#capeverde

Excerpt from @greyrevealed’s March interview with @TaoofOtaku. #taoofotaku #greywilliamson #comics #indiecomics #scifi #valmarcomic #independent #sequentialart #comicbooks #podcast #interview #nigeria #nigerian #capeverde #africa #African #sumter #SC #bedstuy #brooklyn #carbonfibremedia #onjenayo #ziki #demi #tolu

Link to the full interview on our blog #TheEthyr | www.carbon-fibre.me/the_ethyr

Excerpt from @greyrevealed’s March interview with @TaoofOtaku. #taoofotaku #greywilliamson #comics #indiecomics #scifi #valmarcomic #independent #sequentialart #comicbooks #podcast #interview #nigeria #nigerian #capeverde #africa #African #sumter #SC #bedstuy #brooklyn #carbonfibremedia #onjenayo #ziki #demi #tolu

Link to the full interview on our blog #TheEthyr | www.carbon-fibre.me/the_ethyr

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“Pencil Vs Camera” creations of Cape Verde by Ben Heine

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa. The islands, covering a combined area of slightly over 4,000 square kilometres. Because of the infrequent occurrence of rainfall the overall landscape is not particularly green, despite what the country’s name suggests (“verde” means “green” in Portuguese).

The previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th Century, and became an important location in the Atlantic slave trade due to their geographically advantageous position. The islands’ prosperity often attracted pirates including Sir Francis Drake, who twice sacked the (then) capital Ribeira Grande, in the 1580s. The islands were also visited by Charles Darwin’s expedition in 1832. The decline in the slave trade in the 19th century resulted in an economic crisis. With few natural resources and without strong sustainable investment from the Portuguese, the people grew increasingly discontent with the colonial masters, who nevertheless refused to provide the local authorities with more autonomy. This discontent festered and culminated in 1975, when a movement led by Amílcar Cabral achieved independence for the archipelago.

Cape Verde has a rich cultural heritage influenced by continents like Africa, South America and Europe. This heritage is reflected in the country’s literature, poetry, cuisine, its dance and its famous national song, the Morna, represented worldwide by the famous Cesária Évora. (x)

Been washing my pain away in the ocean it’s a process! Don’t be hard on yOURself… learning to be gentle with myself so eye can be compassionate and gentle with others, especially the ones eye love most✨ KhepeRa is transformationKhepeRa is coming into BEING… because there is always more to learn and grow, we continue to heal as we move through eternity. Eye am balancing the areas eye see that need work with the accomplishments eye have learned to celebrate☀️
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Day 18 of the #KhepeRAchallenge is the HEART Arit (energy center aka chakra)… my heart is hurting a bit today. Usually eye care to share but eye will play this one close to heart — pun intended
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #healinghealers #healershealing #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #shestoodeep #SntmAust #ocean #beachlife #cleansing #holistichealing #Kemetic #Khepera #Maat #ancestralhealing #transformation #naturalbeauty #selflove
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The blessings are pouring in Once upon a time eye was told and believed that all cards were evil. Eye also believed that most Afrakan spiritual traditions were evil because everything eye learned in church literally made me afraid of my culture subconsciously. After all, our ancestors were heathen pagans who needed to be “saved” according them. Dua Renenet!
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Renenet is a force of NTR☀️ (NaTuRe)✨ This cosmic principle is symbolized here, it’s feminine energy associated with abundance and fertility. She is the NTRU of the harvest and connected with birth and death. Present in the birthing chamber is ancient texts she’s a protector and nourisher of the child after birth. The two vases you see in her hands, like breasts, pour the cosmic energy as “nourishment” for the subtle bodies. The abundance available through this universal energy flows through the “Milky Way” pouring from her breasts. Eye have to speak in symbol because everything isn’t for everyone. If it resonates you already kNOW✨
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The closer we get to NaTuRe, the closer we get to our ancestral spirituality and vice versa! Hit me up to book a reading with me if you’re interested in decoding the energy in your life according to the ancient spiritual system of Kemet (Ancient Egypt)
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#HightopsandHeels #CoinsandCowries #HTxH #cardreading #Kemet #Kemetic #Renenet #Spirituality #HealingHealers #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #Beach #Praia #Santiago #islandlife #beachlife #Nature #connecttonature #neter #holistichealing #abundance #oracle #shestoodeep #AustNfrKa
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The wealth of my great grandchildren will be due to the seeds eye am planting now or should eye say coconuts eye am planting Eye am taking RAsponsibilty for the generations that will follow me. #KhepeRaChallenge

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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #bempacasa #shestoodeep #sntmaust #coinandcowries #healinghealers #coconutpalm #coconuts #Crown #headwrap #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #Santiago #Praia #CoconutGrove #plantbased #electricfood #land #homeland #islandlife
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Do you know that my story is your story? They call it history, but it’s OURstory. Don’t wait for them to tell you who you are… kNOW who you are!☀️
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The island of Santiago is 1 of the 10 islands that make Cabo Verde. These islands on the western coast of Afraka are often forgotten but you’d be surprised at how important these humble islands are to us as ascendents of Afraka
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Praia, the capital of CV, is in Santiago… Cidade Velha, a world heritage sight, is also one of the last places many of our ancestors who were enslaved stepped after being tortured… they were forced back onto boats and shipped in the most inhumane conditions to many of the places we call “home” today. Even lesser known is the story of Somada, the town that birthed the resistance. Legend has it that many people who were attempted to be enslaved fought to escape and settled in this particular valley which of course turned out to play a vital role in the eventual rebellion against Portuguese colonialism, and independence from Portugal
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Lastly —for now— there is literally a concentration camp that most people have no clue about which is in Tarrafal, a beach city that has become an extremely popular tourist attraction. Not sure how many of them actually visit the concentration camp that was established by Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, for political prisoners who were against his regime. Many people who are from Cabo Verde don’t even know this story because the shame and neocolonialism (yes, most of the continent is still colonized just in more subtle but significant ways)… this is just scratching the surface of the POWER of these islands✨ As we kNOW ourselves we heal ourselves to FREE ourselves! FREEDOM is day 9 of the #KheperaChallenge
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #healinghealers #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #cidadevelha #praia #santiago #somada #assomada #revolutionary #ourstory #blackhistory #ancestry #ancestral #geneticmemory #tarrafal #freedom #khepera #streetart #islandlife #forthechildren #blackpower #shestoodeep
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The ocean surrounding me for the last 3 months on these islands has been a blessing eye came to heal and eye am! Eye want this for YOU! Eye am bringing people back home…. home to the source of the genetic pain and trauma of our ancestors we carry…. we have to HEAL so that we stop recycling the hurt!
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Eye am called to do this work… you don’t have to trust me if you FEEL ME✨✨ eye am your RAflection here to help you to heal yourself the 28 day ELECTRIC FOOD holistic healing challenge eye created 3 years ago is my FREE offering, but ya sis gotta eat! Eye sacrificed valuable parts of myself, eye purified and cleansed, eye ritualized and embodied for the expression of truth (Tehuti Ma’at) and transformation (KhepeRA) you’re witnessing. It’s not easy. Eye still cry often to RAlease all the pain eye carry and absorb for others.
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This is my path and eye am not complaining just sharing because the pure bliss eye have experienced in many moments truly balances any suffering. Eye am harmonizing✨ Eye just ask that you support me in transitioning to offering myself in a more reciprocal way because eye have to value myself everything can’t be free. Know your worth. Lesson learned! #KhepeRaChallenge EXPRESSION (day 7)
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #vitality #healinghealers #ocean #oshun #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #Fogo #healing #islandlife #travelnoire #khepeRa #Kemet #plantbased #wellness #holistichealing #healthiswealth #healthyself #expression #SntmAust #shestoodeep #blackhealers
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Stop and smell the yesterday was day 2 of the #KhepeRAchallenge for me — STILLNESS✨ was the theme but eye really spent little time still. Eye honestly didn’t even start with my 11 minutes of stillness (yikes!) but it’s all good cause eye made time as eye watered the plants and settled at sunset☀️ Eye have been building here, literally, and organizing things back in Brooklyn from over 5,550 miles away… the average person really couldn’t even manage the share number of things eye juggle in NY alone! Eye am so thAnkhful to have the ability to handle complexity but it’s not always with grace, and it’s not always healthy. Eye grow when eye make time to be STILL eye am accepting that it has to look differently for me right now. Eye am committing to the stillness before eye take a step out of the bed. Tracking my fertility has added another interesting dynamic to slow me down when eye awaken and center me on the throne of my womb #naturalbirthcontrol
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We start the day with 11 minutes of STILLNESS because everyone’s “meditation” is different. Without the weight of that particular word it allows each participant to explore and find their own way within themselves
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Be still to RAflect on what’s happening around you. STILLNESS allows us to hear and process the messages coming to us from our lives✨ from withIN us! #intuition
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BE STILL
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#HightopsandHeels #CoinsandCowries #HTxH #ShestooDeep #AstNfrka #healinghealers #Fogo #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #islandlife #travelnoire #locs #naturalhair #loclivin #naturalbeauty #westafrican #KhepeRa #stillness #meditation #blackhealers #plantbased
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Yesterday was such a FULL day before the full moon night☀️ most of my days in Fogo have been. You wouldn’t imagine how slow “time” moves here and how much happens in one day. It’s was day 1 of the #KhepeRaChallenge which is all about Sacred Space. Eye literally spent the day establishing my most sacred space here on the land of my ancestors
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☀️Started the day watching the sun rise over the mountain and then walking back to find the beautiful feathers, entire wings actually, of the wild Guinean fowl.
Watered the Baobab tree we transplanted the day before. Eye also transplanted at its feet, two squash plants that eye had planted on February’s Nu Moon.
⚒Worked with the stone workers that eye hired to finish building our home here.
Eye went to the ocean, Salina which is at the edge of this volcanic mountain island. It’s one of the few places in Fogo where the water is safe enough to swim. Eye gave my offering of fruits to the ocean and declared my 52 affirmations.
Watched the sunset as eye did an energy reading for myself.
Built a fire pit at the Banyan tree behind our house, which eye now see is my shrine on this land. Eye gathered wood and then RAturned to have my fire ritual as the full moon rose over the mountain.
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Eye did so much more like grabbing my clothes off the line but all in all eye was able to do all of this because eye didn’t have to worry about spending all day in the kitchen… eye had coconut, papaya, mango, collard green juiced with agave nectar throughout the day eye was more connected as so many of my cells were allowed to rest instead of digesting heavy meals✨
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #CoinsandCowries #healinghealers #cardreading #journaling #Maat #introspection #salina #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #Fogo #sacredspace #construction #building #feathers #guineafowl #WestAfrica #waterritual #fireritual
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Full Moon in Aust (virgo) ✨✨ Eye started holding sacred healing circles in 2016, gatherings every full moon to heal the womb. It started as a space eye needed for myself to heal from the traumas eye experienced in this lifetime, then it turned into more… a fire ritual conjuring the purest of energies for HEALING, LIBERATION, RESTORATION, ELEVATION and EXPANSION✨ my calling in this life. Eventually it became too much, too deep, too many and eye was drained and lost sight of my original intention to heal mySELF but as eye have come back around FULL CIRCLE to myself now this full moon eye spend at the beach embracing and calling in the healing powers of the ocean with both of my parents and my vovo (grandmother). This is RAturning HOME back to self, Back to family, back to wholeness. Ma’at✨⚖️✨ Eye am healing and leading simultaneously. Eye have taken the throne upon my head — Snt M Aust NfrKa Ht-Hru
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #HealingHealers #HealersHealing #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #NaturalBeauty #Family #selflove #Africa #Afraka #WestAfrica #islandlife #holistichealing #wellness #fullmoon #travellight #lunarenergy #Aust #SntMAust #shestoodeep
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Mentally preparing to escape the winter
Eye know that “going natural” is different for everyone but it pains me to see our story exploited without the courtesy of the honest representation of the DEPTH of WHY we are even needing to RAturn to our NaTuRal state.☀️ We can’t ignore the systemic presumption that European standards are supreme. This lie is still reaking havoc on the minds of millions of people today! We’ve forgotten who we are and our narrative in the hands of our enemy will always leave us wanting… we have to answer WHY and HOW it is that as a global people we’re the most exploited and impoverished yet spending billions on fake hair. In deed we need healing…. you can’t speak this truth without people feeling offended or as if you’re “judging” people for their personal decisions, but the truth hurts. It’s not a judgement but a fact that, collectively speaking, we have our values and priorities fucked up. It’s not personal, it’s political — whether we like it or not. #NothingButLove #FreeYourMind
Photo Credit: @prestonroundtree
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #WestAfrica #Afraka #Africana #Afrika #naturalhair #blackhair #afrohair #twa #bigchop #hairstory #hairjourney #travelnoire #growmyroots #ourhairstory #Praia #islandlife #nappyhair #throwback #flashback
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Over 5 years ago eye cut off my hair and decided to leave behind who eye thought eye was and what eye thought made me, to literally RAturn to my ROOTS! Cabo Verde is where eye started growing back my hair without any chemicals AT ALL — no shampoos, conditioners, just good ol aloe vera and authentic black Afrakan soap! That’s why my tips are golden and sunkissed without bleach. Eye moved back HOME and lived there with my love @prestonroundtree for a year of self exploration, clarity, research, transformation and RAjuvenation! It was not easy, but it is thee experience that catapulted me into myself, my purpose and DESTINY! Been back building the future with my father and looking forward to spending the winter in CV☀️✨ Love always to my heart @prestonroundtree for capturing all of these photos!
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#HightopsandHeels #HTxH #CaboVerde #CapeVerde #WestAfrica #Afraka #Africana #Afrika #naturalhair #blackhair #afrohair #twa #bigchop #hairstory #hairjourney #travelnoire #growmyroots #ourhairstory #coconuttree #Praia #islandlife #nappyhair #throwback #flashback
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