Desirée Glapion Rogers is the descendant of a Creole voodoo priestess named Marie Laveau Glapion. The first time I meet her, she welcomes me into her East Wing lair—a rhythm and blues tune plays on a white iPod, a potted white orchid perches between two windows, fresh flowers sit on a heavy wooden desk. This […]

Oba Olanes Owosofo, Timi of Ede. The Timi of Ede is one of sixteen Yoruba kings permitted to wear the beaded crown. In the past, the people revered the oba (king) as a god. He wore clothes forbidden to common mortals and he alone took shelter under a state umbrella. He appeared in public three […]

Bro. A. A. Rashid is a dynamic teacher, lecturer and author. His teachings push beyond the conventional Qabalistic paradigm and are designed with a down to earth approach making complex ancient concepts easy for diverse audiences to interpret and explore. His teachings include intense examination of ancient Egyptian and Hebrew languages and subsequent correlation to […]

King of the Xhosa, Xolilizwe Sigcawu has proclaimed king of all the Xhosa peoples, including the Thembu, the ethnic group to which Nelson Mandela belongs. Like the four million other Xhosa of the Transkei, the king lives poverty on a kraal (farm) in the Umtata area. His authority and prestige have not survived the Xhosa […]

A former officer of the Ganaian army, Nana Amon Ndoufou is the most important Akan monarch in the Ivory Coast. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, four Anyi clans crossed the Komoé River and settled in Krinjabo. The chief of the first clan was immediately enthroned king of Sanwi because the Akan could not conceive […]

Sugar Hill, 1974 In Vodou or voodoo, Baron Samedi is one of the aspects of Baron, one of the loa. He is a loa of the dead, along with Baron’s numerous other incarnations.

Amazon Ever thought of life as a very long movie? Ever felt synchronicity involuntarily? I think we, collectively, live throughout this so much we often motivate along w/o properly processing the recognition of this thing, such as breathing. Are you breathing? Now, this is a foolish question but isn’t it also ignorant to say to […]

The title reads ‘The Return of the Sol Brothers Live from Bavaria, Germany’. What we have here as I quote. Mother Goddess Nadine Gilyard The Science of Iridology: sets the stage with healing techniques of the forgotten Science of Iridology using love as the foundation for many of her diagnosis. Mother Goddess gives us intellect […]

Being the court jester is something that entails as much concentration from one individual as king does if not more. Some say we’ve all been branded fools but I tend to disagree, our hunger is from a fall, language is primitive – chaos is silence. See the wooden bowls for food on the right, this […]

Oba means King/Ruler. You’ll find a ton of these “sovereigns” still existing in our time. For instance, in the African Kings book. I think it’s funny that people think royalty is a pastime or something limited to Elizabeth. In fact, BOUBA ABDOULAYE Sultan of Rey-Bouba is ruling territory as large as Belgium and Luxemburg reunited […]