit longer. Laid it out for ya, thought I felt you before. But now you're closer (Closer). Closer (Now you're closer). So I put you on the altar, stay just a little bit longer. Laid it out for ya, thought I felt you before. But now you're closer (Closer). Closer (Closer)."

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on pan-african agriculture & industry for my daughter: great-great grandpa james (big jim) a. godette's letters from jail to james weldon johnson

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2022, Minneapolis/Jamaica: Hughes-Kasoro Family Archives.

"To Mr. James W. Johnson, contributing editor of the New York Age:

"Sir, I notice an article in the last issue of your valuable paper. In title, Harness The Dollar, an I must say, it was appealing to me. That was my lifelong dream as to how could my race better their condition. From a politician, social, and financial standpoint so that we could be recognized as a race and demand our constitutional rights. I had this figured out 20 years ago and not being a man of education I didn’t no (sp) how to put it before my people and let it drop but this have inspired me and I shall lay my plans square before you for consideration because I see that my people have got the spirit and this is the way I layed out my plans then and now as follows.

"Get some loyal race man like yourself to whom has the confidence of all his people, call a committee of honest and loyal race men like Fred. R. Moore, R.S. Abbott, and our Ida B. Wells and form rules and lay out plans for a big race enterprise that would be a direct benefit to the whole negro race from a financial standpoint then lay the matter square before the people and tell them the (sp) you wanted 5,000,000 stockholders to sign a contract to take 10 shears (sp) each at $10.00 a shear (sp) and to pay down $10.00 in which is one shear and then pay $1.00 every three months thereafter until the remainding (sp) $90.00 dollars is paid and if they have not the $10.00 at hand, let them pay down $1.00 dollar and gave them 90 days to pay the remainding (sp) $9.00 dollars so that won’t no hardship on no one. Isn’t that easy. Think of it.

"Then when this is done it will give this committee $50,000,000 dollars spot cash to do business and no one hurt and $5,000,000 dollars every three months thereafter for 22 years and six month. That would put this business on cash bases (sp) and wholly independent of any one from a financial standpoint you would be under no obligation to no man or set of men outside of your race and for various reasons I will suggest to committee where this great plan should be. As history tells us gunboats runned up to Cairo, Ill. during the civil war, I feel that steam ships could run there now. So I suggest that this committee should buy a big tract of land somewhere below Cairo 3 or 4 thousand acres for this big plant and a city then buy big stone quarries along the river and big brick yards, saw mills, an plaining (sp) mills. Buy 7 or 8 big barges and 3 or 4 powerful life boats to play between New Orleans and St. Paul and Chicago and also buy two big steam boats then call in your skill and unskill (sp) labor and put them to work.

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witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana, hamamelidaceae: nature's first aid medicine

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Madeline Lafontant
{Minneapolis, MN:USA & Jamaica}
(2021). The Liberator Magazine.

Hamamelis virginiana, Hamamelidaceae, also known as witch hazel, is nature's first aid medicine. It contains one of the most common therapeutic properties in nature, astringent. When used externally, it functions as vulnerary, meaning it promotes the healing of tissues and wounds. This remedy is one of the most sustainable and versatille bathing practices to clear and detoxify. The bark of the plant is distilled for use. For millennia, people have produced extract by boiling the stems of the shrub and using the decoction to treat swellings, inflammations, and even provide soothing relief to tumors. Northern Native Americans use extract of witch hazel extensively for medicinal purposes and during ceremonies and rituals of purification. "The Osage" Native Americans "called it Shemba and made a poultice out of the bark to treat tumours, sores, and ulcers" (Erichsen-Brown, 1979).

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polyfidelity, (bisexual)polygyny, & intimate, complementary extended-family: the realistic, eternal africana-indigenous solution to disharmony & oppression

(artwork: Madeline Lafontant)

In the following email about polygamy/(bi)polygyny/polyfidelity, a reader, sharing her thoughts after an individual study on the subject, wonders if a modified or resurrected, egalitarian version of the practice might be an immediate solution to and defense against persistent forms of politico-economic oppression such as greed.

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the last generation of black people

The Last Generation of Black People

2012, New York/Minneapolis: The Liberator Magazine.
ISBN 9780991108404

Distributors:

» Artbook @ Museum of Modern Art PS1
» McNally Jackson
» The Strand
» Quimby's
» Ancestry Books
» PanAfrican Connection

Testimonials:

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"Brilliant."
(Joe)

"On a level nobody else is on... nothing like this exists elsewhere."
(Karega)

» Editor's Note
(by Brian Hughes Kasoro / Minneapolis, MN:USA)

» For the Sake of Sanity
(by Stephanie Joy Tisdale / Philadelphia, PA:USA)

» Realities We Otherwise Would Never Know: The Art Of Relating Beyond Ideology
(by Brian Hughes Kasoro / Brooklyn, NY:USA)

» On Aesthetic Reasoning In Africana Studies
(by Josh Myers / Philadelphia, PA:USA)

» The Case of Hip-Hop
(by Michael J. Wilson / Brooklyn, NY:USA)

» Outsider Music: Willis Earl Beal and the Real Blues
(by Brian Kupillas / Fayatteville, AR:USA)

» I'm in the Band
(by Nira Minniefield / Houston, TX:USA)

» Nat Turner: God's Instrument of Vengeance
(by Vagabond Beaumont / New Rochelle, NY:USA)

» Reflections on African (American) Adulthood in an Object Permanence Culture
(by Adisa Ajamu / Long Beach, CA:USA)

» The Children of Injustice (book excerpt)
(by Ruth Auguste / Vancouver: Canada)

» (art) Rap Music and Gold Teeth
(by Fletcher Williams / New York, NY:USA)

» The Percussive Approach
(by Sherese Francis / Hollis, NY:USA)

» The Last Mask: An Ekphrasis of Papua's Masquerade Kamoro
(by Mia R. Keeys / Jakarta: Indonesia)

» "Dude, you're the Whitest Black man I've ever met."
(by Khaya Maseko / Johannesburg: South Africa)

» The Rise and Inevitable Liberation of the Black Creative Class
(by Robert Bland / Hyattsville, MD:USA)

» Beautyful Radiant Things
(by Taryn Jeanie Mackay / Johannesburg: South Africa)

» Notes from the Nobodies
(by Jessica Porter and Jeanette E. Toomer / Brooklyn, NY:USA)

» A Prince Remembers A King Named Oliver In Exile
(by Shawn Chandler Bingham / Tampa, FL:USA)

» Speaking Truth to Perceived Power
(by Vanessa May / Los Angeles, CA:USA)

» I Bet You Thought Her Life Was About You (Ms. Lauryn Hill)
(by Krystal Nylle Roberts / Atlanta, GA:USA)

» Heathen Songs of the Natives
(by Charles Nhamo Rupare / Johannesburg, South Africa)

» Afro-America at the Crossroads: Ritual Ethnogenesis
(by Shayla Monroe / Memphis, TN:USA)

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The Last Generation of Black People

The opening words of The Liberator Magazine’s first book release fittingly belong to historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke: “A people’s name should link them to land, history, and culture. ‘Black’ tells you how you look, but not who you are.”

So begins The Last Generation of Black People (The Liberator Magazine, 2012) — a biographic, ethnographic compilation of critical research in consciousness and culture that marks more than a decade of independent print journal publishing. The theme and namesake were born out of a recognition that a mutation had occurred; from the multi-generational experiences bracketed by post-slavery reconstruction and the crack epidemic of the 80s, into fully-commercialized notions of “Blackness.” At this pivotal juncture, the generation of the post-crack era could either go the way of an historically-amnesic Blackness or embrace the potential for a generational rebirth and time-signature realignment with African land, history, and culture.

“In order to proceed confidently with the work of remaking lost connections in our collective consciousness there ought to be sober acceptance, as a whole, however long it takes, of both what we are and what we are not,” said publisher Brian Kasoro. “It follows that it may be a good thing to cap an era of rhetorical confusion.”

The Last Generation of Black People is 138 compact and perfect-bound pages with a matte full-color finish, adorned with commissioned double-cover artwork, reprinted on limited edition t-shirts.

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shamba- (in e.africa: "cultivated ground; farm") to-table kale, peppers, cabbage, & maharagwe ("curry/coconut beans, carrots, corn, & chapati") with african taste restaurant in nairobi, kenya

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africana study abroad alliance #reparations

(Photos via Kasoro.com, Habesha Inc., & Bro/Sis)

The Africana Study Abroad Alliance (ASAA) promotes Africana study in nature immersion therapy, regenerative & sustainable permaculture gardening, organic fertilizer production/worm composting/seed saving/germination/eco-friendly pest & disease management/multi- & inter-cropping, swimming/breathing/stretching/walking/running meditation, vegetarian/vegan/plant-based nutrition/exercise, production, & publishing. The alliance was founded by Brian Hughes Kasoro along with The Liberator Magazine/Live From Planet Earth to foster Africana literacies in diaspora travel & 8 African/Indigenous adolescent study abroad tour/leadership programs from 6 cities, including New York (International Youth Leadership Institute, Brotherhood Sister-Sol), Atlanta (Habesha, Sankofa Spirit), Baltimore (Afrikan Youth Alchemy), St. Louis (Good Journey), Philadelphia (Sankofa Freedom Academy), & Detroit (Atlantic Impact).

Unlike mere tourism & experience programs, our focus is on structural education and helping the members of the alliance turn tourism and study abroad experiences into accredited language, writing, science, or social courses, using critical multimodal literacies to produce oral (talk, song, rap, language), textual (reading, writing, visual), and practical (farming, dance, instrumentation) good work*, music**, or speech*** prior to, during, and after travel that exceeds common "standards" and is ready for publication across The Liberator's production and distribution platform.

Notable past contributors include Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr (chairman of Howard University African American Studies), Dr. Clyde Taylor (author of "The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract—Film & Literature"), Opiyo Okeyo (director of "Birth of Afrobeat"), Michael J. Wilson (professor of English at New York City College of Technology), Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (son of Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o), Dr. Anyabwile Aaron Love (Pennsylvania State University African American Studies postdoctoral fellow), Dr. Melisa Riviere (University of Minnesota Anthropology professor), and some who have gone on to work at BuzzFeed, LivingSocial, and Ebony Magazine. The Liberator has published over 50 African American travel stories from over 12 diaspora nations and sites to date.

Our Goals: (1) to create cooperation & collaboration around a mastery-level Africana literacies curriculum that earns traveling students academic credit for developing varied profile & narrative skills for research & communications; (2) to normalize Africana study abroad for African descended youth as a means of human & community development & international cooperation; (3) to represent a powerful united alliance that mutually promotes & supports Africana study abroad programs & organizations, culturally-relevant Africana literacies, & Africana Studies to communities & schools; & (4) to serve as a diasporic storytelling & educational exchange-asset. We invite your Africana study abroad program to join the alliance.

The Liberator Magazine
(Live From Planet Earth / Diaspora publication distributed online & in 11 countries, 9 U.S. cities)
HQ: USA.
Destinations: Jamaica and Kenya.
Book publications: The Last Generation of Black People distributed at (New York: Artbook @ MoMA PS1, BookCourt, McNally Jackson Books, and Strand Bookstore); (Los Angeles: Eso Won Books); (Chicago: Quimby's Bookstore); (Atlanta: Medu Bookstore, Moods Music, and Nubian Bookstore); (District of Columbia: Sankofa Video & Bookstore); (Florida: African Extravaganza and Mojo Books & Records); (Texas: Pan-African Connection); (Minnesota: Ancestry Books, Common Good Books, Subtext Books, and Mayday Books); (Tennessee: The African Place).
Magazine publications: Previous Releases; Travel Articles: from Haiti by Nathalie Pierre, from Ghana by Anyabwile Love, from Egypt by Dr. Greg Carr, from South Africa by Mike Stewart Jr., Stephanie Tisdale, Melvin Barrolle, & Nate Mathews, from South Sudan by Jeri Hilt, from Brazil by Justin Hansford, from Belize by Eric Berry, from Jamaica by Shamira Muhammad, from Ghana by Camille Thomas, from Ghana by Jeri Hilt; Seen in Ghana; Liberator Magazine 9.1 #24 Release Party/Live From Planet Earth Dakar.

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songhai / sustainability in benin

When I heard about media producers Bruktawit Tigabu (Ethiopia) & Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu (Nigeria) recently I immediately thought about Songhai Center in Benin as well as the United African Alliance Community Center in Tanzania, which we've already covered. I realized our mistake in that we hadn't yet dedicated a space here to share what Songhai is all about. Let's set the record straighter. While the previously profiled UAACC is a broadly focused educational project with radio stations and music production studios, Songhai Center, founded by a Father Godfrey Nzamujo (a black Dominican priest), is strictly about sustainable agriculture and technology. Together, these two community based organizations have the complimentary DNA fundamentals of a true African renaissance; UAACC is the "liberal arts University" to Songhai's "institute of agriculture and technology".

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Songhai is a land-based organization in Benin, West Africa whose stated mission is to: "Aspire to develop alternatives allowing Africans to stand on their feet through agricultural entrepreneurship, in an integrated development framework enhancing agriculture, industry and services. This development is centered, above all, on human development, the realization of local resources and the appropriation of foreign techniques and technologies."

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realities we otherwise would never know / the art of relating beyond ideology

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Brian Hughes Kasoro
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(2012). The Last Generation Of Black People. New York: The Liberator Magazine.

"We cannot see the wind, but we can both hear and see what it does. What some call intuition, others would call the eyes and ears of the heart. In real ways, only when we experience the Universe with our hearts as well as with our minds will our ears hear, our eyes see, realities we otherwise would never know."*

My dear love,

I do not support Feminism. Yet, I have noticed enough to call it a trend that many intellectual-types have pledged ideological allegiance today. I do not consider myself enlightened. I am not a romantic. At every turn ideology seems to me a reactionary solution. Imbalance--the absence of peaceful understanding--between man and woman, however, is one of the most important issues of our time.

In thinking about this imbalance, I think about struggle, war, and justice, as these remain major considerations. Forced to take war for granted today, I wonder about how people judge whether or not the winner of war deserves the result. How do people determine the winner's victory to be just? Outside of ideology, the best rational argument is simply "survival of the fittest," that cliche bromide used to describe Charles Darwin's biological theory of natural selection. If, by and large, men are physically stronger than women and have assumed this power over their counterparts in the physical world, then I suppose one could question whether the "fittest" are not simply surviving according to their natural abilities in this moment--those forms that are capable of outdoing others deserve to outdo others. Are we required to take war for granted for all time though? I'm aware that many Western philosophers shun what they call essentialist thought, or the imagining of a Utopian world where the problems of today do not affect our essential knowledge. Yet, for the oppressed--victims of the empirical knowledge that constructed scientific racism--discernment regarding what affects and transforms knowledge will always be an essential mechanism of existence. In this light, I conclude that justice cannot exist in war.

I'm not really tryna make an argument of it here, my dear.

I want for you to know of balance, first and foremost; as my father and my mother taught me. We come to know righteousness and unrighteousness in complement, as with light and darkness, and love and hate. One cannot even take love for granted in the natural world, so it should be cherished. Indeed, one can always take balance as granted, even when delayed, because it is absolutely necessary for life at its most basic, technical level. The "change" that Octavia Butler wrote about "shaping" is the continuous process of balancing--finding peaceful understanding.

"All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change..."

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found in translation / les nubians' princesses nubiennes

Princesses Nubiennes is the debut studio album by Afro-French music duo Les Nubians. It was released in September 1998 by OmTown Records. Considered by many to be their best work to date, Time said it "had an emotional generosity and a spiritual depth." All tracks composed by Célia Faussart and Hélène Faussart except as noted.

De-main (Jazz) 3:50

Les Portes du Souvenir 4:58

Abbeylude (Interlude) (Mounir Belkhir, Faussart, Faussart) 0:28

Makeda (Mounir Belkhir, Faussart, Faussart) 4:53

"They want to make us believe lost myths. The passages of history falsified and revised. From Ramses to Mandela, the truths that were killed. In ignoring the start, they wander aimlessly. (On veut nous faire croire. A des mythes perdus Des passege de I'histoires. Falsifies et revus De Ramses a mandela, Que de verites tues. En ignorant le depart, on erre sans but.) Makeda was queen, beautiful and powerful. Solomon dreamed of her black skin. I sing to revive the memories. To dig up the knowledge. That the spiral of time erases. The queen of Sheba lives in me. Makeda lives in me. (Makeda etait reine, belle et puissante. Salomon revait de sa peau noire. Je chante pour raviver les memoires. Exhumer les connaissances. Que la spirale do temps efface. La reine de saba vit en moi. Makeda vit en moi.) Revive our memories. We must change history. It's going adrift. Adrift in words... no. The knowledge and the wisdom are to be carried in our hands. Listen and observe. (Ravivons nos memoires. Ll faut changer I'histoire. Elle part a la derive, A la derive de mes maux. Le savoir et la sagesse. Sont a portee de main. Ecoute et observe...) Makeda was queen, beautiful and powerful. Solomon dreamed of her black skin. I sing to revive the memories. To dig up the knowledge. That the spiral of time erases. The queen of Sheba lives in me. Makeda lives in me. (Makeda etait reine, belle et puissante. Salomon revait de sa peau noire. Je chante pour raviver les memoires. Exhumer les connaissances. Que la spirale do temps efface. La reine de saba vit en moi. Makeda vit en moi.) My people dance and sing. They exalt their joy. Far from ignorance. They show their faith. Rich in men and in value. We make up for the mistakes. Sons and daughters you and me. Ready for battle. (Mon peuple danse et chante. Ll faut sa joie. Loin de I'ignorance, il demontre sa foi, Riche d'hommes et de valeurs, Lls repareront les erreurs, Fils et filles, vous et moi, Prets au combat.) Makeda was queen, beautiful and powerful. Solomon dreamed of her black skin. I sing to revive the memories. To dig up the knowledge. That the spiral of time erases. The queen of Sheba lives in me. Makeda lives in me. (Makeda etait reine, belle et puissante. Salomon revait de sa peau noire. Je chante pour raviver les memoires. Exhumer les connaissances. Que la spirale do temps efface. La reine de saba vit en moi. Makeda vit en moi.)"

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