Guinea Bissau Prepares To Launch its "Decade of Return" Initiative: Report of the President of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Mission To Guinea Bissau

“Our ancestors saw in a vision that one day this thing will happen. This is an open door that people will come. And when the Balanta come there has a people that will take them saying, ‘this is your people’.” - Alante Ndang Elder to Brassa Mada (Siphiwe Baleka) at the Bam’fada Council in Bairro, Militar, January 15, 2020

The following is my report, as President of the Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America, detailing the historic events of my visit to Guinea Bissau from January 10th to the 17th, 2020.

Before I even left for Guinea Bissau, the country was preparing for my visit. It was reported in RPT Noticias and several Guinea Bissau blogs.

I departed from Springfield, MO at about 11:30 am and flew to Denver, then to London, then to Lisbon and finally to Bissau. In total, the trip took 33 hours with a few hour layover in each city. I didn’t sleep much so I was exhausted when I arrived at about 1:30 am Friday morning, January 10th. My host, translator and Balanta brother Mario Ceesay explained to me that before we could leave the airport, the Alante Ndang (initiated elder) needed to ask the ancestors to bless my journey and make it successful. I was presented with the traditional Pano di pinte (painted cloth) and a bushel of rice symbolizing prosperity.

The following morning at the Hotel Imperio, there was a press conference where I met with the Minister of Tourism, Catarina Taborda, and explained to her a plan to launch Guinea Bissau’s “Decade of Return” Initiative.

Development Program for Ministry of Tourism

1.      WE ARE UNITING THE PEOPLE OF BALANTA DESCENT IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

From 1668 to 1829, 145,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port at St. Louis, Senegal. From 1668 to 1843, 126,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port of Bissau on the coast of modern-day Guinea Bissau, West Africa. These are the lands were Balanta people were living. From these two slave trading ports, 6,400 people were brought to the Gulf Coast, 10,000 people were brought to the port at Charleston, South Carolina, 4,500 people were brought to Chesapeake, and 1,400 people were brought to New York. Based on records from slave voyages and the 2,054 voyages that departed from the three rivers area of the Balanta homelands in Guinea Bissau, BBHAGSIA estimates that 10,000 Balanta have been identified by the African Ancestry test and that there are a minimum of 30,000 Balanta descendants in the United States of America. In addition, 85,800 people were brought to the Islands of the West Indies and even more to Brazil. With the success of our efforts in the United States, we will help the descendants of Balanta in those areas as well.

2.      WE ARE SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TWENTY OTHER ETHINC GROUPS

If you include Baga, Banhun, Biafada, Bijago, Bissau, Cacheu, Cassanga, Floup, Jola, Manjaco, Nalu, Papel, Sape, Bambara, Fula, Gabu, Geba, Jalonke, Mandika and Mouro, it is estimated that there are as much as 500,000 people who are descendants of people taken from the ports of Ziguinchor, Cacheu, Bissau, Geba, St. Louis (Senegal). There are even more such people in the Caribbean Islands and in Brazil. We will show them how we organized ourselves and create a Descendants of the People of Guinea Bissau Council to serve as a coordinating body to work with the Guinea Bissau Ministry of Tourism.

3.       WE HAVE A PLAN FOR GUINEA BISSAU “YEAR/DECADE OF RETURN”

Countries such as Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Gabon and Benin are receiving a tremendous amount of positive international publicity for their “Year of Return” initiatives. These countries are embracing their lost ancestors, sons and daughters and providing culture and heritage opportunities. In some cases, passports and citizenship are being offered. Ghana has seen tourism increase by 25% and has generated hundreds of millions of dollars. We believe that Guinea Bissau can benefit as well.

4.       HUMAN CENTERD FOCUS

Guinea Bissau can set an example for the rest of Africa by focusing on human development first from which economic development will follow as a natural by-product. Since the earliest repatriation programs in 1796 to Sierra Leone until today, the focus has always been on the economic benefits and the possibility for “civilizing” and “Christianizing” Africa. Media reports about the Year of Return focus on the potential revenue from cultural/heritage tourism as well business investment. Very little concern is shown for the actual people who are returning who have suffered the effects of the trans-Atlantic trafficking of African people and their enslavement for as much as seven generations. Due to the recent advent of genetic testing, people are discovering their ancestral identity that was taken from them. As a result, people know exactly where in Africa they came from and the people they descend from. Guinea Bissau can encourage such people to come and reconnect with their ancestral communities – Balanta with Balanta, Djola with Djola, Fula with Fula, etc. When these connections are made, the bonds restored, and the spiritual and social “repairing” of the people and the communities happen, then people-centered development will lead to economic development that is supported by the communities themselves. In this way, the returnees become part of the local communities and not a separate community amongst themselves which could lead to misunderstandings and conflicts.

5.      Unity for Guinea Bissau People

It will be important for the people of Guinea Bissau to understand and be sensitive to the fact that for people who are discovering who their ancestors are after several generations, there is a profound sense of fulfillment. This expresses itself as pride in one’s ancestors and ethnicity. The people of Guinea Bissau will need to understand that such expressions of ethnic pride is in no way a form of tribalism or xenophobia. For our part, we must understand that Amilcar Cabral required that all ethnic groups become one people for the sake of Guinea Bissau.  We aim to show this by forming a Descendants of the People of Guinea Bissau Council that will include Balanta, Nalu, Bijago, Fula, Mandinka, etc. – all the ethnic groups of Guinea Bissau, and plan our travel tours together, so that we arrive in Guinea Bissau as one people before we go and visit our ethnic communities.

6.      GUINEA BISSAU MARKETING ADVANTAGE

Ghana has successfully marketed its “Door of No Return” as the symbol and location of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, if one wants to return to where the trans-Atlantic slave trade began and learn the origin, then one must come to Guinea Bissau. In addition, unlike some countries that received their independence from their colonial masters as a “grant”, the people of Guinea Bissau fought and won a war of liberation. Therefore, ALL people of African descent will desire to come to Guinea Bissau.

VISIT TO TCHOKMON

We drove a few hours north of Bissau between Nhacra and Bissora to a Balanta Village called Tchokman. Mario explained to me that this village supplied many of the Balanta fighters during their liberation war against the Portuguese. After the war, for various reasons, the village, and many other Balanta villages, where left out of development programs. Because Balanta people did not desire to “integrate” with the outside world, they didn’t develop such contacts, and many students, unable to go to high school or college, discontinued their education. Going to school abroad just wasn’t an option.

Upon my arrival, we explored a little and visited one household with a small cassava farm. Then we sat under a big tree and awaited for the village meeting to start and I just watched all the comings and goings in the village. I pulled out on of Sansou Tchimna’s Balanta B’rassa Basic Word List books and started counting in B’rassa and this broke the ice. Next thing I know, the older boys seized the book and started studying it all together! It was an amazing moment to see how eager they were to read and pronounce every single word.

Eventually, the meeting started. An Alante Ndang Elder that accompanied me and Mario explained to the village meeting who I was and my purpose for visiting. I explained to them how Balanta people were captured in the slave trade and that now we are coming back. They explained to me about life in the village. I asked them what are the priority needs and a male elder and a female elder both described the situation with the well. The women spend all day going to and from doing work, often carrying baskets on their heads. They are tired. When they need water for cooking or cleaning, they most go to the well and pull a bucket 30 meters! They would like to get solar panels, attach them to a pump and taps, so that they can get water easily. They also described the situation when a person in the village becomes ill. There is no health clinic in the area so the residents must bring the sick person to the nearest town which is about a 30 minute bicycle ride. Often, the sick person is not able to be transported on the back of a bicycle and sometimes they might have to wait for transportation. In the meantime, the sickness gets worse while simply waiting. So they would also like a basic health clinic in the village.

One of the things that struck me was how the boys that are my sons age were responsible for the cattle. In the early evening they entered the village together with the cattle and I thought to myself, “wow, they have a job, they have responsibility, they have the freedom to move around the village. I don’t let my sons go out of the yard and they stay inside most of the day watching videos and playing video games!” The whole village was functioning in groups - young boys over here, young girls over there, old men doing this, women doing that…. While there was activity everywhere, there was peace and harmony. This was the exact opposite of the “security situation” that the international community was always reporting about and for which the United States has issued a travel advisory warning Americans not to go to Guinea Bissau. Nothing could be further from the truth. I could see how colorless (white) Americans might be afraid, but if you are black, there is nothing to fear at all. I have been to seven countries in Africa and a total of 40 countries all over the world and the people of Guinea Bissau are the most loving and welcoming people I have ever met!

VISIT TO CACHEU

The next day we drove a few hours to Cacheu, one of the earliest European colonial settlements in sub-Saharan Africa, due to its strategic location on the Cacheu river. The name is of Bainuk origin: "i.e. Caticheu, meaning 'the place where we rest'." The Portuguese built a fort there in the 16th century. In September of 2016, the Memoria da Escratura (Slave Memorial) Museum was opened. From 1668 to 1843, 126,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port of Cacheu, many of them Balanta. This is the most likely place that my great, great, great, great, great grandfather last saw his homeland. In the future, I hope to be able to determine the ship that he was carried on, and help others determine the same. I discussed this and research opportunities for members of the Balanta B’urassa History & Genealogy Society in America with the Mayor of Cacheu, it’s Parliamentary Representative, and the Slave Museum Director, who accompanied me while exploring the Museum and Fort. The local newspaper and radio also did an interview.

I had to take a private moment and try to wrap my brain around the fact that my great, great, great, great, great grandfather was just a boy when they chained him and put him on the ship. What was he thinking as the boat left the harbor?What kind of horror was he filled with. I broke out in tears. It was a painful moment.

Concluding that his last thought was to jump out of the boat and swim back to his home, I honored him be swimming from west to eat in the river. Then, I swam from east to west in the river to symbolize returning to America to get my family like Harriet Tubman..

The Slave Fort at Cacheu

The place where the slaves were held

Swimming back to my Balanta homeland

May my great, great, great, great, great grandfather rest in peace!

Strangely, and thankfully, during the entire time while I was exploring the slave fort, I heard drumming in the distance. I followed the call of the drum. I needed it. I was feeling sad, but the drums were making me feel better. Click here to see what I found.

MINISTER OF SPORT

In the morning, I went to the Palacio do Governo in my capacity as the African Sports Ventures Group (ASVG) North America Regional Director to meet with the Guinea Bissau Minister of Sport Mr. Dionisio Pereira to discuss ASVG’s program to bring African American professional athletes to their ancestral homelands during the “Decade of Return”. The Minister agreed to write a letter of special invitation to a legendary multiple Olympic champion who happens to have Balanta ancestry to join our group during our Africa Day 2020 Tour to Senegal and Guinea Bissau. Once I receive the invitation letter, deliver it to the athlete, and confirm acceptance, I will announce who it is. I can’t wait.

After that meeting, I had the opportunity to go to teach the Research Methodology class at the Universidade Lusofona de Guine and meet with the University President to discuss teaching opportunities at the university. It was a remarkable moment. The students were amazing!

NETOS DE BANDIM

After all the meetings, we made our way to Netos De Bandim. I was told that a cultural group wanted to welcome me. I had no idea what would come next.

Escola Nacional de Administration (ENA)

The next morning we headed to the Escola Nacional de Administration (ENA) which is like a business school. Their mission is to train professional administrators who are not politicians to run the country in a professional manor. The school Director, Braima Sanha, a man of outstanding vision and talent, taught me about the school’s history and struggle. Various governments in Guinea Bissau history have not supported the school. Strangely, they have a wonderful modern facility with computer equipment that has great capacity but is under utilized. At the moment, they have computers but inadequate internet capability, so they need high powered routers. They are sending me a detailed list of equipment needs.

National Research Institute (INEP)

After meeting with the Escola Nacional de Administracao (ENA) we headed to the National Research Institute (INEP) to meet with INEP Director Joa Paulo, and Dr. Raul Fernandez, Vice-Director da Universidade Amilcar Cabral to discuss the project to translate all three volumes of my history of the Balanta called Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain. We also discussed the future research agenda for the study of the descendants of the people of Guinea Bissau who were captured and enslaved across the Atlantic. I handed Dr. Paulo an official copy of my Balanta ancestry documentation from African Ancestry.

The visit with INEP culminated with a meeting with  Dr. Fode Mane, Director da Universidade Amilcar Cabral. I was honored with an Amilcar Cabral scarf.

To celebrate we went to eat at Mama Lu’s (that’s what I call her). The food is delicious.

Jardim Infantil Nhima Sanha School

Across the street from Mama Lu’s restaurant is the Jardim Infantil Nhima Sanha school. It has just 8 classrooms for three hundred children and no modern plumbing so they are constantly cleaning the bathroom. The teachers and staff and kids are amazing. Funding from donor agencies in America has been ongoing for five years but none of it has reached the school.... 

Bam’Fada

That night, a group of Balanta lawyers and judges on the High Court came to strategize on national Balanta development. I explained to them our vision of human-centered development based on ancestry and we all agreed that their existing organization work to unite all Balanta in the north, south, east and west under the name Bam’Fada which means “Children of the same father”.

The next morning, we headed over to Bombolom Radio to talk to the people of Guinea Bissau

MINISTER OF CULTURE

After Radio Bombolom, we met with Secretaria de Estado da Culture (Minister of Culture) Dr. Antonio Spencer Embalo to discuss our upcoming Africa Day 2020 Tour to Senegal and Guinea Bissau May 25 - June 2 and the country’s plans to receive us and launch Guinea Bissau’s Decade of Return initiative. The focus is on human connection and using ancestry and culture as the basis of creating strong bonds among people as a prerequisite for successful long-term development that prioritizes communities that lack access to traditional modern institutional resources. Specific details of working relationships and projects were agreed to, especially concerning language preservation. They are very excited about what the Balanta community is doing and hopes that all the ethnic groups can follow this model and work together.

Immediately after the meeting with the Secretary of Culture, we interviewed with Fatima Tchuma Camara of Sindicato National Dos Jornalistas e Tecnicis da Comunicado Social SINJOTECS

Balante Ndang Council in Bairro Militar, Bissau

The big moment when the B’alante N’dang (big men who have been through the Fanado initiation) of the north, south, east and west gathered together for me to stand before them. This was the first time the full council has gathered like this to receive someone. The occasion was historic and momentous. For the better part of two hours I had to literally stand while addressing them. I thanked the ancestors. I told them my family history. I told them about the ancient history of the Balanta ancestors. I told them the work we are doing to organize Balanta in America. The members of the Bam’fada (the Balanta administrators for our development initiative) explained our plans and how we have worked out logistics). The council has given us their unanimous support and agreed this is a historic moment and new chapter in Binham Brassa history.

“Our ancestors saw in a vision that one day this thing will happen. This is an open door that people will come. And when the Balanta come there has a people that will take them saying, ‘this is your people’.” - Alante Ndang Elder to Brassa Mada (Siphiwe Baleka) at the Bam’fada Council in Bairro, Militar, January 15, 2020

I also managed a lunch with E. Rose Custis, Cultural Affairs Officer at the Embassy of the United States of America for Senegal and Guinea Bissau, and breakfast with Nancy Robinson, Senior Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea Bissau.

On the last day, we started the morning with an interview Carlos Amadou Balde for O Golo GB. They have been supporting me ever since I competed in the 1st Masters Swimming International Championships in Cairo, Egypt last October. In the interview, I leaked information about my opportunity to swim in this summer’s Olympics representing Guinea Bissau. You can watch the interview here.

Sapo Desporto also reported on my visit in their media:

The day and the entire tour was exhausting, but I was blessed to have the legendary Balanta revolutionary musician, Domingos Broksa, come to the hotel and soothe my soul with his music, composing a song to document my visit.

The day and the tour was not yet over. I had one more live interview on the national tv station TGB Televisão da Guiné-Bissau and following that a final interview for RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Africa. Only then did I head to the airport to return to the United States.

Now that I have returned, I am working on all the follow-up and preparing a completed Development Agenda for 2020 including specific fundraising platforms for each project. We are still $300 short of the $1500 for our first project, so please donate so we can finish what we started.

Overall, the mission was a tremendous success and Guinea Bissau - its people and institutions, are all preparing the homecoming scheduled for May 31- to June 2. If you would like to join us for our Africa Day 2020 Tour to Senegal and Guinea Bissau, please click the link and register. This is going to be an amazing event to launch Guinea Bissau’s Decade of Return.

THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE IS COMPELLING FORCE: REPARATIONS AND #ADOS

Recently, Adrian Barrett post the following in response to the New York Times article about the #ADOS movement entitled, “We’re Self-Interested": The Growing Identity Debate in Black America”:

“A spirited debate is playing out in black communities across America over the degree to which identity ought to be defined by African heritage — or whether ancestral links to slavery are what should count most of all.

Tensions between black Americans who descended from slavery and black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are not new, but a group of online agitators is trying to turn those disagreements into a political movement.

They want colleges, employers and the federal government to prioritize black Americans whose ancestors toiled in bondage, and they argue that affirmative action policies originally designed to help the descendants of slavery in America have largely been used to benefit other groups, including immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.”

In response to several divisive comments made by descendants of people taken from Africa and enslaved in the Americas, I made the following comment:

“As we discussed earlier, #ADOS has been trained to exploit [black people’s] righteous indignation. That’s the game plan. Unfortunately, [most black people] have not been educated about the people behind #ADOS and their long history. Such brothers and sisters, not knowing what’s going on behind the scenes, will view any attack on #ADOS as an attack against their interests. This is why the divisions deepen. We all agree that making specific jurisdictional claims to win reparations is a necessary tactic. However, to do so and make other African people the scapegoats is precisely the work of the hands behind #ADOS. To ignore that makes any defense of ADOS complicit with the white supremacists. It’s all rather unfortunate. All brothers and sisters fighting in their specific jurisdictions are comrades and #ADOS would do well to support them in a United Front. Anything less is a victory for COINTELPRO. The Pan Africanists are not against [their own people]. Why should [any of their own people] be against Pan Africanists? The real enemy is the one who uses power against you. African immigrants have no power. Don’t let misguided elements of #ADOS distract from the real enemy. . . .

The essential point is this: the current world order is run according to COMPELLING FORCE. Now, who among us has enough COMPELLING FORCE to COMPEL the system of white supremacy to submit to our interest? Come on - which group? Jamaicans? African Americans? New Orleanians? Afro Cubans? Temne? Balanta? Nigeria? South Africa? Ghana? ....when you stop all the nonsense you are talking, you will realize that if any one group had enough COMPELLING FORCE to safeguard its interest, IT WOULD ALREADY HAVE DONE SO. So, when you all are finished with petty emotionalism and how you feel about it, and either return to or come up to both a common and scientific understanding of the COMPELLING FORCE of white supremacy used against ALL of us, then you will realize that the reason why we come together and forget all the distinctions between us is because of the overriding imperative to develop enough COMPELLING FORCE to effectively oppose white supremacy and all the nations it has built. Malcolm X already schooled everyone.”

Today, because of genetic testing through African Ancestry, we know from which people we come from in Africa. For example, my paternal ancestry is 100% Balanta and my maternal ancestry is 99.2% Yoruba.

In order to provide a proper context to settle all the debates around #ADOS, I now give the context in which the debate should be considered.

First, it is necessary to understand the pre-history of #ADOS. For starters, watch this video:

The following articles will give you the background history:

ADOS Its origins, troublesome ties and fears it's dividing Black folk in the fight for reparations

WHAT'S BEHIND A 'BLACK' ANTI-IMMIGRATION GROUP

Black American Leadership Alliance Mobilizing Against Immigration Reform

Anti-Immigrant Front Groups Used in Fight Against Immigration Reform

Once you have read those articles, then you can understand the following:

1. #ADOS co-founder Yvette Carnell has been trained by and sits on the board of directors for the white supremacist group that has engineered the anit-immigration movement in the United States.

2. There’s a reason strong medicine is coated with sugar. #ADOS was professionally trained to wrap the anti-immigration agenda in a coating that black people would support (I.e “reparations”) so that anti-immigration politicians can get elected. Black people support for reparations is being used and #ADOS supporters don’t see the complexities behind it because nine times out of ten we just run with emotionalism.

However, there’s a much deeper, darker history behind #ADOS and it all goes back to a prophecy by Marcus Garvey in 1922.

MARCUS GARVEY PROPHESIED 9-11 AND THE LINGERING EFFECTS ON #ADOS

(Excerpt from the book Come Out Of Her My People! 21st Century Black Prophetic Faith and Pan African Diplomacy)

"In 1922, Marcus Garvey made this startling prophecy in his Solution for World Peace:

"We hear a great deal of talk about world peace today. Wilson of America, Lloyd George of England, Clemenceau of France a few years ago prophesied at Versailles a reign of peace. Up to the present many of the leading statesmen of the world have pledged themselves to a program of world peace. Many conferences have been held (political as well as industrial) for the purpose of settling the question of peace; but up to now none of them has laid the foundation for a real peace, for a lasting peace. The peace of the world cannot be settled by political conferences, or by industrial conferences only. If we are to have a world peace it will only come when a great inter-racial, conference is called.

When Jew will meet Gentile; when Anglo-Saxon will meet Teuton; when the great Caucasian family will meet the Mongolian, and when all will meet the Negro, and then and there straighten out the differences that have kept us apart for hundreds of years, and will continue to keep us apart until Doom's Day, if something is not done to create better racial understanding."

Marcus Garvey's prophecy about a great inter-racial conference came true in late August 2001 at the convening of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa. On September 3, 2001, 18,810 delegates from 170 countries, 16 heads of state, 58 foreign ministers, 44 ministers, 7,000 non-governmental representatives, and 1,300 journalists attending the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR)

declared that "slavery, and the slave trade, including the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, were appalling tragedies in the history of humanity not only because of their abhorrent barbarism but also in terms of their magnitude, organized nature [and] especially their negation of the essence of the victims . . . [and] that slavery and the slave trade are a crime against humanity..."

At the conference, on September 2, 2001, in a meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney presented Robinson with two documents as evidence of the US governments violations of both US and international law and, in particular, specific violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The first document given to Robinson was a confidential memorandum 46, written by National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski on March 17, 1978 and it details the federal government's plan to destroy functioning black leadership in the United States. This document provides a critical insight into the federal government's concern at the apparent growing influence of the African American political movement. The second document is a report entitled "Human Rights in the United States [The Unfinished Story - Current Political Prisoners - Victims of COINTELPRO]" and it was compiled by the Human Rights Research Fund, headed by Kathleen Cleaver. This document provides an overview of the counterintelligence program which, from the 1950s to the 1980s, was run in the United States against political activists and targeted organizations.

"From as early as the 1950's and right up until the 1980's the US government directed the machinery of state against the African American political movement and, in so doing, effectively put an end to the civil rights movement inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King. COINTELPRO was in clear violation of the US Constitution and a wide range of US laws, as well as, in clear breach of internationally accepted standards for human rights and fundamental freedoms. That our government would turn its full resources against its own law-abiding citizens is unforgivable and ranks us among those rogue nations of the world who have chosen to kill hope and sow misery in its place," stated McKinney.

Marcus Garvey words come to pass.

Now, we need to back up and understand the CONTEXT OF THE CURRENT REPARATIONS MOVEMENT.

The issue today isn't about knowing the history or how much debt is owed. The issue is about the amount of COMPELLING FORCE. Why? The answer was given to the world on October 4, 1963, when His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of Judah addressed the United Nations and said,

“Yet, this is the ultimatum presented to us: secure the conditions whereby men will entrust their security to a larger entity, or risk annihilation; persuade men that their salvation rests in the subordination of national and local interests to the interests of humanity, or endanger man's future. These are the objectives, yesterday unobtainable, today essential, which we must labor to achieve.

Until this is accomplished, mankind's future remains hazardous and permanent peace a matter for speculation. . . . .The goal of the equality of man which we seek is the antithesis of the exploitation of one people by another with which the pages of history and in particular those written of the African and Asian continents, speak at such length. Exploitation, thus viewed, has many faces. But whatever guise it assumes, this evil is to be shunned where it does not exist and crushed where it does. . . .

that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned;

that until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation;

that until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes;

that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race;

that until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained. . . .

What this means is that THE WORLD IS CURRENTLY RULED BY FORCE, BY THE DOCTRINE OF ‘MIGHT MAKES RIGHT’ and the nations of the world, the leaders of the world, can not be trusted to act with moral virtue, particularly when it comes to people of African ancestry.

Thus, Reparations will not be won be any appeal to international morality and common decency and respect for the human rights of the descendants of people taken from African and enslaved. Legal appeals which are essentially appeals to MORAL VIRTUE and INTERNATIONAL MORALITY do not have enough COMPELLING FORCE.

In the book, The Wealth of Races: The Present Value of Benefits from Past Injustices edited by Richard F. America, William Darity, Jr writes:

"The later 1960s and early 1970s - a period of great social activism and ferment in the United States -witnessed a surge in calls from black Americans for reparations. . . . The rationale was twofold. First was a 'moral justification deriving .... from the debt owed to Blacks for the centuries of unpaid slave labor which build so much of the early American economy, and from the discriminatory wage and employment patterns to which Blacks were subjected after emancipation.' Second was a justification based on 'national self-interest' . [Robert S. Browne, director and founder of the Black Economic Research Center] perception that such 'gross inequalities' in the distribution of wealth would only further aggravate social tensions between black and whites.

Apparently, neither justification subsequently has proved COMPELLING for American legislators. No scheme of reparations of the type Browne advocated [wealth transfers] ever has been adopted in the United States."

What's important to understand, then, is that it is not for lack of knowing the history and legacy of the slave trade nor any lack of calculating the debt owed that has prevented reparations. In fact, the National Economic Association, the professional organization of black economists, from 1981 to 1985, addressed all of the issues and calculated the costs. Ransom and Such (1990) calculated that the profits of the slave system from 1806 to 1860 compounded to 1983 came to $3.4 billion. The present value of that sum compounded to the present at an annual interest rate of 5 percent is $9.12 billion. Larry Neal (1990) derived an estimate of $1.4 trillion based on the gap between the wage an enslaved African would have received had he or shebeen a free laborer and what was spent on slave maintenance by slave-owners between 1620 and 1840. Again, compounding the interest to the present at 5 percent interest yields a total close to $4 trillion by the end of 2004. James Marketti (1990) utilized a concept of income diverted from enslaved Africans during the course of slavery in the United States to arrive at a figure of $2.1 trillion by 1983.The present value after compounding the interest is $6 trillion. If you use the "40 acres and a mule" from General Sherman's Special Orders No. 15 for a family of four, then, a conservative estimate of the price of land in 1865 is $10 per acre. A conservative estimate of the total number of ex-slaves at the time of emancipation is 4 million which would yield 40 million acres of land valued at $400 million should have been distributed to the ex-slaves in 1865. The present value of that sum of money compounded from 1865 at 6% would amount to $1.3 trillion. If there are approximately 30 million descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States today, the estimate based on 40 acres yields an allocation of slightly more than $400,000 per recipient. Chachere and Udinskly (1990) estimate that the gains to whites from labor market discrimination during the period 1929-1969 to be $1.6 trillion.By the year 2000, Joe R. Feagin in his paper Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation and Contemporary Discrimination concluded that "Clearly, the sum total of the worth of all the black labor stolen by whites through the means of slavery, segregation, and contemporary discrimination...taking into account lost interest over time and putting it in today's dollars, is perhaps in the range of $5 to $24 trillion."

Now, according to Walter Olson in his article, "So Long, Slavery Reparations" published in the LA Times in 2008,

"Just a few years ago, at roughly the turn of the millennium, slavery reparations seemed the coming thing. A New York Times article in June 2001 reported that the movement to obtain compensation for slaves’ descendants had “taken on substantial force” and was “gaining steam” both in the nation’s universities and in the black community.

All the major black organizations had signed on, including the NAACP, the Urban League and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Randall Robinson’s book, “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks,” had hit the bestseller lists in 2000. Many state and local Democratic politicians started to talk up the idea.

Then: nothing. Today, reparations seem to have completely disappeared from the national agenda. Few mention them anymore. What happened? . . . .

In late 2000, a new project called the Reparations Assessment Group began making preparations for lawsuits. The dollar sums mentioned were staggering. Harper’s magazine estimated that it could require $97 trillion to pay for the hours of uncompensated work done during the slavery era, which would require extracting, on average, about $300,000 from every American of non-slave descent. So confident were reparationists of success that they began to map out how the court-ordered funds would be spent. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, broke this momentum with an abrupt jolt. It wasn’t just that for quite a few months thereafter Americans of all races preferred to discuss issues unrelated to reparations; it was also that some of the persistent themes that ran through those days, such as national unity, individual heroism, mutual dependence and the implications of mortality were at cross-purposes with the reparations narrative. According to LexisNexis, U.S. newspapers and wire services ran nearly 2,600 stories including the words “slavery” and “reparations” in the year leading up to 9/11. Since then, the yearly average has been less than 1,000."

NOW LETS GO BACK AND UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM AND THE 9-11 ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER JUST NINE DAYS AFTER...

On September 3, 2001, 18,810 delegates from 170 countries, 16 heads of state, 58 foreign ministers, 44 ministers, 7,000 non-governmental representatives, and 1,300 journalists attending the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR)

declared that "slavery, and the slave trade, including the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, were appalling tragedies in the history of humanity not only because of their abhorrent barbarism but also in terms of their magnitude, organized nature [and] especially their negation of the essence of the victims . . . [and] that slavery and the slave trade are a crime against humanity..."

Let me say it again: At the conference, on September 2, 2001, in a meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney presented Robinson with two documents as evidence of the US governments violations of both US and international law and, in particular, specific violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The first document given to Robinson was a confidential Memorandum 46, written by National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski on March 17, 1978 and it details the federal government's plan to destroy functioning black leadership in the United States. This document provides a critical insight into the federal government's concern at the apparent growing influence of the African American political movement. The second document is a report entitled "Human Rights in the United States [The Unfinished Story - Current Political Prisoners - Victims of COINTELPRO]" and it was compiled by the Human Rights Research Fund, headed by Kathleen Cleaver. This document provides an overview of the counterintelligence program which, from the 1950s to the 1980s, was run in the United States against political activists and targeted organizations. Rather than face these charges, the United States Government's delegation to WCAR walked out of the conference. Days later, the World Trade Center in New York was destroyed.

Read Memorandum 46, which is Exhibit 10 of U.S. Supreme Court Case No. 00-9587 (below) and then ask yourself the following questions:

1. Is #ADOS inhibiting coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States?

2. Is #ADOS generating mistrust and hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the Pan African forces?

3. Is #ADOS causing division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders?

4. Is #ADOS perpetuating division in the Black movement, atttacking the most active groups of leftist radical organizations representing different social strata of the Black community?

5. Is #ADOS movement working against the reemergence of Pan African ideals?

IF THE ANSWER IS YES TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, THEN #ADOS IS DOING THE WORK OF COINTELPRO BY FOLLOWING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF MEMORANDUM 46:

This Document is Exhibit 10 of U.S. Supreme Court Case No.00-9587

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEMORANDUM-46

MARCH 17, 1978

Presidential Review Memorandum NSCM/46
TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Director of Central Intelligence

SUBJECT: Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement

The President has directed that a comprehensive review be made of current developments in Black Africa from the point of view of their possible impacts on the black movement in the United States. The review should consider:

1. Long-term tendencies of social and political developments and the degree to which they are consistent with or contradict the U.S. interests.

2. Proposals for durable contacts between radical African leaders and leftist leaders of the U.S. black community.

3. Appropriate steps to be taken inside and outside the country in order to inhibit any pressure by radical African leaders and organizations on the U.S. black community for the latter to exert influence on the policy of the Administration toward Africa.

The President has directed that the NSC Interdepartmental Group for Africa perform this review. The review should be forwarded to the NSC Political Analysis Committee by April 20.

(signed)

Zbigniew Brezinski

cc: The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Commerce
The Attorney General
The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP
FOR AFRICA

STUDY RESPONSE TO PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY
REVIEW MEMORANDUM NSC-46
BLACK AFRICA AND THE
U.S. BLACK MOVEMENT

Objective of our policy toward Black Africa is to prevent social upheavals which could radically change the political situation throughout the area. The success or failure of our policy in the region depends on the solution international
and internal issues whose importance of the United States is on the increase.

II. A. U.S. INTERESTS IN BLACK AFRICA

A multiplicity of interests influences the U.S. attitude toward black Africa. The most important of these interests can be summarized as follows:

1. POLITICAL
If black African states assume attitudes hostile to the U.S. national interest, our policy toward the white regimes; which is a key element in our relations with the black states, may be subjected by the latter to great pressure for fundamental change. Thus the West may face a real danger of being deprived of access to the enormous raw material resources of southern Africa which are vital for our defense needs as well as losing control over the Cape sea routes by which approximately 65% of Middle Eastern oil is supplied to Western Europe.

Moreover, such a development may bring about internal political difficulties by intensifying the activity of the black movement in the United States itself.

It should also be borne in mind that black Africa is an integral part of a continent where tribal and regional discord, economic backwardness, inadequate infrastructures, drought, and famine, are constant features of the scene. In conjunction with the artificial borders imposed by the former colonial powers, guerilla warfare in Rhodesia and widespread indignation against apartheid in South Africa, the above factors provide the communist states with ample opportunities for furthering their aims. This must necessarily redound to the detriment of U.S. political interests.

2. ECONOMIC
Black Africa is increasingly becoming an outlet for U.S. exports and investment. The mineral resources of the area continue to be of great value for the normal functioning of industry in the United States and allied countries.In 1977, U.S. direct investment in black Africa totaled about $1.8 billion and exports $2.2 billion. New prospect of substantial profits would continue to develop in the countries concerned.

IV. BLACK AFRICA AND THE U.S. BLACK MOVEMENT

Apart from the above-mentioned factors adverse to U.S. strategic interests, the nationalist liberation movement in black Africa can act as a catalyst with far reaching effects on the American black community by stimulating its organizational consolidation and by inducing radical actions. Such a result would be likely as Zaire went the way of Angola and Mozambique.

An occurrence of the events of 1967-68 would do grievous harm to U.S. prestige, especially in view of the concern of the present Administration with human rights issues. Moreover, the Administration would have to take specific steps to stabilize the situation. Such steps might be misunderstood both inside and outside the United States.

In order to prevent such a trend and protect U.S. national security interests, it would appear essential to elaborate and carry out effective countermeasures.

1. Possibility of Joint Action By U.S. Black and African Nationalist Movement.

In elaborating U.S. policy toward black Africa, due weight must be given to the fact that there are 25 millions American blacks whose roots are African and who consciously or subconsciously sympathies with African nationalism.

The living conditions of the black population should also be taken into account. Immense advances in the field are accompanied by a long-lasting high rate of unemployment, especially among the youth and by poverty and dissatisfaction with government social welfare standards.

These factors taken together may provide a basis for joint actions of a concrete nature by the African nationalist movement and the U.S. black community. Basically, actions would take the form of demonstrations and public protests, but the likelihood of violence cannot be excluded. There would also be attempts to coordinate their political activity both locally and in international organizations.

Inside the United States these actions could include protest demonstrations against our policy toward South Africa accompanied by demand for boycotting corporations and banks which maintain links with that country; attempts to establish a permanent black lobby in Congress including activist leftist radical groups and black legislators; the reemergence of Pan-African ideals; resumption of protest marches recalling the days of Martin Luther King; renewal of the extremist idea national idea of establishing an "African Republic" on American soil. Finally, leftist radical elements of the black community could resume extremist actions in the style of the defunct Black Panther Party.

Internationally, damage could be done to the United States by coordinated activity of African states designed to condemn U.S. policytoward South Africa, and initiate discussions on the U.S. racial issue at the United Nations where the African representation constitutes a powerful bloc with about one third of all the votes.

A menace to U.S. economic interests, though not a critical one, could be posed by a boycott by Black African states against American companies which maintain contact with South Africa and Rhodesia. If the idea of economic assistance to black Americans shared by some African regimes could be realized by their placing orders in the United States mainly with companies owned by blacks, they could gain a limited influence on the U.S. black community.

In the above context, we must envisage the possibility, however remote, that black Americans interested in African affairs may refocus their attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taking into account; the African descent of American blacks it is reasonable to anticipate that their sympathies would lie with the Arabs who are closer to them in spirit and in some case related to them by blood. Black involvement in lobbying to support the Arabs may lead to serious dissention between American black and Jews. The likelihood of extremist actions by either side is negligible, but the discord may bring about tension in the internal political climate of the United States.

3. Political options

In the context of long-term strategy, the United States can not afford a radical change in the fundamentals of its African policy, which is designed for maximum protection of national security. In the present case, emphasis is laid on the importance of Black Africa for U.S. political, economic and military interests.

RECOMMENDATIONS

In weighing the range of U.S. interests in Black Africa, basic recommendations arranged without intent to imply priority are:

1. Specific steps should be taken with the help of appropriate government agencies to inhibit coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States.

2. Special clandestine operations should be launched by the CIA to generate mistrust and hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the two forces, and to cause division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders.

3. U.S. embassies to Black African countries specially interested in southern Africa must be highly circumspect in view of the activity of certain political circles and influential individuals opposing the objectives and methods of U.S. policy toward South Africa. It must be kept in mind that the failure of U.S. strategy in South Africa would adversely affect American standing throughout the world. In addition, this would mean a significant diminution of U.S. influence in Africa and the emergence of new difficulties in our internal situation due to worsening economic prospects.

4. The FBI should mount surveillance operations against Black African representatives and collect sensitive information on those, especially at the U.N., who oppose U.S. policy toward South Africa. The information should include facts on their links with the leaders of the Black movement in the United States, thus making possible at least partial neutralization of the adverse effects of their activity.

V. TRENDS IN THE AMERICAN BLACK MOVEMENT

In connection with our African policy, it is highly important to evaluate correctly the present state of the Black movement in the Untied States and basing ourselves on all available information, to try to devise a course for its future development. Such an approach is strongly suggested by our perception of the fact that American Blacks form a single ethnic group potentially capable of causing extreme instability in our strategy toward South Africa. This may lead to critical differences between the United States and Black Africa in particular. It would also encourage the Soviet Union to step up its interference in the region. Finally, it would pose a serious threat to the delicate structure of race relations within the United States. All the above considerations give rise to concern for the future security of the United States.

Since the mid-1960s, when legislation on the human rights was passed and Martin Luther King murdered, federal and local measures to improve black welfare have been taken, as a result of which the U.S. black movement has undergone considerable changes.

The principle changes are as follows:

*Social and economic issues have supplanted political aims as the main preoccupations of the movement. and actions formerly planned on a nationwide scale are now being organized locally.

*Fragmentation and a lack of organizational unity within the movement.

*Sharp social stratification of the Black population and lack of policy options which could reunite them.

*Want of a national leader of standing comparable to Martin Luther King.

B. THE RANGE OF POLICY OPTIONS

The concern for the future security of the United States makes necessary the range of policy options. Arranged without intent imply priority they are:

(a) to enlarge programs, within the framework of the present budget, for the improvement of the social and economic welfare of American Blacks in order to ensure continuing development of present trends in the Black movement;

(b) to elaborate and bring into effect a special program designed to perpetuate division in the Black movement and neutralize the most active groups of leftist radical organizations representing different social strata of the Black community: to encourage division in Black circles;

(c) to preserve the present climate which inhibits the emergence from within the Black leadership of a person capable of exerting nationwide appeal;

(d) to work out and realize preventive operations in order to impede durable ties between U.S Black organizations and radical groups in African states;

(e) to support actions designed to sharpen social stratification in the Black community which would lead to the widening and perpetuation of the gap between successful educated Blacks and the poor, giving rise to growing antagonism between different Black groups and a weakening of the movement as a whole.

(f) to facilitate the greatest possible expansion of Black business by granting government contracts and loans with favorable terms to Black businessmen;

(g) to take every possible means through the AFL-CIO leaders to counteract the increasing influence of Black labor organizations which function in all major unions and in particular, the National Coalition of Black Trade Union and its leadership including the creation of real preference for adverse and hostile reaction among White trade unionists to demands for improvement of social and economic welfare of the Blacks;

(h) to support the nomination at federal and local levels of loyal Black public figures to elective offices, to government agencies and the Court.

This would promote the achievement of a twofold purpose:

first, it would be easier to control the activity of loyal black representatives within existing institution;

second, the idea of an independent black political party now under discussion within black leadership circles would soon lose all support.

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Come Out Of Her My People! 21st Century Black Prophetic Faith and Pan African Diplomacy

Below is Rev Jesse Peterson, a member of Choose Black America, an organization of African Americans who oppose illegal immigration to the United States.[4] He is a member of the advisory board of Project 21, a conservative African American organization. He serves on the national advisory board of right-wing group Accuracy in Media, and is a former board member of the California Christian Coalition. In May 2006, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), one of the country's oldest, largest, and richest anti-immigration organizations -- and one with a number of links, including past funding, to white supremacist groups -- organized a press conference to announce the formation of Choose Black America, a new FAIR front group designed to rally black Americans against Hispanic immigration. For the event, FAIR paid to fly 10 black academics, economists, members of the clergy and activists from around the country to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. They claimed to represent "the vast majority of American blacks who believe that amnesty for illegal aliens would be devastating to their communities." These are the people behind #ADOS. Yvette Carnal is a board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR)..

CRITICAL AFRICAN ANCESTRY STUDIES & BALANTA LITERATURE: A REVIEW OF 13 BARS OF IRON BY MALIK K. YARBOROUGH

“Africa was robbed, and the people that were taken were robbed, robbed of our names, language, culture, and any knowledge of who we were and where we came from. All that stripped, taken from us. It affects how we perceive ourselves and consequently consciously and subconsciously affects all our actions. Like that shit you hit me with, you being, what you say, Balanta? See, that’s dope as hell you know that shit. We don’t know what the hell we are besides black and the descendants of slaves. That’s where our identity begins. I like those Balanta though. Y’all kicked them peckerwoods ass, huh? I think I am one of y’all, man. I think I’m Balanta, too, my dude. I know I would a fought back. I would a been one who resisted, too.” - Cal, 13 Bars of Iron

From the title and the cover of the book, one would think that this is a typical story of a young black dude from the hood, with hood loves and hood problems, who eventually ends up behind bars. Well, it is….and it isn’t. The book’s title is actually a reference to the purchase price of slaves that departed through The Door of No Return:

“The iron was used as a form of currency. This was a commodity heavily featured in the slave trade. What you are looking at was the price of one adult male slave, 13 bars of iron. The Europeans traded iron to West Africans in this region and in return they received slaves. Iron was rare and expensive for those who lived in the coastal lands. It had to be imported from the interior of the continent, which was costly and difficult.Most of the crops produced by coastal societies prior to the slave trade were those that did not require complex tools like the ones made of iron or intensive labor, crops, such as sweet potatoes. These crops were cultivated with stone and wooden tools. The slave trade made iron more readily available in these areas; it introduced iron in larger quantities and made cultivation crops, such as rice, much easier. Rice produced larger yields and fed more people. It could also be stored for very long periods of time. Rice eventually began to emerge as a primary staple. Once this happened, it increased the demand for iron, and thus the demand for slaves.. This helped to perpetuate the slave trade. The acquisition of larger quantities of iron was a very short-sighted gain, however.”

Thus Calvin, “Cal”, the main character of 13 Bars of Iron, begins to learn about the history and experiences of his ancestors while navigating life in and around St. Louis, Missouri. Similarly, black people in America are going through the same learning process as more and more people are taking genetic tests to determine their African ancestry. The results often provoke a reading, or re-reading of African history with a focus on a specific people. Previously, without the genetic confirmation of one’s ancestral lineage, such study was unfocused and general. It was “African” studies. Imagine a descendant of the Hugenot, reading European history, and identifying with the Catholic Kings of Portugal. That is exactly the kind of confusion that exists, for example, among descendants of the Balanta, who, not knowing of their Balanta ancestry, yet having been fed a diet of “African” studies which focus on the “great” kingdoms of West Africa, identify with the Kingdom of Mali and leaders such as Mansu Musa who were the very oppressors of the Balanta. Such a general reading of African history could only help the descendants of slaves’ quest for identity reach so far. Now, new discovery of genetic ancestry identity is opening up new areas of study in history, psychology, and literature. It is not a random or coincidence that Cal says, “I think I am Balanta.” In fact the author of 13 Bars of Iron deliberately connected Cal to Balanta because of the author’s own DNA test results connected him to his Balanta ancestors. Thus, the new genetic technology has expressed itself in the novel. The explanation of the 13 bars of iron and growing rice is actual Balanta history.

What is interesting is considering the Balanta cultural survivals in 13 Bars of Iron and how reading and interpreting literature can be informed by the new genetic ancestry connection. For example, by applying the 26 Principles of the Great Belief of the Balanta Ancient Ancestors, Cal’s behavior is given a new, deeper meaning.

INTERPRETING 13 BARS OF IRON MAJOR THEMES FROM A BALANTA PERSPECTIVE.

“As a kid, I always felt as if I was destined for greatness. My mom once told me that, on the day I was born, the lady she shared a hospital room with looked at me and told her that I was going to be someone very special. She didn’t say it in the way that a person looks at a baby and says, he or she is cute just to be polite. But she stated it as if God was informing her of this directly. I felt that way about myself. I always felt like I had a mission and a definite purpose for being. I had spent much of my childhood waiting for this purpose to reveal itself.”

This sense of duty is a prominent feature of the original ancient Balanta spirituality. Principle 25 of the Great Belief of the Balanta Ancient Ancestors states,

“The notion of duty: The individual knows what his moral and legal obligations are and that they are to be honored on pain of losing his vital force. He knows that to carry out his duty will enhance the quality of his being. As a member of the clan, the ‘muntu’ knows that by living in accordance with his vital rank in the clan, he can and should contribute to the maintenance and increase of the clan by the normal exercise of his favorable vital influence. He knows his clan duties He knows, too, his duties towards other clans.”

From the very first pages of the books, Yarborough, through Cal, either consciously or unconsciously expressed this most important of Balanta epistemology. This sense of duty will figure prominently at the end of the book, where Cal experiences a crisis of conscience.

However, the obvious main theme of the book is Ca’s relationships with women. In Cal’s own words,

“After realizing my own potential as a hoe boss, I quickly bagged a couple of the baddest chicks in my high school with little effort. I kept several winners on my team at all times. Fast forward to college, I began to take my pimpin’ to the next level. I was smashing at an amazing clip, at times, doing so indiscriminately. For me, it was a numbers game. The more women I slept with, the merrier I was. . . . I possessed an uncanny self -assuredness that endeared me to most of the women I encountered.”

From the viewpoint of black American cultural experience, Cal’s behavior would be seen as the regrettable behavior of the lost young black males, the product of broken homes, absent fathers, the drug war, and ghetto glorification and the devaluation of the black woman, a horrific consequence of American Jim Crow experience.. Brandon Lundy, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kennesaw State University, provides an alternative frame of reference directly from Balanta culture in his study, Challenging adulthood: Changing initiation rites among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau:

“During the rites of N’hess (ages 25 to 30), the Balanta youth residing in the boys’ house (a separate household within the patrilineal compound) is given to an older married woman from outside the community known as a finangha to teach Balanta youths to konxi mudjer or ‘know women’. Married Balanta women, for their part, are in charge of initiating young men into sexu-ality, and female adultery is encouraged by men of their own descent group (see Handem 1986: 72, 90, 172), who try to convince women to have sexual intercourse with their friends. Because achieving wealth-in-people is such an important aspect of Balanta society, the children of these adulterous relations are considered as belonging to the husband’s descent group (Temudo 2009: 51)”

This re-reading of Cal’s behavior, as an unconscious survival of Balanta culture, re-defines Cal’s experience from a morally bankrupt ghetto pathology to a genetic expression of Balanta manhood situated in a hostile social reality. It requires a Balanta ontology to understand this.

The 26 Principles of the Great Belief of the Balanta Ancient Ancestors explains that traditional Balanta culture is centered in a single value: vital force. that their purpose is to acquire life, strength or vital force, to live strongly, that they are to make life stronger, or to assure that force shall remain perpetually in one’s posterity. All beings in the universe possess vital force of their own: human, animal, vegetable, or inanimate. Each being has been endowed by God with a certain force, capable of strengthening the vital energy of the strongest being of all creation: man. Supreme happiness, the only kind of blessing, is to possess the greatest vital force: the worst misfortune and, in very truth, the only misfortune, is the diminution of this power.

Consider now these quotes from Cal:

“The more women I slept with, the merrier I was.”

“After graduating from college, I found myself in a space that was unfamiliar. My stable had become bare. . . . I had no job, no money, and was feeling down on my luck.. I still had my confidence, but I was going through a down period.”

“A nice piece of ass can entirely change a niggas mood and perspective. How can life be that bad when I have one of the Most High’s greatest gits at my disposal?”

“I felt like it would be hard for any broad to turn down pimping. My confidence on a scale from 1-10 was at about a 19! I was feeling like Black Caesar when I walked through.”

“Women were my dope.”

“There’s nothing better than bedding down with a broad, even a stranger. There is no greater comfort for a nigga than a bad female.”

Cal’s behavior can thus be explained very simply: he surrounded himself with that which did the most to increase his vital life force energy. The more beautiful “bad” women he had, the more it increased his strength, confidence and happiness. Without them, his vital life force energy decreased. It was a simple, intuitive response from a Balanta ontological point of view.

Similarly, another typical young black male hood behavior pattern can be re-examined and re-defined: dropping out of high school. Perhaps the book’s most brilliant passage occurs when Cal is explaining to his girl Kim why he and Black males like him drop out of high school. When Kim says, “You lost me; you love learning, but hated school?” Cal responds:

“Let’s take a subject, any subject, seventh-grade science, for example. In that textbook you gone cover Astronomy, Physical Science, Biology, Botany, Geology, etc. By the end of the year, you will have a solid foundation and understanding of the basic principles of each of these sceinces. Then you go to high school and spend a whole year on Biology, a whole year on Physics, a whole year on Earth Science, essentially relearning the same shit you learned in the 7th grade. Now, that’s cool if you plan on becoming a Botanist or Biologist, but, if not, when you start relearning the same shit you learned when you was little, you gone eventually tune out. It’s the same for the other subjects. And tune out is what I did for four years of high school. I was barely there, and when I was there the shit they was hitting me with wasn’t stimulating me, because it wasn’t new and I wasn’t learning shit about myself there. I don’t think I learned shit the entire time I was there. I could have gone to college straight from the eight grade. . . .

You seen the minis-series ‘Roots,’ right? So you remember when Kunte Kinte was in Africa before he got caught by the slave catchers. He had just completed his manhood ritual, his rite of passage so that he could become a warrior in his tribe. This was customary in almost every West African society. The Fulani, the Wolof, Mandinka, they all had these rites of passage. In most West African cultures, by the time a boy is 15 or 16 he went through one of these rites. The learning during these rites was Socratic; the young man was tested, mentally, physically, emotionally. After demonstrating an in-depth understanding of certain principles, principles the elders deemed necessary to live, protect and govern, he was elevated from the status of boy to that of a man. That’s where we get the whole concept of pledging in our black Greek lettered organizational from. The new man then returned to the village and was given his own hut. He provided for his village. He was allowed to participate in governance. He was a man in every sense, and even his mother wasn’t allowed to question him. He didn’t know everything at that age and stage. He still had to utilize the counsel of his elders, but society recognized him as a man. Now, you contrast that with a 15-year-old boy of African descent growing up in the U.S. He’s forced to sit and be lectured at for eight hours straight, five days a week, lectured at about the same shit he been learning the last nine or ten years. We not even taking into account the bias and the structural racism in the U.S. education system. His nature is going to lead him to a different environment, one where he is stimulated, and one where he is able to test and prove his manhood. And where is that in most cases? Well, for many of us it’s the streets. That’s why you see so many cats leave school and turn to the streets right about that age. That’s the only place many young men can receive the stimulation their physical and mental maturity warrants.. At 15 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was at Morehouse, not in high school. At 15, Malcolm X was on the streets of Boston getting his education. Look at hip hop. Cats like Nas, Jay-Z, Tupac, by most measures these dudes are all considered geniuses, they also all abandoned our educational system about the same age. I know I am using anecdotal and historical evidence to prove my point, but I bet if you look at the data you’ll find that most black males who do drop out of high school do so at that very age, right about 15 or 16, right at the age where biologically and culturally, in African culture anyway, he was trained to become and eventually was treated as a man. In this culture, he is treated like anything but. Our nature and our pre-slave culture and tradition is completely incompatible with this Western education system. That’s why it fails so many of us. I read a book on this shit when I was a kid. Check out this cat named Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. He lays a lot of this shit out in a book series he has called Countering the Conspiracy Against Black Boys.”

Lundy states that “The fanadu initiation is arguably the most important stage in the Balanta age progression because it represents manhood, adulthood, and the rights that are associated with this status. This ritual is some-times described as ‘opening the doors’ of maturity and wisdom in the Balanta community.” How could Cal and the millions of young black men like him, ever behave appropriately having never had the doors of maturity and wisdom opened for them?

Amid all the women, sex and typical hood experiences it recounts, 13 Bars of Iron is filled with lots of hidden doors that open one to a lot of knowledge and wisdom about the nature of black male and female relationships, the CIA’s involvement in Africa, Charles Taylor and recent events in Liberia, and even a cryptic reference to a son “who was a community organizer and an up and coming politician based in Chicago . . . . recently elected to serve in the Illinois State Legislature. When told to look out for that kid “cause he could fuck around and be President of the United States one day,” Cal responds, “Yeah, right. . . . an African nigga the President of the United States . . . .”

Read alongside The 26 Principles of the Great Belief of the Balanta Ancient Ancestors, 13 Bars of Iron can truly be considered a work of Balanta fiction. Which begs the question: how many other Balanta writers are there? We don’t know the answer to that now, but in the near future, genetic testing and genealogy research will allow the reclassification of all African Diaspora literature, and a new area of studies reading familiar works in relationship to their post-slavery specific ethnic survivals or departures.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES AND CULTURAL HOLIDAYS: BALANTA MAN VS. HALLOWEEN

In an interview on Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, Bryan Stevenson expertly explained the significance of “narratives”:

“There are narratives that actually shape the way we think. . . . Stories . . . but ideas, values . . . . for example, in the 1970’s and 80’s [America] declared a misguided war on drugs. [America] said that the people who are drug addicted and drug dependent are criminals and we need our criminal justice system to respond to that crisis. We could have said that people with addiction and dependency have a health problem and we need our health care system to respond to that. The reason why [America] made the crime choice was because we were being governed by what I call the politics of fear and anger. It was a NARRATIVE that we had to be tough on crime. That people who don’t do exactly what we want them to do are criminals and we use that narrative to justify these extreme punishments and I think we have to change that narrative because I think fear and anger are the essential ingredients of oppression and injustice. If you go anywhere in the world where people are abused or oppressed, the oppressors will give you a narrative of fear and anger.”

It was the narrative that facilitated what Michelle Alexander called The New Jim Crow enslavement of a generation of black people in America. The narrative was the ideological foundation that enabled a massive transfer of wealth from predominantly black Americans to white Americans.

In addition to the disproportionate mass incarceration of black people, the drug war devastated the social and economic development in those communities for decades. Young black men in particular were criminalized for the buying and selling of weed to support their families and communities when few employment alternatives were available. Taxpayers’ money armed the police force which was used as a terroristic occupying army in black communities. According to Alexander’s reserach, “more black men are behind bars or under the watch of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved in 1850.” However, marijuana reform law now says that the same activity that made young black men criminals is now “legal” and the economic benefits are staggering. According to the Investopedia Government & Policy 2020 Election Guide,

“Better than expected sales of marijuana in Colorado and Washington over the past several years have resulted in buoyant tax revenues. In 2015, Colorado collected more than $135 million in taxes and fees on medical and recreational marijuana. Sales in the state totaled over $996 million. Sales in North America grew 30%, to $6.7 billion, in 2016, and is projected to increase to $20.1 billion by 2021, according to Arcview Market Research. Local research supports this view as well; a report from the Colorado State University-Pueblo's Institute of Cannabis Research recently found that the legal cannabis industry has contributed more than $58 million to the local economy, primarily through taxes and other fees. Should marijuana become legal on a federal level, the benefits to the economy could be exceptional: a report from cannabis analytics company New Frontier suggests that federally legal pot could generate an additional $131.8 billion in aggregate federal tax revenue by 2025.”

Now consider that the number of black farmers in America peaked in 1920, when there were 949,889. Today, of the country’s 3.4 million total farmers, only 1.3%, or 45,508, are black, according to new figures from the US Department of Agriculture released this month. They own a mere 0.52% of America’s farmland. By comparison, 95% of US farmers are white. The land theft and wealth transfer from black farmers in America to white farmers in America means that black people are not in a position to benefit from growing marijuana legal. In addition, access to capital and loans to buy land and build processing and distribution centers means that the entire financial system that was created to serve the original white monopoly capitalists that formed the state governments as well as The United States of America will be the biggest beneficiary of the new transfer of wealth from black people to white people.

Meanwhile, the narrative about drug use has now changed exactly from “the people who are drug addicted and drug dependent are criminals and we need our criminal justice system to respond to that crisis” to “people with addiction and dependency have a health problem and we need our health care system to respond to that.” This is because, marijuana is less considered a drug, but heroin and opiods are considered drugs. And the biggest users and opiod drug addicts are overwhelmingly white. Thus, it is now politically acceptable to change the narrative about drug addicts in order to transfer wealth into servicing the health needs of white people and the priorities of the original monopoly capitalists that formed the state governments and the United States of America.

This is a very clear and specific example of the significance of NARRATIVES.

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH BALANTA PEOPLE AND CULTURAL HOLIDAYS?

Holidays serve as signifiers and symbols of national and cultural narratives. It engages, or attempts to engage, all of society in the acceptance and performance of a cultural narrative. For example, the 4th of July or “Independence Day” is a national holiday to celebrate the official narrative that a group of militia men whom are referred to as “patriots” were courageous freedom fighters who defended themselves against the tyranny of England and eventually, through a just war, established a new government and nation built on the principles of freedom and liberty for all people. That’s the narrative that is commemorated every 4th of July.

However, this narrative has always been challenged. According to Samuel Johnson’s seminal English Dictionary published at the time, the word "patriot" had a negative connotation and was used as a negative epithet for "a factious disturber of the government". An alternative narrative claims that the followers of a group called The Sons of Liberty were traitors and terrorists who engaged in criminal action against British troops (police) when they attacked them and attempted to defy the legally constituted authority at the time.

The most famous, and perhaps the greatest, expression of an alternative narrative of America’s Independence Day holiday was given in 1841 by Frederick Douglass, who asked, “What to the slave, is the 4th of July?”

“Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? . . . .I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people. . . .

Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorry this day, "may my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth"! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. . . . Whether we turn to the declarations of the past or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America!”

SO LET US NOW CONSIDER THE SPECIFIC NARRATIVE EUROPEANS USED AGAINST BALANTA

1433 Romanus pontifex, the first in a series of papal bulls issued during the fifteenth century that regulated Christian expansion, sanctioned the Infante’s request and Portugal’s alleged mission in Guinea since ‘we strive for those things that may destroy the errors and wickedness of the infidels’.

1506 Earliest account of the Balantas in written records, Valentim Fernandes, Descripcam, “There was very little stratification in Balanta society. Everyone worked in the fields, with no ruling class or families managing to exclude themselves from daily labor.”  

1594 Andre Alvares Almada, Trato breve dos rios de Guine, trans. P.E.H. Hair - “The Creek of the Balantas penetrates inland at the furthest point of the land of the Buramos [Brame]. The Balantas are fairly savage blacks.”

1615, Manuel Alvares commented, “They [Balantas] have no principle king. Whoever has more power is king, and every quarter of a league there are many of this kind.” and “They are all great thieves, and they tunnel their way into pounds to steal the cattle. They excel at making assaults . . . taking everything they can find and capturing as many persons as possible.”

1627 Alonso de Sandoval wrote that “Balanta were ‘a cruel people, [a] race without a king.”

1684 Francisco de Lemos Coelho says that “much of the territory of the Balanta ‘has not been navigated, nor does it have kings of consideration.’”

Late seventeenth century, Capuchins noted that ‘Balanta and the Falup’ cause notable damages and seize every day the vessels that pass by . . . and this even though the vessels are well armed.’

After constructing the narrative that the Balanta were “savage”, and “cruel” and later, that their “souls needed to be saved”, and creating a “legal” system (but not “lawful”) that replaced natural law with a new, man-made fictitious “corporate” or “statutory” law that made it “legal” to enslave the people in the land of “Guinea” , the Europeans, led by Portugal and then England, proceeded to send the most vicious of men to kidnap and capture Balanta men, women and children. The firsthand early accounts of these raids are documented in Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain Volume 3. Click here to read the official account of the Portuguese’s first arrival in the land of Guinea, according to Gomes Eannes de Azurara’s, the official royal chronicler of the King Don Affonso the Fifth of Portugal.

According to Herman L. Bennett, in African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic,

“The Portuguese do not act in accordance to existing definitions of conquest. During their initial voyages along Guinea’s coast, the Portuguese not only eschew establishing a settlement, either peacefully or by force; they also make no effort to contract a treaty so as to acquire a territorial claim to ‘the land of blacks.’ With several noteworthy exceptions, the initial Portuguese encounter with Guinea constituted chattel raids. Such raids underscore the commercial imperatives of those ‘notable deeds’ and of Portugal’s conquests.

Not to be outdone, the English, led by John Hawkins came to Guinea as violent, uncivilized barbaric criminals. West Africa: Quest For Gold and God 1475-1578 by John W. Blake recalls,

“After 1553 . . . English traders henceforth made regular voyages to Guinea. . . . The later struggles were the outcome of acts of pure aggression, perpetrated by groups of enterprising merchants and sailors in England and in France. . . . the Englishman, William Hawkins, seems to have sent three expeditions between 1530 and 1532. . . . Englishmen ventured to Guinea once more after 1553, and the international struggle in West Africa assumed hitherto unrivaled proportions. . . .Taken as a whole, a sordid fight for trade resulted in which little mercy was given and none expected, while the interests of the negroes were entirely subordinated to those of the whites. . . . London merchants and Plymouth sailors now advanced religious arguments, as well as the argument of force, to support their clandestine operations in Guinea. . . . England, as was perhaps natural for the paramount protestant state, took the lead in Guinea enterprises from 1559 to 1571. . . .It was John Hawkins who first put into operation the idea of English participation in the Africo-Caribbean slave trade, . . . .We hear of at least one other English ship which loaded 125 negroes at Cape Verde in the winter of 1564-5 .”

In A History of The Upper Guinea Coast 1545 to 1800, Walter Rodney Walter adds,

“Hawkins’ methods were typical of the first phase which the Portuguese had long left behind. He made direct attacks on unsuspecting villagers, and he seized slaves whom the Portuguese had purchased.

LET US NOW CONSIDER THE SPECIFIC NARRATIVE USED BY AFRICAN SCHOLARS TO DESCRIBE BALANTA

Walter Rodney writes:

“The earliest European reports disclose that the Balantas had a multiplicity of petty settlements consisting of family lineages (Fernandes, 80) . . . . The Balantas had quantities of prime yams…. The best farmers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - the Balantas, the Banhuns, and the Djolas- all had cattle and goats …. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Andre Dornelas pointed out that Balanta territory was free from heavy vegetation. It was these very Balantas who reared the most livestock in the area, and it was they who provided supplies of foodstuffs for their neighbors….That peoples who were far superior producers of food than the Mande and Fula are consistently dubbed ‘Primitives’ is due solely to the contention that they did not erect a superstructure of states. . . . It is only the Balantas who can be cited as lacking the institution of kingship. At any rate there seemed to have been little or no differentiation within Balanta society on the basis of who held property, authority and coercive power. Some sources affirmed that the Balantas had no kings, while an early sixteenth-century statement that the Balanta ‘kings’ were no different from their subjects must be taken as referring simply to the heads of the village and family settlements. . . . as in the case of the Balantas, the family is the sole effective social and political unit. . . .

The distribution of goods, to take a very important facet of social activity, was extremely well organized on an inter-tribal basis in the Geba-Casamance area, and one of the groups primarily concerned in this were the Balantas, who are often cited as the most typical example of the inhibited Primitives. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Portuguese realized that the Balantas were the chief agriculturalists and the suppliers of food to the neighboring peoples. The Beafadas and Papels were heavily dependent on Balanta produce, and in return, owing to the Balanta refusal to trade with the Europeans, goods of European origin reached them via the Beafadas and the Papels. The Balantas did not allow foreigners in their midst, but they were always present in the numerous markets held in the territory of their neighbors. . . .

Among the Balantas, who are to be classed as a ‘stateless society’, the system of land tenure is different. The Balantas are all small landowners, working their lands on the principle of voluntary reciprocal labour.”

In Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations Along The Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400 -1900, Walter Hawthorne writes,

“Like most in the coastal reaches of Guinea-Bissau, Balanta society was politically decentralized. In such societies, the village or confederation of villages was the largest political unit. Though a range of positions of authority often existed within villages and confederations, no one person or group claimed prerogatives over the legitimate use of coercive force. In face-to-face meetings involving many people, representatives from multiple households sat as councils threshing out decisions affecting the whole.

Concerning the Balanta, then, there are two narratives. The European narrative says that the Balanta were cruel savages who needed their souls saved and were thus to be legally enslaved. The African narrative says that the Balanta were an egalitarian society where everyone worked together and there was no monopoly of authority or coercive force. All decision affecting the people were made by consensus through a council of elders. The Balanta were the best farmers, participated in an organized pan-ethnic market and fed the local people regardless of ethnicity. 

SO THE QUESTION IS, WHO WERE THE REAL CHAMPIONS OF FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY? THE EUROPEANS OR THE BALANTA?

In defense of their freedom, Hawthorne describes the Balanta military skill,

“In part, the Balanta and other coastal groups resisted enslavement by exploiting the advantages offered by the region in which they lived. Put simply, the coast offered more defenses and opportunities for counterattack against slave-raiding armies and other enemies than did the savanna-woodland interior. In the early twentieth century, Portuguese administrator Alberto Gomes Pimentel explained how the Balanta utilized the natural protection of mangrove-covered areas – terrafe in Guinean creole – when they were confronted with an attack from a well-organized and well-armed enemy seeking captives or booty: ‘Armed with guns and large swords, the Balanta, who did not generally employ any resistance on these occasions. . . . pretended to flee (it was their tactic), suffering a withdrawal and going to hide in the ‘terrafe’ on the margins on the rivers and lagoons, spreading out in the flats some distance so as not to be shot by their enemies. The attackers. . . . then began to return for their lands with all of the spoils of war’. Organizing rapidly and allying themselves with others in the area, the Balanta typically followed their enemies through the densely forested coastal region. At times, the Balanta waited until their attackers had almost reached their homelands before giving ‘a few shots and making considerable noise so as to cause a panic.’ The Balanta then engaged their enemies in combat, ‘many times corpo a corpo’. . . .

Upon finding a stranded boat, young Balanta warriors summoned tabanca age-grade members with a bombolom. This instrument, a hollowed section of tree trunk with a horizontal slit that is struck with two sticks, is used by Balanta today to transmit detailed information over long distances. In casual conversation, one elder told me that the bombolom is ‘the Balanta telephone.’ Alvares described these instruments in the early seventeenth century:‘Bombalous are used to signal what they want announced in a very public way within districts or among neighboring village, and these serve the same purpose as do sentinels and beacons, so that as soon as the sound of the bombalous is heard this is the signal for all to listen. . . . When a war breaks out, within an hour it is known over a district of 20 leagues. If there are settlements all the way the information is passed along more easily, even if the houses are a league apart, since each tells the next.’ Similarly, Spanish Capuchins specifically mentioned that Balanta ‘play a certain instrument that they call in their language bombolon’ to ‘announce the attack.’

Having assembled in what the Capuchins called ‘a great number,’ Balanta warriors struck their stranded victims quickly and with overwhelming force. ‘Upon approaching a boat,’ the Capuchins said, ‘they attack with fury, they kill, rob, capture and make off with everything.’ Such attacks happened with a great deal of regularity and struck fear in the hearts of merchants and missionaries alike. Others also commented on the frequency of Balanta raids on river vessels. On March 24, 1694, Bispo Portuense feared that he would fall victim to the Balanta when his boat, guided by grumetes, ran aground on a sandbar, probably on the Canal do Impernal, ‘very close to the territory of those barbarians.’ . . . .

Faced with an impediment to the flow of trade to their ports, the Portuguese tried to bring an end to Balanta raids. But they were outclassed militarily by skilled Balanta age-grade fighters. Portuguese adjutant Amaro Rodrigues and his crew certainly discovered this. In 1696, he and a group of fourteen soldiers from a Portuguese post on Bissau anchored their craft somewhere near a Balanta village close to where Bissau’s Captain Jose Pinheiro had ordered the men to stage an attack. However, the Portuguese strategy was ill conceived. A sizable group of Balanta struck a blow against the crew before they had even left their boat. The Balanta killed Rodrigues and two Portuguese soldiers and took twelve people captive.

Returning to Hawthorne’s Strategies of the Decentralized,

“In 1777, Portuguese commander Ignacio Bayao reported from Bissau that he was furious that Balanta had been adversely affecting the regional flow of slaves and other goods carried by boats along Guinea-Bissau’s rivers. It was ‘not possible,’ he wrote, ‘to navigate boats for those [Balanta] parts without some fear of the continuous robbing that they have done, making captive those who navigate in the aforementioned boats.’ In response, Bayao sent infantrymen in two vessels ‘armed for war’ into Balanta territories. After these men had anchored, disembarked, and ventured some distance inland, they ‘destroyed some men, burning nine villages’ and then made a hasty retreat back to the river. Finding their vessels rendered ‘disorderly,’ the infantrymen were quickly surrounded by well-armed Balanta. Bayao lamented that ‘twenty men from two infantry companies’ were taken captive or killed. Having sent out more patrols to subdue the ‘savage Balanta’ and having attempted a ‘war’ against this decentralized people, the Portuguese found that conditions on Guinea- Bissau’s rivers did not improve.’

Viewing the regional slave trade as a threat to their communities, the Balanta continued their raids on merchant vessels transporting captives and other goods. Such raids would tax Portuguese patience throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century . . . . Thus, by garnering weapons and iron in regional markets and from Luso-African merchants, many Balanta communities, like those of other decentralized coastal societies, were not only able to stand up to threats posed by the slaving armies of Kaabu and Casamance, they were also able to withstand assaults by Portuguese who were attempting to profit by insuring the smooth running of the coastal trade routes that moved captives to area ports.”

BALANTA MAN VS. HALLOWEEN

Knowing the importance of narratives, and having the power to shape them, I am combating the European narrative about the Balanta on one of their cultural holidays, Halloween. In America, this is a day when white people celebrate “horror”. They make movies about depravity, evil, murder and dismemberment and then dress their children in costumes portraying the depraved characters. They also make movies and dress their children in costumes of skeletons and ghosts, creating an fearful emotional response to dead people. This is the exact opposite of Balanta culture, which maintains a living connection with “enas”, the living vital life force energy that survives “after death” and continues to communicate with those living on earth. Finally, the white Americans also create movies about superheroes glorifying the character traits of courage and heroism, defeating “bad people” and criminals. They depict theses superheros to reflect their culture and their narrative.

So today, to combat this narrative, I have summoned Balanta Man! He is the real life Balanta Super Hero who killed the brutal, European criminals, rapists and murderers that came to steal Balanta children and murder those they could not enslave. According to Balanta legends, their age-grade warriors had the power to transform themselves into animals and other creatures.

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  • Apr 30, 2025 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DELIVERS LETTER TO U.S. GENERAL MICHAEL LANGLEY AT THE UNITED STATES LIASON OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN GUINEA BISSAU. Apr 30, 2025
  • Apr 25, 2025 SEND THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND TO THE VATICAN TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS Apr 25, 2025
  • Apr 22, 2025 THE NEW NARRATIVE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION'S THEMED YEAR "REPARATIONS FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS" Apr 22, 2025
  • Apr 20, 2025 Rastafari, Repatriation and Citizenship Case Study in Tanzania: Mzee Saburi Omega, the Face of The Right To Return During the African Union's Themed Year "Reparations". Apr 20, 2025
  • Apr 19, 2025 Exciting News: Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora is FINALISED! Apr 19, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Discussing Decolonization and liberation with Russ Christopher, activist and freedom fighter in the U.S. Virgin Islands Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 9, 2025 Making A Reparations Claim Under the Geneva Convention for the Crime of Ethnocide Resulting from Enslavement Apr 9, 2025
• March 2025
  • Mar 22, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Recommends Groundbreaking DNA Testing, Lineage Restoration, Repatriation and Self Governing Territories to Illinois' African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Mar 22, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 EIN Presswire Refuses to Distribute Press Release about Plebiscite for Reparations for Afro Descendants Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 WHERE TO HOST A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS? THE WAY FORWARD Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 REVISITING THE CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT IN AFRICA TODAY: SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSSES THE DIVISIONS IN THE MOVEMENT Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau May 10-19, 2025 Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION SANKOFA UBUNTU: THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT Mar 12, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025
  • Feb 28, 2025 A Response to Tadesse Simie Metekia's article, AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past Feb 28, 2025
  • Feb 20, 2025 AU ECOSOCC and the African Diaspora 6th Region: Reflections on My Crusade While Returning from the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union Feb 20, 2025
  • Feb 6, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO TEN MORE AFRO DESCENDANTS Feb 6, 2025
• January 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025 SIPHIWE BALEKA SPEAKS ABOUT THE ONGOING LEGACY OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE AT THE COOPERATIVE REPAIR EVENT Jan 20, 2025
  • Jan 16, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO AFRICAN DIASPORA Jan 16, 2025
• December 2024
  • Dec 12, 2024 Bureaucrats, Gatekeepers and the Attempt to Sabotage the African Diaspora 6th Region Elections Dec 12, 2024
  • Dec 1, 2024 African Diaspora Town Hall Meeting With Former Special Advisor to AU-ECOSOCC Ms. Evelyn Joe - "Variance between AU Member States' and AU's Definition of the Diaspora" Dec 1, 2024
• November 2024
  • Nov 17, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ELECTIONS PROCESS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE AU-ECOSOCC 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov 17, 2024
  • Nov 12, 2024 ELECTING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/AU 6TH REGION REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTRAL COUNCIL (AU-ECOSOCC) Nov 12, 2024
  • Nov 8, 2024 PGRNA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nov 8, 2024
• October 2024
  • Oct 22, 2024 CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA Oct 22, 2024
  • Oct 21, 2024 BALANTA SOCIETY PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA RIGHT OF RETURN AT 81ST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Oct 21, 2024
  • Oct 6, 2024 Haitian Leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier speaks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Oct 6, 2024
• September 2024
  • Sep 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations Sep 29, 2024
  • Sep 20, 2024 Balanta Basketball Star From America Plays First Game in Guinea Bissau Sep 20, 2024
  • Sep 1, 2024 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts gets five year residency in Guinea Bissau Sep 1, 2024
• August 2024
  • Aug 13, 2024 FIDDLER AND CHICKEN GEORGE THEN AND NOW: CAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CELEBRITY CHANGE THE GAME? Aug 13, 2024
• July 2024
  • Jul 20, 2024 BALANTA LEADERS SPEAK ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF NEW AFRIKAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Jul 20, 2024
  • Jul 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day Jul 12, 2024
• June 2024
  • Jun 21, 2024 Balanta Leaders Present at Juneteenth Commemoration Highlighting the Need for Reparatory Justice Jun 21, 2024
  • Jun 14, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs on RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation, Black Power Media Network podcast Jun 14, 2024
  • Jun 9, 2024 The Correctness of Shifting from the European "Slave Trade" to the African "War Crimes" Narrative: Notes on José Lingna Nafafé's New Book on the 1684 Mendonça (Kongo) Reparations Case at the Vatican Jun 9, 2024
• May 2024
  • May 29, 2024 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA STILL PRISONERS OF WAR IF THEY HAVE VOTED? May 29, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 WORLD AQUATICS AND THE GUINEA BISSAU NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: FRAUD, THEFT, DISCRIMINATION & CORRUPTION - ILLEGAL PAYMENTS!!!! May 27, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka discussed the UN Permanent Forum and the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 podcast May 27, 2024
  • May 19, 2024 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika addressed the Afrodescendant Nation National Reparations Convention in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2024
  • May 9, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka Concludes Successful Diplomacy Tour in Ougadougu, Burkina Faso May 9, 2024
• April 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 IS THE UN PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THE LATEST REFINEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM? Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Republic of New Afrika: Overview of National Security Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 14, 2024 EARTH DAY 53: WITCHCRAFT, THE NEW AFRIKAN THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MERCY OF DESTINY Apr 14, 2024
• March 2024
  • Mar 25, 2024 BBHAGSIA Dafana Institute Quebo Project Update Mar 25, 2024
  • Mar 16, 2024 DEFENDING THE INTERIM PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA DURING THE SPECIAL ELECTION Mar 16, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024 The United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) 3rd Forum Denies Sponsorship for AfroDescendant Activist Requesting Advisory Opinion from the ICJ Mar 11, 2024
• February 2024
  • Feb 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group Feb 26, 2024
  • Feb 9, 2024 A Balanta Homecoming: Abebenan Visits Tchokmon Village In Guinea Bissau Feb 9, 2024
  • Feb 3, 2024 The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union Feb 3, 2024
• January 2024
  • Jan 25, 2024 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM COMES TO BALANTA PEOPLE IN TINKA VILLAGE, BISSORA SECTOR, OIO REGION, NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jan 25, 2024
  • Jan 4, 2024 A Matter of War: Imari Obadele, Our Enslavement in the 13 Colonies and the United States, the Republic of New Afrika and Reparations Jan 4, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 Plebiscite Workshop at the New Afrikan People's Convention, December 30, 2023 Jan 1, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 WILL 2024 BE THE YEAR OF PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY?: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Jan 1, 2024
• December 2023
  • Dec 16, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka and Kamm Howard: Notes on Reparations & Plebiscite Strategy Dec 16, 2023
• November 2023
  • Nov 28, 2023 STOP CALLING IT A SLAVE TRADE: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE PRISONERS OF WAR! NKECHI TAIFA REFLECTS ON THE TEACHINGS OF IMARI OBADELE Nov 28, 2023
  • Nov 23, 2023 Balanta Society Report from the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023 Nov 23, 2023
  • Nov 22, 2023 Input on the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Under the Geneva Convention Nov 22, 2023
  • Nov 15, 2023 WHO IS AN AFRICAN EXPERT ON REPARATIONS? Nov 15, 2023
  • Nov 4, 2023 What Real Reparations Looks Like: A Visit to the Balanta Village in Rucuto, Guinea Bissau Nov 4, 2023
• October 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023 United States Confronted About State-Sanctioned Ethnocide Against Balanta People at the United Nations Oct 17, 2023
  • Oct 10, 2023 A Letter Urging PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar to Immediately Fulfill the Mandate Given by Civil Society to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Oct 10, 2023
• September 2023
  • Sep 26, 2023 ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL AMMONS AND BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR STATUS, ETHNOCIDE AND THE PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Sep 26, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents at the Future Black America Conference, September 19 Sep 25, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Nkechi Taifa's Human Rights and Justice Podcast: Episode 52 Featuring Siphiwe Baleka Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka meets with the New Minister of Tourism, Faustino Mamadu Saliu Jaló Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 2, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka, President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation meets with the new Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Albino Gomes Sep 2, 2023
• August 2023
  • Aug 10, 2023 AU-ADS Sixth Region High Council Africa Facilitator Calls for Country Facilitators to Assist with The Right To Return Repatriation Process Aug 10, 2023
• July 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Endorse the N’COBRA Health Commission Millions for Mutulu: The Dr. Mutulu Shakur Public Health Peoples Campaign Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Tanya, Susana & the Djola (aka Felupe) Essangai: A Story for the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 25, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Barr’s Official Response to the Mandate Requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion. Jul 25, 2023
  • Jul 21, 2023 UPDATE: Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2023
  • Jul 20, 2023 READ THE PETITION CHARGING THE UNITED STATES WITH ETHNOCIDE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Jul 20, 2023
  • Jul 16, 2023 “Petty Theft” or “Special Op”? Office of Reparations Activist Burglarised, Laptops Stolen Jul 16, 2023
• June 2023
  • Jun 28, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar Agrees to sign a Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Enslaved in the Americas. Jun 28, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023 ENDORSE THE 8TH PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS PART 1 TO BE HELD LATER THIS YEAR IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE Jun 26, 2023
  • Jun 22, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jun 22, 2023
  • Jun 20, 2023 JUNETEENTH: THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION'S RECOGNITION OF NEW AFRIKAN RIGHTS UNDER NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE 14TH AMENDMENT FRAUD & THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF MALCOLM X AND IMARI OBADELE Jun 20, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Balanta Basketball Star from America Arrives in Guinea Bissau during the Decade of Return Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 15, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Reparations Reverend Kwame Kamau and Siphiwe Baleka discuss Pan Africanism, Lineage Restoration and PFPAD Jun 15, 2023
  • Jun 10, 2023 Direct and Certain Causal Nexus: Reparatory Justice for Quantifiable Harms and The Importance of the PFPAD Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jun 10, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 1st Meeting of the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 Will Siphiwe Baleka and the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation be Blocked from the Olympics Again? Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 AN OPEN LETTER TO EPSY CAMPBELL BARR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Jun 2, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 Webinar: I made $100 in my first month posting on the Backroom social media platform - the "Black Facebook". Here's how I did it. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 pm CST Jun 2, 2023
• May 2023
  • May 31, 2023 Justin Hansford's Remarks at the Opening of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) May 31, 2023
  • May 30, 2023 Statement to the 2nd Session of PFPAD: Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ May 30, 2023
  • May 29, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Curtis Murphy on the Fihankra Repatriation and CIA Sabotage May 29, 2023
  • May 28, 2023 The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice May 28, 2023
  • May 25, 2023 ILLINOIS PASSES HR292 RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE DNA TESTING AND REPARATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION TO ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS IN AFRICA - HIGHLIGHTS BALANTAS FROM AMERICA May 25, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 MoAC Biss – Art and Culture Exhibition of Guinea-Bissau May 2023 May 1, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 Balanta Society Statement to the 32nd Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-5, 2023 May 1, 2023
• April 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Present at International Congress entitled “OTHER READINGS ABOUT AMÍLCAR CABRAL” at the University of Lisbon, April 27 and 28th Apr 27, 2023
  • Apr 26, 2023 Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa: Episode 34 - "Reparations Utilizing International Instruments with Siphiwe Balenta" Apr 26, 2023
  • Apr 17, 2023 Global Afrikan Strategic Reparatory Justice Efforts at the PFPAD, ICJ, and AU - The Board As Seen By Siphiwe Baleka Apr 17, 2023
  • Apr 13, 2023 WEWO! Nqpadn Kbonh Issue #1 Apr 13, 2023
  • Apr 4, 2023 Prince Theophilus Tatsitsa Gha and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss the Decade of Return Initiative in Cameroon Apr 4, 2023
• March 2023
  • Mar 31, 2023 Don't Be Fooled! The Vatican's Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is Wordplay! Mar 31, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023 Introducing Alante Daniel Nabicamba Mar 26, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023 5th Preparatory Meeting for the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Definition of the Diaspora Mar 25, 2023
  • Mar 19, 2023 Supporting the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Letters to Africans at Home and Abroad from the Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders Mar 19, 2023
  • Mar 9, 2023 Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders forms to support the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1 to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe Mar 9, 2023
  • Mar 8, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents "Ethnocide: Genocide's Twin Sister" at the 9th Annual Genocide and Human Rights Research Conference Mar 8, 2023
  • Mar 5, 2023 Taking the Afro Descendants Case to the International Court of Justice: A Peoples' Mandate Issued to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Mar 5, 2023
• February 2023
  • Feb 14, 2023 Letter to Pan Africanists Concerning the Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Later This Year Feb 14, 2023
  • Feb 13, 2023 From the 8th Pan African Congress in 2014 to the 8th Pan African Congress in 2023 Feb 13, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 Will there be an African Diaspora regional headquarters for the African Union 6th Region? Upcoming Pan African Congress to make a proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 African Diaspora Ambassadors for the African Union 6th Region: Upcoming Pan African Congress to Make Proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 8, 2023 Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Will Propose a Comprehensive African Union Citizenship Policy for the African Diaspora Feb 8, 2023
• January 2023
  • Jan 22, 2023 Call for Inputs for United Nations Visit to the United States of America 24 April – 5 May 2023 Jan 22, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023 Balanta Society in America President Siphiwe Baleka Discusses the Durban Declaration at Forum on the 7th National Day of Racial Healing Jan 18, 2023
  • Jan 15, 2023 Peanuts, Cashews, Mono-Mercantilism, and Soil Erosion in Guinea Bissau: Amilcar Cabral and George Washington Carver Jan 15, 2023
• December 2022
  • Dec 26, 2022 UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Intervenes in Mumia Abu Jamal's Case Dec 26, 2022
  • Dec 20, 2022 Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update: Important Meeting With Conservador dos Registros Centrais (Keeper of Central Records) Dec 20, 2022
  • Dec 19, 2022 Strategic Reparations Litigation: Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects, Ethnocide and Prisoner of War Claims - A Look at Cases Against France and the United States Dec 19, 2022
  • Dec 14, 2022 Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemì Sàngódáre Nobles and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss Transgenerational Epigentic Effects (TGEE) of Slavery and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM) Dec 14, 2022
  • Dec 12, 2022 NCOBRA's Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 12, 2022
  • Dec 8, 2022 New! Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update Dec 8, 2022
  • Dec 6, 2022 Siphiwe Baleka Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 6, 2022
  • Dec 1, 2022 THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, THE DURBAN DECLARATION, REPATRIATION AND PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Dec 1, 2022
• November 2022
  • Nov 29, 2022 2022 Decade of Return Naming Ceremony in Guinea Bissau for Members of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Nov 29, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022 The Indignity of an African Traveling to Geneva, Switzerland for the Launch of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 17, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022 WILL CAMEROON SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO PEOPLE OF CAMEROONIAN ORIGIN IN THE DIASPORA UNDER A DECADE OF RETURN TO CAMEROON INITIATIVE Nov 13, 2022
  • Nov 6, 2022 Decade of Return to Cameroon: Report on the African Roots and Heritage Foundation and our Meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of External Affairs Nov 6, 2022
  • Nov 5, 2022 THE NEW AFRIKAN THOUGHT CONFERENCE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGES (CERDOTOLA) Nov 5, 2022
• October 2022
  • Oct 26, 2022 New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Oct 26, 2022
  • Oct 15, 2022 NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration Oct 15, 2022
• September 2022
  • Sep 24, 2022 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY J. BLINKEN ON THE 49TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2022
  • Sep 2, 2022 UN Committee Recommends Reparations - A Resource Guide for Understanding Our Struggle For Human Rights in International Forums Sep 2, 2022
• August 2022
  • Aug 27, 2022 MY CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X Aug 27, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka discusses neo-colonialism, organizing, global soil extinction and revolutionary Pan Africanism with Omowale Afrika on the "Going Off Topic" Podcast Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 What Direction Reparations? - Article from the NCOBRA 33rd Annual Convention Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 8, 2022 BBHAGSIA Celebrates Inaugural Dr. Mutulu Shakur Community Health Day With 4 Minute Fit Program Aug 8, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 29, 2022 #SAVESOIL GUINEA BISSAU: REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN (NAIP) AND THE IMPENDING FOOD SECURITY CRISIS Jul 29, 2022
• June 2022
  • Jun 24, 2022 TOWARDS A PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF THE AFRO DESCENDANT COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN IMARI OBADELE READER AND STRATEGIC PLAN Jun 24, 2022
  • Jun 15, 2022 UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS LANDSCAPE IN GUINEA BISSAU AND A PLAN TO FIX IT Jun 15, 2022
  • Jun 13, 2022 RUMO A UMA POLÍTICA DE DIREITO DE RETORNO E CIDADANIA PARA OS DESCENDENTES DE PESSOAS RETIRADAS DE TERRITÓRIOS DA ÁFRICA DURANTE O TRÁFICO TRANSATLÂNTICO E ESCRAVIDÃO DE POVOS AFRICANOS Jun 13, 2022
  • Jun 9, 2022 TOWARDS A RIGHT TO RETURN & CITIZENSHIP POLICY FOR DESCENDENTS OF PEOPLE TAKEN FROM TERRITORIES IN AFRICA DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE Jun 9, 2022
  • Jun 7, 2022 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GUINEA BISSAU’S SWIMMERS: 1ST "DASH FOR CASH" EVENT AND ELITE TEAM SELECTION Jun 7, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 NATAÇÃO, DINHEIRO E DESIGUALDADE GLOBAL: UMA COMPARAÇÃO DO APOIO DADO À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA GUINÉ BISSAU E À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA UCRÂNIA Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 SWIMMING, MONEY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY: A COMPARISON OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE GUINEA BISSAU SWIMMING FEDERATION AND THE UKRAINE SWIMMING FEDERATION Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 AT LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE TO BRING COMPETITIVE SWIMMING TO GUINEA BISSAU Jun 2, 2022
• May 2022
  • May 22, 2022 CURRENT STATUS OF GUINEA BISSAU: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT STATISTICS May 22, 2022
  • May 6, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka Promoting the Global #savesoil movement in Guinea Bissau May 6, 2022
• April 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Joins Launch of the Impact Hub Candidate Bissau Apr 20, 2022
  • Apr 2, 2022 Team SDGB Celebrates Birthday of Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Interim President Siphiwe Baleka Apr 2, 2022
• March 2022
  • Mar 25, 2022 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 22-29, 2022 Mar 25, 2022
  • Mar 8, 2022 Balanta History & Genealogy Society in America Launches T-Shirt Collection Featuring The Teachings of Amilcar Cabral Mar 8, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 RIGHT TO RETURN ALLIANCE SKILLS SURVEY Feb 6, 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 FIRST 50-METER OLYMPIC SWIM TRAINING FACILITY BUILT IN GUINEA BISSAU Feb 6, 2022
• January 2022
  • Jan 28, 2022 New Uniforms for Girls Team Provided by Interim President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Siphiwe Baleka Jan 28, 2022
• November 2021
  • Nov 18, 2021 BBHAGSIA President Discusses the COVID Agenda on Discussions of Truth Podcast Nov 18, 2021
  • Nov 8, 2021 Nbuntul a Kraase: Balanta Stories Now Available for First Time Translated into English Nov 8, 2021
  • Nov 2, 2021 BanFaaba and BBHAGSIA Presidents Attend African Union Workshop on Transformational Leadership Across Africa Nov 2, 2021
• October 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Federação de Natação da Guiné-Bissau e Ban-Faaba comemoram o Dia Mundial da Natação Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Swim Federation and Ban-Faaba Celebrate World Swim Day Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 20, 2021 Setting an Example for Afrodescendant Athletes From America: Siphiwe Baleka Represents Guinea Bissau at the 14th African Swimming Championships Oct 20, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 O presidente do BanFaaba, Mario Ceesay, e o coordenador da Década de Retorno, Siphiwe Baleka, se encontram com H.E. Dra. Erieka Bennett, Fundadora e Chefe da Missão, Diáspora Fórum Africano Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 BanFaaba President Mario Ceesay and Decade of Return Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka Meet with H.E. Dr. Erieka Bennett, Founder and Head of Mission, Diaspora African Forum Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 13, 2021 MOTION TO THE AFRICAN UNION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 39th EXTRAORDINARY SESSION DRAFTED BY BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT AND SUBMITTED TO THE AU ECOSOCC SECRETARIAT THROUGH THE ZAMBIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Oct 13, 2021
  • Oct 2, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts Playing Professional Basketball and Lighting It Up at the Armenia Cup. Oct 2, 2021
• September 2021
  • Sep 22, 2021 Consulting a B'sika and Discovering Unche, My Ancestral Village in Guinea Bissau Sep 22, 2021
  • Sep 15, 2021 BAN-FAABA USA Donates Medical Supplies to Village in Encheia, Guinea Bissau Sep 15, 2021
  • Sep 9, 2021 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #4 Sep 9, 2021
• July 2021
  • Jul 21, 2021 A Bumpy Road to the Olympics - Training in Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2021
  • Jul 18, 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 23-30, 2021 Jul 18, 2021
• June 2021
  • Jun 22, 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF GUINEA BISSAU TO AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE DECADE OF RETURN Jun 22, 2021
  • Jun 11, 2021 Guinea Bissau Begins Granting Citizenship to Afrodescendants from the United States Jun 11, 2021
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Return to Khuti Part 2: The Mesintu and Anu Ancestors of the Balanta

In Return to Khuti: The Great Pyramid and Balanta we learned that the Great Pyramid is properly called “Khuti” and was built by the old Stellar Cult people of Egypt, the followers of Horus called Mesinu, who were descendants of the earlier Mesenti/Mesintu, or followers of Horus Behutet.

Now we are going to learn about the conflict with the Mesintu and why our Balanta ancestors migrated from the Nile Valley just prior to the conquest of Menes (Narmer) and the establishment of the first dynasty in Kemet (Egypt).

Excerpt from Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain Volume 1:

The Mesintu Blacksmiths and Cult of Horus at Edfu

“Metals were introduced into Egypt in very ancient times, since the class of blacksmiths is associated with the worship of Horus of Edfu and appears in the account of the mythical wars of that God.” “The earliest tools we possess in copper or bronze date from the Fourth Dynasty.” (Gladstone on “Metallic Copper, Tin and Antimony form Ancient Egypt,” in the Proceedings of the Biblical Archaeological Society, 1891-92, pp. 223-26).

“…. Copper, tin, and antimony were known to these ancient Egyptians from the earliest times of their Totemic Sociology, thousands of years before the Stellar Mythos, at which period of time the Pyramids of Gizeh were built.”

Maspero is right in associating the blacksmiths with Horus of Edfu.

As I have stated, the Kavirondo Nilotic Negroes work in iron, and also in copper, and amongst these people their blacksmiths are called Yothetth. There is a separate caste called “Uvino,” and amongst the Gemi tribe the blacksmiths were formed into a religious secret society, and still possess all the myths of Horus of Edfu. Horus I was the great chief in their Hero Cult, and “the Chief Artificer in Metals, “i.e. he was recognized as the Chief Hero of this clan or secret society.”

It was these ‘blacksmiths’ – men who knew how to smelt iron ore and to forge the metal into weapons of offence and defense – who formed themselves into the ‘big clan of Blacksmiths,’ having Horus as their astronomical Chief, that came up from the South to the North in pre-dynastic times, and , having conquered the Masaba Negroes and the Nilotic  Negroes (Balanta ancestors), who were then the inhabitants of Egypt, established themselves in Egypt, making Edfu their chief city and center. They possessed the knowledge of working in metals, brick-making, and pottery. . . . They could not but meet with success when warring, because they were armed with superior weapons; troops armed with weapons of iron must be successful against those armed with weapons of flint. The Egyptians called these ‘followers of Horus’ Mesintu or Mesinti, which I believe was the original name for all those tribes, and which may now be applied to the Masai group.  As we know, Horus was their deified God, and as Edfu became their center, he was styled “Lord of the forge city,’ The Great Master Blacksmith. It was here that they first built a sanctuary or temple which was called ‘Mesnet” The hieroglyphic here proves that these people were those belonging to the Masai ancestors.”

Article JE 34210 in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt. Pre-dynastic period. It is likely that this knife was not used in daily life, but rather for religious purposes.

Now, my sons, reconsider what Credo Mutwa (the last living sangoma, or traditional Bantu healer, to undergo the thwasa sangoma training and initiation) has said: “the Watu-Tu-Tsi and the Masai – the Children of the Dragon (according to legend, spawned by the evil serpent with the sole purpose of oppressing and destroying the Bantu).”

In the book, Black Arabia & The African Origin of Islam, Wesley Muhammad writes,

“Even S.O.Y. Ketia, in a number of meticulous studies, found that:

‘The peopling of what is now the Egyptian Nile Valley, judging from archaeological and biological data, was apparently the result of a complex interaction between coastal northern Africans, ‘neolithic’ Saharans, Nilotic hunters, and riverine proto-Nubians with some influence and migration from the Levant. The major variability of early ‘Egyptians’ is thus seen to have been mainly established in the proto-predynastic period by the settling of all these people.’”

Thus, there was a mix of various different people in the Nile Valley area where the ancient ancestors of the Balanta lived. Coming into contact with these different groups of people created conflicts. Diop continues in “Political and Social Evolution of Ancient Egypt”:

“The political unification of the Nile Valley was effected for the first time from the south, from the kingdom of Nekhen in Upper Egypt. Narmer’s Tablet, discovered by Quibell in Hierakonpolis, retraced its various episodes.

The capital of the united kingdom was transferred to Tjenu (Thinis) near Abydos. This was the period of the first two Tjenu (Thinite) dynasties (3000-2778). By the Third Dynasty (2778-2723), centralization of the monarchy was complete. All the technological and cultural elements of Egyptian civilization were already in place and had only to be perpetuated. . . . Petrie affirmed that this dynasty, the first to give Egyptian civilization its almost definitive form and expression, was of Sudanese Nubian origin. It was easier to recognize the Negro origin of the Egyptians when the initial display of their civilization coincided with an unquestionably Negro dynasty. The equally Negro features of the protodynastic face of Tera Neter and those of the first king to unify the valley, also prove that this is the only valid hypothesis….

‘With administrative centralization in the Third Dynasty,’ writes Jacques Piernne, ‘there was no longer any noble or privileged class.’ However, the clergy, guardian of the faith that established the king’s authority, was a corps apart, well organized and relatively independent. Until then it had exercised its spiritual guardianship at the coronation of the king in the temple at Heliopolis. But, to make his power absolute, the king clashed with the clergy. From then on he renounced the Heliopolis coronation and had himself crowned in his own palace at Memphis. He proclaimed the principle of his omnipotence by divine right, added ‘Great God’ to his titles, and was free from any human control. The advent of the Fourth Dynasty, with the Giza pyramids, showed that the monarchy had reached its zenith.

Thereafter, the regime again evolved toward feudalism. The courtiers constituted a special corps of dignitaries which would make itself hereditary by usage, and soon by right. The cycle just described was twice more repeated almost identically and the history of ancient Egypt was to end without ever developing into a republic nor creating true secular thought. The feudal system that had just triumphed with the Fifth Dynasty reached its peak with the Sixth. It then engendered general stagnation in the economy and the administration of the State in urban as well as rural areas. And the Sixth Dynasty was to end with the first popular uprising in Egyptian history.

Obviously, division of labor on the basis of craftmanship already existed. The cities doubtless were active centers of trade with the eastern Mediterranean. Their idle poverty-stricken masses would take an active pat in the revolt. The mores of the nobility created a special class of men: servants contracted for varying tenure. The text describing these events shows that the country had plunged into anarchy; insecurity reigned, especially in the Delta with the raids by “Asiatics”. The latter monopolized the jobs intended for Egyptians in the various workshops and urban building yards.

The wretched of Memphis, capital and sanctuary of royalty, pillaged the city, robbing the rich and driving them into the streets. The movement soon spread to other cities. Sais was temporarily governed by a group of ten notables. The situation throughout the city was poignantly described in that text:

‘Thieves become proprietors and the former rich are robbed. Those dressed in fine garments are beaten. Ladies who had never set foot outside now go out. The children of nobles are dashed against the walls. Towns are abandoned. Doors, walls, columns are set aflame. The offspring of the great are thrown into the street. Nobles are hungry and in distress. Servants now are served. Noble ladies flee hungry and in distress. Servants now are served. Noble ladies flee… [their children] cringe in fear of death. The country is full of malcontents. Peasants wear shields into the fields. Man slays his own brother. The roads are traps. People lie in ambush until [the farmer] returns in the evening; then they steal whatever he is carrying. Beaten with cudgels, he is shamefully killed. Cattle roam at will; no one attends to them . . .

Each man leads away any animals he has branded. . . . Everywhere crops are rotting; clothing, spices, oil are lacking. Filth covers the earth. The government stores are looted, and their guards struck down. People eat grass and drink water. So great is their hunger that they eat the food intended for swine. The dead are thrown into the river; the Nile is a sepulcher. Public records are no longer secret.’

Apparently, the poor, at least for a time, retained the position thus acquired, for economic life and trade regained their normal course; wealth reappeared, though no longer in the same hands: ‘Luxury is widespread, but it is the poor who now are affluent. He who had nothing, possesses treasures, and the great flatter him . . .’

So, the first cycle of Egyptian history ended with the collapse of the Old Kingdom. It had begun with the feudalism that preceded the first political unification.; it closed in anarchy and feudalism. Monarchy sank into feudalism without being directly attacked. In fact, the principle of monarchy could not have been gravely threatened. Perhaps there were a few timid attempts at self-government in the Delta cities, as at Sais. But this was probably a temporary solution dictated by the suddenness of the crisis and the lack of public authority that followed the invasion of the Delta by the Asiatics. Cities on the invasion route were abruptly compelled to assure their own safety as the faced the common enemy. Confronted by this situation, the former provincial governors in Upper and Middle Egypt set themselves up as independent feudal lords, freed henceforth from any royal overlordship, though they did not ever question the principle of monarchy itself. On the contrary, each in his own way was trying to be king; they called themselves kings of their own regions. Apparently the bureaucratic apparatus, which weighed so heavily on the poor, along with royal absolutism, was the main target. . . . After that revolution, all Egyptians had a right to the ‘Osirian death,’ the privilege of survival in the hereafter, previously reserved for the Pharaoh as the only one with a Ka, a soul, in the sky.

Item JE 40679, Third Triad Statue of Menkaure in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt. 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Valley Temple of Menkaure, Giza. King Menkaure with Hathor and the Goddess of the nome Cynopolis

Two facts, however, must be noted. The discontent was strong enough completely to disrupt Egyptian society throughout the entire country. But it lacked direction and coordination, the strength of modern movements. That would have required a level of popular education incompatible with the possibilities and forms of education at the time. Above all, it was the size of the territory that overcame the insurgents. The country was already unified, and royalty could take temporary refuge in the surrounding provinces, if only in the guise of an embryonic feudalism. The sack of Memphis shows that the monarchy could have been definitely conquered and swept away if the Egyptian kingdom were reduced to the size of a single city comparable to the Greek city-state.

In reality, whatever may have been the ‘virtues’ of Egypt’s social organization, it finally created. . . . intolerable abuses and uprisings . . .”

Finally, Chancellor Williams has this to say:

“ [The Anu] refused to accept the cult of Hours that dominated the Nile delta. They, therefore, formed a ‘second nation’ in Upper Egypt [Nubia] and established their national religious shrines at Omnos, Thebes, Thinis and Napata.”

And now my sons, a concluding observation. Our Balanta ancestors, a mix of Bantu and Sudanese origins, traveled from the foot of the Mountains of the Moon and traveled along the river until they reached Wadi Kubbaniya around 17,500 BC.  About 5000 BC they started migrating, some going west all the way to Lake Chad and then following the Niger River and others. Known as the Anu, going north to Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), where they established the first city in human history.

When the traditional ANU culture OF THE BALANTA ANCESTORS became violated with the concepts of leadership and inequality, and faced with the weapons of the murderous Mesintu and cult of Hours at Edfu, our Balanta ancestors chose to migrate to unpopulated areas to continue their egalitarian way of life.

Those who remained in the land of Ta-Meri revolted against the Pharaoh. Thus, it was literally our ancestors, as indicated by the DNA markers E3a*-M2 (also called E1b1a), E-V38, M1 and L0a1 in the Balanta, who created civilization, the first city and the culture of the first dynasty in Kemet.

However, from the perspective of our Balanta ancestors, the establishment of Kemet was not the great and glorious achievement that everyone seems to make it. In fact, it was the END of our great and glorious achievement. That is why they left.

Now you can understand Dr. John Henrik Clarke when he said,

“The early Africans, in building great river civilizations, built a concept which they did not call religion, though your religions came out of them. They called it ‘spirituality’. What they created was a concept of a Force of the Universe, that was much larger than denominations, much larger than the one-dimensional things that eventually man called religions. It had gone beyond the narrow concepts that we live under right now. And it is difficult for you to understand, but that age was man’s highest spiritual and moral age. And that by seizing upon this age, mostly by foreigners who did not understand the original African creation, the spirituality of man regressed, and did not leap forward, but regressed. They organized into pockets and gave it names. But before the African gave it a name but practiced it as a great force of the universe, it was then when it had its greatest value. And foreigners picked out of it little pieces and departmentalized it into religious pockets and started war between one pocket and another, then broke the pockets down into something called denominations, then started war between one denomination and the other”

Now you understand why Credo Mutwa says,

“Tribal historians today still sigh for those days when there was only one race of man and the Spirit of Peace walked the land – when every man woman and child, yea, every beast felt the soothing protection of the soft-eyed, infinitely wise Mothers of the People.

This was the first and last instance in the whole record of the Black People of Africa when pure witchcraft and black magic were used, not to terrorize people, but to keep peace in the land. For hundreds of years peace reigned in the land of the Ba-Ntu and in this atmosphere of peace the Great Belief was born. When eventually this nation broke up into the various tribes the Great Belief had taken such a strong hold on the souls and minds of people that they were completely lost without it."

Our ancestors left Ta-Meri and Ta-Nihisi again during the invasion of the Hyksos, whom our ancestors called ‘the ignoble Asians,’ after the end of the Middle Kingdom from 2500 BC to 2333 BC according to the old chronology and 1675 BC to 1600 BC according to the new chronology. From the first migration out of Ta-Nihisi and Ta-Meri in Nubia and Kemet to the last, there were thirty -three dynasties in Kemet lasting more than three thousand years. However, our concern is with those that left, for it is from them that we are descended.

NOTE: BE CAREFUL OF STUDYING HISTORY WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE. AFRICAN AMERICANS LOST THEIR ANCESTRAL IDENTITIES DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. MOST HAVE NOT TAKEN GENETIC TESTING TO IDENTIFY THEIR ACTUAL ANCESTORS. IN THEIR SEARCH FOR IDENTITY, THEY OFTEN ATTACH TO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING RELATED TO AFRICA. KEMET, OR EGYPT, IS A GREAT EXAMPLE. NOT KNOWING HOW TO READ HIEROGLYPHICS, NOT STUDYING ACTUAL KEMETIC HISTORY FROM THEIR OWN ANCESTRAL PERSPECTIVE, THEY TEND TO GLORIFY THE ‘GREAT’ ACHIEVEMENTS AND ALL THINGS RELATED TO EGYPT WITHOUT KNOWING THAT THEY COULD BE GLORIFYING THEIR HISTORICAL ENEMIES. THE LESSON IS: KNOW THYSELF AND BE DISCRIMINATING IN WHAT YOU STUDY AND PROMOTE. IF I DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER, I WOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT KING SENWOSRET AS IF THAT WERE A CREDIT TO MY ANCESTORS …..

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  • Aug 3, 2025 RBG +126 DELEGATION STARTS VISIT IN BURKINA FASO, VISITS FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE IN THE WEST (FPITW) HEADQUARTERS Aug 3, 2025
• July 2025
  • Jul 26, 2025 Special Envoy to Burkina Faso Siphiwe Baleka Discusses The Global African Struggle Against US Imperialism, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism on Time for an Awakening with Brother Elliott Jul 26, 2025
  • Jul 15, 2025 NEW! CITIZENSHIP UPDATE FOR GUINEA BISSAU, BURKINA FASO AND BENIN Jul 15, 2025
  • Jul 10, 2025 Next Steps Following Historic Mission of the Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Jul 10, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 BLACK INDEPENDENCE DAY LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST JULY 4 Jul 2, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 Honoring the Father of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD): Silis Muhammad and His Interventions On Behalf of Afrodescendant Self Determination Jul 2, 2025
• June 2025
  • Jun 27, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Meets with the President of the Commission for the Alliance of Sahel States Jun 27, 2025
  • Jun 26, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Begins Successful Mission in Burkina Faso Jun 26, 2025
  • Jun 16, 2025 BLACK SUMMER 2025: DECLARATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION FOR NEW AFRIKAN AND AFRODESCENDANT PEOPLES Jun 16, 2025
  • Jun 11, 2025 Another Member of the Balanta Society in America Returns to Guinea Bissau and Receives Passport Jun 11, 2025
  • Jun 10, 2025 NCOBRA International Affairs Commission Hosts Workshop on REPARATIONS, DECOLONIZATION AND SELF DETERMINATION: SPOTLIGHT ON THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, BONAIRE AND ST MAARTE Jun 10, 2025
  • Jun 6, 2025 What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika Jun 6, 2025
• May 2025
  • May 30, 2025 Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora: Burkina Faso Collective Note Naming Siphiwe Baleka Special Envoy May 30, 2025
  • May 29, 2025 AU ECOSOCC DIASPORA CONSULTATIONS CONTINUE TO DISAPPOINT AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE AU 6TH REGION May 29, 2025
  • May 18, 2025 Afro Descendants Receive Their Passports in Guinea Bissau; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Commends President of Guinea Bissau for Recognizing Afro Descendants' Right to Return May 18, 2025
  • May 10, 2025 Afrodescendents’ DNA Testing, Right of Return and Plebiscites Claims Presented at the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights May 10, 2025
• April 2025
  • Apr 30, 2025 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DELIVERS LETTER TO U.S. GENERAL MICHAEL LANGLEY AT THE UNITED STATES LIASON OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN GUINEA BISSAU. Apr 30, 2025
  • Apr 25, 2025 SEND THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND TO THE VATICAN TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS Apr 25, 2025
  • Apr 22, 2025 THE NEW NARRATIVE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION'S THEMED YEAR "REPARATIONS FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS" Apr 22, 2025
  • Apr 20, 2025 Rastafari, Repatriation and Citizenship Case Study in Tanzania: Mzee Saburi Omega, the Face of The Right To Return During the African Union's Themed Year "Reparations". Apr 20, 2025
  • Apr 19, 2025 Exciting News: Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora is FINALISED! Apr 19, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Discussing Decolonization and liberation with Russ Christopher, activist and freedom fighter in the U.S. Virgin Islands Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 9, 2025 Making A Reparations Claim Under the Geneva Convention for the Crime of Ethnocide Resulting from Enslavement Apr 9, 2025
• March 2025
  • Mar 22, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Recommends Groundbreaking DNA Testing, Lineage Restoration, Repatriation and Self Governing Territories to Illinois' African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Mar 22, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 EIN Presswire Refuses to Distribute Press Release about Plebiscite for Reparations for Afro Descendants Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 WHERE TO HOST A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS? THE WAY FORWARD Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 REVISITING THE CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT IN AFRICA TODAY: SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSSES THE DIVISIONS IN THE MOVEMENT Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau May 10-19, 2025 Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION SANKOFA UBUNTU: THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT Mar 12, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025
  • Feb 28, 2025 A Response to Tadesse Simie Metekia's article, AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past Feb 28, 2025
  • Feb 20, 2025 AU ECOSOCC and the African Diaspora 6th Region: Reflections on My Crusade While Returning from the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union Feb 20, 2025
  • Feb 6, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO TEN MORE AFRO DESCENDANTS Feb 6, 2025
• January 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025 SIPHIWE BALEKA SPEAKS ABOUT THE ONGOING LEGACY OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE AT THE COOPERATIVE REPAIR EVENT Jan 20, 2025
  • Jan 16, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO AFRICAN DIASPORA Jan 16, 2025
• December 2024
  • Dec 12, 2024 Bureaucrats, Gatekeepers and the Attempt to Sabotage the African Diaspora 6th Region Elections Dec 12, 2024
  • Dec 1, 2024 African Diaspora Town Hall Meeting With Former Special Advisor to AU-ECOSOCC Ms. Evelyn Joe - "Variance between AU Member States' and AU's Definition of the Diaspora" Dec 1, 2024
• November 2024
  • Nov 17, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ELECTIONS PROCESS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE AU-ECOSOCC 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov 17, 2024
  • Nov 12, 2024 ELECTING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/AU 6TH REGION REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTRAL COUNCIL (AU-ECOSOCC) Nov 12, 2024
  • Nov 8, 2024 PGRNA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nov 8, 2024
• October 2024
  • Oct 22, 2024 CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA Oct 22, 2024
  • Oct 21, 2024 BALANTA SOCIETY PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA RIGHT OF RETURN AT 81ST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Oct 21, 2024
  • Oct 6, 2024 Haitian Leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier speaks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Oct 6, 2024
• September 2024
  • Sep 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations Sep 29, 2024
  • Sep 20, 2024 Balanta Basketball Star From America Plays First Game in Guinea Bissau Sep 20, 2024
  • Sep 1, 2024 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts gets five year residency in Guinea Bissau Sep 1, 2024
• August 2024
  • Aug 13, 2024 FIDDLER AND CHICKEN GEORGE THEN AND NOW: CAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CELEBRITY CHANGE THE GAME? Aug 13, 2024
• July 2024
  • Jul 20, 2024 BALANTA LEADERS SPEAK ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF NEW AFRIKAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Jul 20, 2024
  • Jul 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day Jul 12, 2024
• June 2024
  • Jun 21, 2024 Balanta Leaders Present at Juneteenth Commemoration Highlighting the Need for Reparatory Justice Jun 21, 2024
  • Jun 14, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs on RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation, Black Power Media Network podcast Jun 14, 2024
  • Jun 9, 2024 The Correctness of Shifting from the European "Slave Trade" to the African "War Crimes" Narrative: Notes on José Lingna Nafafé's New Book on the 1684 Mendonça (Kongo) Reparations Case at the Vatican Jun 9, 2024
• May 2024
  • May 29, 2024 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA STILL PRISONERS OF WAR IF THEY HAVE VOTED? May 29, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 WORLD AQUATICS AND THE GUINEA BISSAU NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: FRAUD, THEFT, DISCRIMINATION & CORRUPTION - ILLEGAL PAYMENTS!!!! May 27, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka discussed the UN Permanent Forum and the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 podcast May 27, 2024
  • May 19, 2024 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika addressed the Afrodescendant Nation National Reparations Convention in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2024
  • May 9, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka Concludes Successful Diplomacy Tour in Ougadougu, Burkina Faso May 9, 2024
• April 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 IS THE UN PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THE LATEST REFINEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM? Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Republic of New Afrika: Overview of National Security Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 14, 2024 EARTH DAY 53: WITCHCRAFT, THE NEW AFRIKAN THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MERCY OF DESTINY Apr 14, 2024
• March 2024
  • Mar 25, 2024 BBHAGSIA Dafana Institute Quebo Project Update Mar 25, 2024
  • Mar 16, 2024 DEFENDING THE INTERIM PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA DURING THE SPECIAL ELECTION Mar 16, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024 The United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) 3rd Forum Denies Sponsorship for AfroDescendant Activist Requesting Advisory Opinion from the ICJ Mar 11, 2024
• February 2024
  • Feb 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group Feb 26, 2024
  • Feb 9, 2024 A Balanta Homecoming: Abebenan Visits Tchokmon Village In Guinea Bissau Feb 9, 2024
  • Feb 3, 2024 The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union Feb 3, 2024
• January 2024
  • Jan 25, 2024 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM COMES TO BALANTA PEOPLE IN TINKA VILLAGE, BISSORA SECTOR, OIO REGION, NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jan 25, 2024
  • Jan 4, 2024 A Matter of War: Imari Obadele, Our Enslavement in the 13 Colonies and the United States, the Republic of New Afrika and Reparations Jan 4, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 Plebiscite Workshop at the New Afrikan People's Convention, December 30, 2023 Jan 1, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 WILL 2024 BE THE YEAR OF PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY?: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Jan 1, 2024
• December 2023
  • Dec 16, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka and Kamm Howard: Notes on Reparations & Plebiscite Strategy Dec 16, 2023
• November 2023
  • Nov 28, 2023 STOP CALLING IT A SLAVE TRADE: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE PRISONERS OF WAR! NKECHI TAIFA REFLECTS ON THE TEACHINGS OF IMARI OBADELE Nov 28, 2023
  • Nov 23, 2023 Balanta Society Report from the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023 Nov 23, 2023
  • Nov 22, 2023 Input on the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Under the Geneva Convention Nov 22, 2023
  • Nov 15, 2023 WHO IS AN AFRICAN EXPERT ON REPARATIONS? Nov 15, 2023
  • Nov 4, 2023 What Real Reparations Looks Like: A Visit to the Balanta Village in Rucuto, Guinea Bissau Nov 4, 2023
• October 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023 United States Confronted About State-Sanctioned Ethnocide Against Balanta People at the United Nations Oct 17, 2023
  • Oct 10, 2023 A Letter Urging PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar to Immediately Fulfill the Mandate Given by Civil Society to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Oct 10, 2023
• September 2023
  • Sep 26, 2023 ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL AMMONS AND BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR STATUS, ETHNOCIDE AND THE PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Sep 26, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents at the Future Black America Conference, September 19 Sep 25, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Nkechi Taifa's Human Rights and Justice Podcast: Episode 52 Featuring Siphiwe Baleka Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka meets with the New Minister of Tourism, Faustino Mamadu Saliu Jaló Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 2, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka, President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation meets with the new Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Albino Gomes Sep 2, 2023
• August 2023
  • Aug 10, 2023 AU-ADS Sixth Region High Council Africa Facilitator Calls for Country Facilitators to Assist with The Right To Return Repatriation Process Aug 10, 2023
• July 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Endorse the N’COBRA Health Commission Millions for Mutulu: The Dr. Mutulu Shakur Public Health Peoples Campaign Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Tanya, Susana & the Djola (aka Felupe) Essangai: A Story for the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 25, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Barr’s Official Response to the Mandate Requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion. Jul 25, 2023
  • Jul 21, 2023 UPDATE: Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2023
  • Jul 20, 2023 READ THE PETITION CHARGING THE UNITED STATES WITH ETHNOCIDE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Jul 20, 2023
  • Jul 16, 2023 “Petty Theft” or “Special Op”? Office of Reparations Activist Burglarised, Laptops Stolen Jul 16, 2023
• June 2023
  • Jun 28, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar Agrees to sign a Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Enslaved in the Americas. Jun 28, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023 ENDORSE THE 8TH PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS PART 1 TO BE HELD LATER THIS YEAR IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE Jun 26, 2023
  • Jun 22, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jun 22, 2023
  • Jun 20, 2023 JUNETEENTH: THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION'S RECOGNITION OF NEW AFRIKAN RIGHTS UNDER NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE 14TH AMENDMENT FRAUD & THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF MALCOLM X AND IMARI OBADELE Jun 20, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Balanta Basketball Star from America Arrives in Guinea Bissau during the Decade of Return Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 15, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Reparations Reverend Kwame Kamau and Siphiwe Baleka discuss Pan Africanism, Lineage Restoration and PFPAD Jun 15, 2023
  • Jun 10, 2023 Direct and Certain Causal Nexus: Reparatory Justice for Quantifiable Harms and The Importance of the PFPAD Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jun 10, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 1st Meeting of the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 Will Siphiwe Baleka and the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation be Blocked from the Olympics Again? Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 AN OPEN LETTER TO EPSY CAMPBELL BARR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Jun 2, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 Webinar: I made $100 in my first month posting on the Backroom social media platform - the "Black Facebook". Here's how I did it. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 pm CST Jun 2, 2023
• May 2023
  • May 31, 2023 Justin Hansford's Remarks at the Opening of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) May 31, 2023
  • May 30, 2023 Statement to the 2nd Session of PFPAD: Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ May 30, 2023
  • May 29, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Curtis Murphy on the Fihankra Repatriation and CIA Sabotage May 29, 2023
  • May 28, 2023 The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice May 28, 2023
  • May 25, 2023 ILLINOIS PASSES HR292 RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE DNA TESTING AND REPARATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION TO ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS IN AFRICA - HIGHLIGHTS BALANTAS FROM AMERICA May 25, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 MoAC Biss – Art and Culture Exhibition of Guinea-Bissau May 2023 May 1, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 Balanta Society Statement to the 32nd Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-5, 2023 May 1, 2023
• April 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Present at International Congress entitled “OTHER READINGS ABOUT AMÍLCAR CABRAL” at the University of Lisbon, April 27 and 28th Apr 27, 2023
  • Apr 26, 2023 Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa: Episode 34 - "Reparations Utilizing International Instruments with Siphiwe Balenta" Apr 26, 2023
  • Apr 17, 2023 Global Afrikan Strategic Reparatory Justice Efforts at the PFPAD, ICJ, and AU - The Board As Seen By Siphiwe Baleka Apr 17, 2023
  • Apr 13, 2023 WEWO! Nqpadn Kbonh Issue #1 Apr 13, 2023
  • Apr 4, 2023 Prince Theophilus Tatsitsa Gha and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss the Decade of Return Initiative in Cameroon Apr 4, 2023
• March 2023
  • Mar 31, 2023 Don't Be Fooled! The Vatican's Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is Wordplay! Mar 31, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023 Introducing Alante Daniel Nabicamba Mar 26, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023 5th Preparatory Meeting for the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Definition of the Diaspora Mar 25, 2023
  • Mar 19, 2023 Supporting the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Letters to Africans at Home and Abroad from the Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders Mar 19, 2023
  • Mar 9, 2023 Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders forms to support the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1 to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe Mar 9, 2023
  • Mar 8, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents "Ethnocide: Genocide's Twin Sister" at the 9th Annual Genocide and Human Rights Research Conference Mar 8, 2023
  • Mar 5, 2023 Taking the Afro Descendants Case to the International Court of Justice: A Peoples' Mandate Issued to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Mar 5, 2023
• February 2023
  • Feb 14, 2023 Letter to Pan Africanists Concerning the Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Later This Year Feb 14, 2023
  • Feb 13, 2023 From the 8th Pan African Congress in 2014 to the 8th Pan African Congress in 2023 Feb 13, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 Will there be an African Diaspora regional headquarters for the African Union 6th Region? Upcoming Pan African Congress to make a proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 African Diaspora Ambassadors for the African Union 6th Region: Upcoming Pan African Congress to Make Proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 8, 2023 Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Will Propose a Comprehensive African Union Citizenship Policy for the African Diaspora Feb 8, 2023
• January 2023
  • Jan 22, 2023 Call for Inputs for United Nations Visit to the United States of America 24 April – 5 May 2023 Jan 22, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023 Balanta Society in America President Siphiwe Baleka Discusses the Durban Declaration at Forum on the 7th National Day of Racial Healing Jan 18, 2023
  • Jan 15, 2023 Peanuts, Cashews, Mono-Mercantilism, and Soil Erosion in Guinea Bissau: Amilcar Cabral and George Washington Carver Jan 15, 2023
• December 2022
  • Dec 26, 2022 UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Intervenes in Mumia Abu Jamal's Case Dec 26, 2022
  • Dec 20, 2022 Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update: Important Meeting With Conservador dos Registros Centrais (Keeper of Central Records) Dec 20, 2022
  • Dec 19, 2022 Strategic Reparations Litigation: Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects, Ethnocide and Prisoner of War Claims - A Look at Cases Against France and the United States Dec 19, 2022
  • Dec 14, 2022 Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemì Sàngódáre Nobles and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss Transgenerational Epigentic Effects (TGEE) of Slavery and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM) Dec 14, 2022
  • Dec 12, 2022 NCOBRA's Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 12, 2022
  • Dec 8, 2022 New! Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update Dec 8, 2022
  • Dec 6, 2022 Siphiwe Baleka Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 6, 2022
  • Dec 1, 2022 THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, THE DURBAN DECLARATION, REPATRIATION AND PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Dec 1, 2022
• November 2022
  • Nov 29, 2022 2022 Decade of Return Naming Ceremony in Guinea Bissau for Members of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Nov 29, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022 The Indignity of an African Traveling to Geneva, Switzerland for the Launch of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 17, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022 WILL CAMEROON SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO PEOPLE OF CAMEROONIAN ORIGIN IN THE DIASPORA UNDER A DECADE OF RETURN TO CAMEROON INITIATIVE Nov 13, 2022
  • Nov 6, 2022 Decade of Return to Cameroon: Report on the African Roots and Heritage Foundation and our Meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of External Affairs Nov 6, 2022
  • Nov 5, 2022 THE NEW AFRIKAN THOUGHT CONFERENCE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGES (CERDOTOLA) Nov 5, 2022
• October 2022
  • Oct 26, 2022 New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Oct 26, 2022
  • Oct 15, 2022 NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration Oct 15, 2022
• September 2022
  • Sep 24, 2022 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY J. BLINKEN ON THE 49TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2022
  • Sep 2, 2022 UN Committee Recommends Reparations - A Resource Guide for Understanding Our Struggle For Human Rights in International Forums Sep 2, 2022
• August 2022
  • Aug 27, 2022 MY CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X Aug 27, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka discusses neo-colonialism, organizing, global soil extinction and revolutionary Pan Africanism with Omowale Afrika on the "Going Off Topic" Podcast Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 What Direction Reparations? - Article from the NCOBRA 33rd Annual Convention Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 8, 2022 BBHAGSIA Celebrates Inaugural Dr. Mutulu Shakur Community Health Day With 4 Minute Fit Program Aug 8, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 29, 2022 #SAVESOIL GUINEA BISSAU: REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN (NAIP) AND THE IMPENDING FOOD SECURITY CRISIS Jul 29, 2022
• June 2022
  • Jun 24, 2022 TOWARDS A PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF THE AFRO DESCENDANT COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN IMARI OBADELE READER AND STRATEGIC PLAN Jun 24, 2022
  • Jun 15, 2022 UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS LANDSCAPE IN GUINEA BISSAU AND A PLAN TO FIX IT Jun 15, 2022
  • Jun 13, 2022 RUMO A UMA POLÍTICA DE DIREITO DE RETORNO E CIDADANIA PARA OS DESCENDENTES DE PESSOAS RETIRADAS DE TERRITÓRIOS DA ÁFRICA DURANTE O TRÁFICO TRANSATLÂNTICO E ESCRAVIDÃO DE POVOS AFRICANOS Jun 13, 2022
  • Jun 9, 2022 TOWARDS A RIGHT TO RETURN & CITIZENSHIP POLICY FOR DESCENDENTS OF PEOPLE TAKEN FROM TERRITORIES IN AFRICA DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE Jun 9, 2022
  • Jun 7, 2022 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GUINEA BISSAU’S SWIMMERS: 1ST "DASH FOR CASH" EVENT AND ELITE TEAM SELECTION Jun 7, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 NATAÇÃO, DINHEIRO E DESIGUALDADE GLOBAL: UMA COMPARAÇÃO DO APOIO DADO À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA GUINÉ BISSAU E À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA UCRÂNIA Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 SWIMMING, MONEY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY: A COMPARISON OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE GUINEA BISSAU SWIMMING FEDERATION AND THE UKRAINE SWIMMING FEDERATION Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 AT LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE TO BRING COMPETITIVE SWIMMING TO GUINEA BISSAU Jun 2, 2022
• May 2022
  • May 22, 2022 CURRENT STATUS OF GUINEA BISSAU: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT STATISTICS May 22, 2022
  • May 6, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka Promoting the Global #savesoil movement in Guinea Bissau May 6, 2022
• April 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Joins Launch of the Impact Hub Candidate Bissau Apr 20, 2022
  • Apr 2, 2022 Team SDGB Celebrates Birthday of Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Interim President Siphiwe Baleka Apr 2, 2022
• March 2022
  • Mar 25, 2022 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 22-29, 2022 Mar 25, 2022
  • Mar 8, 2022 Balanta History & Genealogy Society in America Launches T-Shirt Collection Featuring The Teachings of Amilcar Cabral Mar 8, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 RIGHT TO RETURN ALLIANCE SKILLS SURVEY Feb 6, 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 FIRST 50-METER OLYMPIC SWIM TRAINING FACILITY BUILT IN GUINEA BISSAU Feb 6, 2022
• January 2022
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• October 2021
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• May 2021
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  • Apr 7, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: TRIMECHIAH LYNETTE ROGERS Apr 7, 2021
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• March 2021
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• February 2021
  • Feb 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Officially Welcomes Descendants for Decade of Return Events in May and June Feb 23, 2021
  • Feb 17, 2021 Editorial: A Stolen Legacy? - A Critical examination of Barak Obama Post Presidency, and his enduring impact on the collective Black Consciousness Feb 17, 2021
  • Feb 12, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Kamm Howard to Give Testimony at Reparations Hearing Feb 12, 2021
• January 2021
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  • Jan 25, 2021 Afrodescendants' Response to President Biden's Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Jan 25, 2021
  • Jan 19, 2021 Siphiwe Baleka interviewd on NBC Access Daily, Friday January 15, 2021 Jan 19, 2021
  • Jan 16, 2021 BBHAGSIA to Renovate Headquarters and Provide Olympic Training Center for Guinea Bissau Olympic Swim Team Jan 16, 2021
  • Jan 15, 2021 Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 12-15, and June 7-10, 2021 Jan 15, 2021
  • Jan 14, 2021 Naming Ceremony for Nine Members of the Balanta B'urassa History and Genealogy Society in America Jan 14, 2021
  • Jan 12, 2021 Nqpadn kbonh (I have returned) Update for BBHAGSIA Members Sunday, January 17th at 5 pm CST Jan 12, 2021
• December 2020
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  • Dec 9, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Presentation to the 1st Africa Diaspora Summit, Nairobi Kenya Dec 9, 2020
  • Dec 7, 2020 BBHAGSIA Winter Celebration, Sunday, December 13 at 6:00 PM CST Dec 7, 2020
  • Dec 4, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka on the cover of Sports Illustrated Dec 4, 2020
• November 2020
  • Nov 23, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Addresses the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 23, 2020
  • Nov 22, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Conversation with the Pendo Center for Human Rights and Self-Determination Nov 22, 2020
  • Nov 18, 2020 BBHAGSIA President attends session: Anti-Black racism and police brutality: HRDs’ expectations from the UNHRC Nov 18, 2020
  • Nov 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT ATTENDS SESSION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) OF THE AFRICAN UNION Nov 14, 2020
• October 2020
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  • Oct 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA 1st Annual Meeting Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 12, 2020 Gold and Oil: Petrodollars and the United States Attacks in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Understanding Obama’s AFRICOM Betrayal of African People Oct 12, 2020
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• September 2020
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  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA POET SIMONE ROBERTS: WHO AM I? Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 Gambia Balanta Student Association Sep 24, 2020
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• August 2020
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• July 2020
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• June 2020
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• April 2020
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• February 2020
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• October 2019
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  • Oct 10, 2019 SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY VISIT TO EGYPT AND MY MARRIAGE: A CASE STUDY ON MY SECOND ANNIVERSARY Oct 10, 2019
  • Oct 3, 2019 Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates 1st International Masters Swimming Championships Oct 3, 2019
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• September 2019
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  • Sep 19, 2019 A Swimmer's Race: https://myswimpro.com/blog/2019/08/06/a-swimmers-race/ Sep 19, 2019

SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY VISIT TO EGYPT AND MY MARRIAGE: A CASE STUDY ON MY SECOND ANNIVERSARY

“These are for you and your wife. They are for health and prosperity.”

- Adel Mohamed Ahmed, Nubian salesclerk at the Papyrus Museum, 49 Pyramids Street in the Merit Center El Bazar at the Giza Pyramid complex, presenting me and my wife two turquoise scarab talismans.

Today, October 10, 2019, is the second anniversary of my marriage to the love of my life, Zhou YuTong. Our marriage became somewhat famous and you can read about that story here.

Recently, my wife and I traveled to Heliopolis, Egypt in order to compete in the 1st International Masters Swimming Championships. The purpose of traveling all the way to Egypt to compete in this event was more than just athletic. It was spiritual. I explained it in the article, A Swimmer’s Race:

“On September 28, 2010, I received my genetic DNA results from African Ancestry. My paternal DNA was a 100% match with the Balanta people in Guinea Bissau. Since then, I have researched my Balanta ancestry and discovered that they originated in East Africa.  Haplogroup E1b1a is a direct basal branch of Y-chromosome haplogroup E-V38 which originated in the Horn of Africa about 42,300 years before the present. Further research showed that these ancestors of mine migrated down the Nile River and settled a place called Wadi Kubbaniya in modern day Sudan around 18,500 BC.  Research also showed that they continued to migrate down the Nile River and established the first city called Nekhen. By 3200 BC, they had migrated into what is called Upper and Lower Egypt and settled the first areas called Nuits or Nomes. The first Nuit/Nome was called Ta-Seti. The 13th Nuit/Nome that my ancestors settled was called Iunu. In the Bible, it is called “On”. The Greeks called it “Heliopolis” and today, the city is called Cairo. 

On October 4-5, 2019, the Heliopolis Sporting Club in Cairo, Egypt will be hosting the 1st International Swimming Masters Championships. Now you can understand why competing in this event is so important to me. For the first time, the world’s best Masters Swimmers are going to compete in Africa, in the very city that my ancestors founded. It is important to me that one of the descendants of the city’s original founders – me – not only competes but wins. To be honest, I get upset whenever I see that the “African Swimmer of the Year” is in fact, of European origin. This year, Ed Acura gained attention with his short movie, A Film Called Blacks Can’t Swim. I want to make my contribution, my statement, that not only can blacks swim, we can win! I think it is important that one of the champions at this inaugural competition, is a black swimmer. I think it can inspire a new generation of young swimmers as well as adult swimmers on the continent of Africa.”

I accomplished my mission, winning six gold medals for my ancestors and honoring them on the podium. According to the media,  Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates the 1st International Masters Swimming Championships

“It wasn’t his performance in the pool, however, that received the most attention. All eyes were on Baleka because he painted his body in traditional African decorations. Perhaps this was the first time that anyone had ever displayed such African culture in the history of competitive swimming. When asked why he did this, Baleka said, ‘DNA testing shows that my Balanta ancestors were the first people to settle in what is called Egypt today long before the pyramids were built. I wanted to honor them.’” 

So, what does this have to do with my marriage and ancient spirituality?

After the competition, on our last day in Egypt, we went on a tour. We had already been to Khuti, The Great Pyramid designed by Nu-Er-nub-Ari and mistakenly attributed to Pharaoh Khufu, and we had already visited the Egyptian Museum. Now, on the last day, after visiting Khuti and Hu (The Sphinx) for the second time, we stopped at a papyrus museum at 49 Pyramids Street in the Merit Center El Bazar at the Giza Pyramid complex. Here, I met Adel Mohamed Ahmed and this is where the story takes a turn.

Coming to Egypt, I had hoped to make a connection with Nubian people. I knew that their community was located in Aswan and further south. Still, surely, there must be some Nubian people somewhere in Cairo. However, in the city of 22 million people, I saw 99% Arabs. Having read a ton of John Henrik Clarke and Chancellor William’s The Destruction of Black Civilization, as well as a ton of other books on the subject, I saw first hand how this place, Egypt, formerly called Kemet, originally the home to various “black” people, had been invaded by foreigners, and that the entire history of Egypt is the story of how these foreigners attacked and waged a relentless war against these black peoples, and succeeded in taking their land while pushing the black people south into Nubia. For me, seeing all these Arabs in the place that my ancestors originally settled, making a ton of money on tourism to visit the Pyramids that black people built, hurt my spirit.

After watching a demonstration on how my ancestors were the first to create paper from the papyrus plant, I walked around the museum looking at different items. I found a gold chair and asked a man in the store how much it cost. “It’s about US $2,500,” Adel said.

“If I sit on it, do I have to buy it?” I asked him while already sitting in it. He laughed. This was the first conversation I had in Egypt with a black man.

“Where are you from?” I asked.

“Nubia”, he answered. And with that we launched into a conversation about where we come from. He told his story. I told mine. We bonded. And then he said, “My grandfather told me, ‘You are Nubia. We have the roots in maybe Ethiopia and also Guinea Bissau.” Now, in Volume I of my book, Balanta B’urassa, My Sons, Those Who Resist Remain, I document the seven migrations of the Balanta ancient ancestors to and from the Nile Valley prior to 322 B.C. On page 40 I wrote,

“First, since the Balanta E1b1a1 DNA comes from the E-Vs8 Y-chromosome haplogroup which originated in the Horn of Africa 42,300 years before the present, then that means our family history starts in the Horn of Africa and NOT in ‘The Old Land’ near modern day Cameroon (according to Bantu Historian Credo Mutwa). This suggests that our family started in East Africa, migrated to The Old Land, and then migrated back into East Africa and then back to West Africa and finally to Guinea Bissau. Is this possible?

Consider again the statement, haplogroup E in general is believed to have originated in Northeast Africa and was later introduced to West Africa from where it spread around 5,000 years ago to Central, Southern and Southeastern Africa with the Bantu expansion.”

You can imagine my surprise and fascination with the fact that in a city of 22 million people, I meet one Nubian person who tells me that his grandfather told him that his Nubian roots came from both Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau!

That was the first “sign”.

After making our purchases, Ahmed handed me two turquoise scarab beetles, explaining that these were to bring my wife and I health and prosperity.

This was the second “sign.”

In discussing how Totemism and the Cult of Motherhood was created in Volume I of my book, Balanta B’urassa, My Sons, Those Who Resist Remain, on page 186 I quoted Dr. Yosef ben Jochannan, explaining,

“The dung beetle hibernates, goes into the manure of a donkey, horse and the cow, only animals with grass manure. And that beetle remains in there for twenty-eight days; you know that particular beetle died in your mind. And when the beetle finally comes out, what better symbol will you have than the resurrection? . . .  Thus, the beetle became the symbol of resurrection. Of course, the religion itself has started then. Just imagine you’ve got to go back 1000 years and see your woman giving birth to a baby. . . . As you are standing there and this baby comes from the woman’s organ. You witness this . . . . You can’t perceive that you have anything to do with this 10,000 or 5,000 years ago. Witnessing the birth of that baby sets you thinking. You immediately start to transcend your mind, and you also start to attribute this to something beyond. Thus, you start to believe. You start to wonder, why is it here? Where did it come from? And where is it going? Because you are now experiencing birth! But your experience is coming from a woman. Thus, you start to pray, and the woman becomes your Goddess, your first deity. She becomes Goddess Nut, the goddess of the sky; and you become God Geb, the god of the earth. You suddenly see the sun in all of this and you realize that when the sun came the light came; and when the sun went, the light went; when the moon came you saw a moon in there and you don’t see any light because the light is not shining on it. So, you see there is a God, at least there is the major attribute of God because you realize when that doesn’t happen, the crops and the vegetation don’t come.

You also realize that the sun and the moon make the river rise and the Africans recording these factors created the science of astronomy and astrology. Astrology, having nothing to do with your love life. Astronomy is the chart of the scientific data of the movement of the planet and the sun and so forth, to the movement of each other. Astrology is a physical relationship of astronomy, the water rising at the high tide and that is what the ancients spoke about and the division of the two disciplines. . . .

In those days the students would come and read for their education. There were no books to take home, there were no publishing houses like now. You had only one book and most of the subjects were taught orally. . . . So the pre-dynastic period was the period of the introduction of religion, of mathematics and science, engineering, law, medicine and so forth.”

So now that you know the story, let’s analyze my experience according to the 26 Principles of the Great Belief of the Balanta Ancient Ancestors

1.    The purpose of traveling to Egypt was to honor my ancestors who were among the original inhabitants of the area. This was significant because, according to Principle #4  - “The spirits of the first ancestors, highly exalted in the superhuman world, possess extraordinary force inasmuch as they are the founders of the human race and propagators of the divine inheritance of vital human strength.”

2.    On the first day of my visit, I returned to Khuti, the great pyramid, and Hu, the Sphinx. On the second day I visited the Egyptian Museum. This brought me into direct contact with the oldest objects on earth that were possessed by my ancestors. This was significant because, according to Principle #21 – “The fact that a thing has belonged to anyone, that it has been in strict relationship with a person, leads the Bantu to conclude that this thing shares the vital influence of its owner. It is what ethnologists like to call ‘contagious magic, sympathetic magic”; but it is neither contact nor ‘sympathy’ that are the active elements, but solely the vital force of the owner, which acts, as one knows, because it persists in the being of the thing possessed or used by him.”

3.       At the 1st International Masters Swimming Competition, I competed while decorated with the traditional body painting of Nubians engaged in competition. The media described this as “Sorcery”. This was significant because, according to Principles #2 and #3 – “Bantu behavior is centered in a single value: vital force. The Bantu say, in respect of a number of strange practices in which we see neither rhyme nor reason, that their purpose is to acquire life, strength or vital force, to live strongly, that they are to make life stronger, or to assure that force shall remain perpetually in one’s posterity. Force, the potent life, vital energy are the object of prayers and invocations to God, to the spirits and to the dead, as well as of all that is usually called magic, sorcery or magical remedies. The Bantu will tell you that they go to a diviner to learn the words of life, so that he can teach them the way of making life stronger.”

The body painting is a kind of “word of life” to make my vital force energy stronger in the same way that a soldier, wearing a uniform, feels the pride of his country, thereby making him a stronger, tougher, more determined soldier. In addition, Principle #12 -  “In what Europeans call ‘primitive’ magic there is, to Bantu eyes, no operation of supernatural, indeterminate forces, but simply the interaction between natural forces, as they were created by God and as they were put by him at the disposal of men.”

Finally, it was significant because of Principle #22 – “The ‘kilumu’ or ‘nganga’, that is to say the man who possesses a clearer than usual vision of natural forces and their interaction, the man who has the power of selecting these forces and of directing them towards a determinist usage in particular cases, becomes what he is only because he has been ‘seized’ by the living influence of a deceased ancestor or of a spirit, or even because he has been ‘initiated’ by another ‘kilumbu’ or ‘nganga’.”

4.    I won six gold medals. Why is this significant? In Volume II of Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain, I quoted Chancellor Williams, saying,

“The African masses caught it from all directions as their own leaders progressively became ‘Caucasian’ Hamites and Semites, and as many who were unmistakably full-blooded Africans became as predatory as were their known enemies. It appears that from time immemorial, stark greed, the desire for wealth, has overridden all humane considerations. Greed has served as a kind of anesthesia, deadening humane sentiments and breaking the bonds of affection that relates man to man. Greed was triumphant in Egypt from ancient times down into our own century. Egypt was the major slave exchange center in Africa. Nubia (the Northern Sudan) was not only the chief source of supply for slaves, who were marched up the Second Cataract, but it was also the main source of gold, ivory, ostrich feathers, precious stones of many kinds, ebony and animal skins. These goods enriched Egypt in her expanding international trade. A hostile Egypt now stood between the black world and international commerce.”

This is significant because the very reason gold is sought after around the world is because of its vital life force energy – whereas over time just about anything else will erode and decay, gold will retain and preserve its vitality. This is why it is used for currency – it retains its value over time. By winning six gold medals, I symbolically returned this vitality to the ancestors from whom it was stolen and for which they had had suffered constant invasion from foreigners.

5.       Nearly two years ago, I married Zhou YuTong from Liuzhou, China. This is significant because Principles #2, #5, #6 and #11 explains the purpose of marriage - ““Bantu behavior is centered in a single value: vital force. The Bantu say, in respect of a number of strange practices in which we see neither rhyme nor reason, that their purpose is to acquire life, strength or vital force, to live strongly, that they are to make life stronger, or to assure that force shall remain perpetually in one’s posterity…. In the minds of Bantu, all beings in the universe possess vital force of their own: human, animal, vegetable, or inanimate. Each being has been endowed by God with a certain force, capable of strengthening the vital energy of the strongest being of all creation: man…. Supreme happiness, the only kind of blessing, is, to the Bantu, to possess the greatest vital force: the worst misfortune and, in very truth, the only misfortune, is, he thinks, the diminution of this power…. One force will reinforce or weaken another. This causality is in no way supernatural in the sense of going beyond the proper attributes of created nature. It is, on the contrary, a metaphysical causal action which flows out of the very nature of a created being. General knowledge of these activities belongs to the realm of natural knowledge and constitutes philosophy properly so called. The observation of the action of these forces in their specific and concrete applications would constitute Bantu natural science.”

The point of marriage is to find another person that consistently increases your vital force energy and for whom your vital force energy increases theirs, and then have children together. This is a happy marriage. It ensures that the greatest amount of vital life force energy remains perpetually in one’s posterity. One can now understand the real and spiritual danger of being in a toxic marriage. Since I fulfilled my debt to the ancestors by giving them two sons from a woman of African descent, I was free to find a wife that provided the greatest increase to my vital life force energy.

Though generally speaking, Balanta distrust for foreigners was so strong as to preclude marriage with them, Walter Hawthorne notes in his book about the Balanta that, “Through the institution of marriage, tabancas formed powerful alliances with one another. This is certainly the case today and appears to have been historically. Indeed, Armando Moraes e Castro mentioned the practice in a 1925 report about Balanta: ‘Among them there is a very curious custom. If two families are enemies, they make peace by exchanging their children in marriage…. Of particular importance in the ear of the Atlantic slave trade, marriage served to cement bonds of trust between neighboring tabancas.’”

6.       On the last day of my journey to Egypt, a Nubian, a direct descendant of the ancient bloodline, gave me two turquoise scarabs. This is significant because of Principle # 5 - “In the minds of Bantu, all beings in the universe possess vital force of their own: human, animal, vegetable, or inanimate. Each being has been endowed by God with a certain force, capable of strengthening the vital energy of the strongest being of all creation: man.” This is why Albert Churchward, in his book The Origin and Evolution of Religion, writes of my ancestors, “the next stage in the evolution of these Nilotic Negroes was so-called Fetishism – Magic, which may be considered further development of their Sign Language, and should be defined as a reverent regard for Amulets, Talismans, Mascots, Charms, etc. . . . To these Negroes this ‘Fetish’ or ‘Charm’ represents a visible symbol of Magical Power to influence the elemental or ancestral Spirits;

Now we can put all of this together and understand the meaning of my experience in Egypt. Two years ago, today, I married my wife, Zhou YuTong. I promised to love her, cherish her, care for her and protect her for the rest of my life. My intention was to propose to her on the podium after becoming the World Champion in the men’s 45- 49 age group at the world championships, thereby proving that among men my age, I had more vital energy or power in my field of endeavor, than any man alive in the world. Unfortunately, I only managed to achieve four silver medals, and had to settle for having the second most amount of vital energy among my peers in the world. Nevertheless, I proposed, and she accepted. On this day, two years ago, we got married.

Some people criticized me for having a “mixed” marriage as if marrying another non-white (Chinese) person was the same as marrying a white person and thus, a beneficiary of white supremacy. However, I remind such critics that when the Balanta were fighting for their freedom and independence against the Portuguese, Amilcar Cabral, in August of 1960, led a delegation to the People’s Republic of China and it was the Chinese who were the first to give the Balanta freedom fighters weapons and military training. It is often said that in the time of need, you learn who your friends are.

When asked why I wanted to marry Zhou YuTong, a woman who did not speak my language and whose language I did not speak, whose culture was completely different, I could only reply, “She increases my vital energy.” That is just something you feel, you know it when you have it. For two years, our peaceful home-life and my increased vital energy allowed me the two most productive years of my life. Among other things, I published nine books, three of them on the history of the Balanta people. So it was not a coincidence that after completing my books on Balanta and traveling to Egypt to offer them to the ancestors, along with the six gold medals, I should end up in a museum dedicated to the history of paper-making by my ancestors, to be approached by a Nubian man who presented me with the two turquoise (the color of the swimming pool) scarabs (symbols of eternal life) as gifts expressly for me and my wife.

Here I was, after absorbing so much vital life force energy, being presented with the blessings of my ancestors, an acknowledgement that my offerings had been accepted. Perhaps you can begin to understand now the magnitude of the amount of vital life force energy, according to the Great Belief of My Balanta Ancestors’ Ancient Spirituality, contained in the scarab talisman which my wife and I now wear. Whether you think such talismans and charms are mere superstition or not, I have attempted to present a studied analysis of the application of spirituality to real experience. This has nothing to do with Religion.  

• October 2025
  • Oct 31, 2025 ARCHIVE Oct 31, 2025
  • Oct 31, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO EIGHT MORE AFRODESCENDANTS Oct 31, 2025
  • Oct 28, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Champions Afrodescendants' Right of Return and Holds Vatican Accountable for Reparations for Ethnocide @ the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Oct 28, 2025
  • Oct 21, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka and Sânebickté Juliana Yala Nhanca Wedding Ceremony at São Francisco de Assis de Antula, Guinea Bissau Oct 21, 2025
  • Oct 14, 2025 Afrodescendants Right of Return Champion Urges Republic of Guinea Bissau Council of Ministers to Approve Twenty-Nine More Citizenships Oct 14, 2025
  • Oct 11, 2025 Afrodescendants of Burkinabé Origin Petition President Ibrahim Traoré For Citizenship Under Their Right of Return Oct 11, 2025
  • Oct 1, 2025 The Republic of Guinea Bissau to Conduct Civil Marriage Ceremony on the 172nd Anniversary of the Emancipation and First Free Marriage of the Baleka Family in America Oct 1, 2025
• September 2025
  • Sep 9, 2025 HISTORIC BALANTA WEDDING: DAUGHTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT OF GUINEA BISSAU MARRIES LEADER OF THE BALANTAS ENSLAVED IN AMERICA Sep 9, 2025
• August 2025
  • Aug 29, 2025 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHO ARE THE JIHADISTS IN BURKINA FASO, NIGER AND MALI AND WHY THEY ARE WAGING WAR IN THE ALLIANCE OF SAHEL STATES: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION BY THE SPECIAL ENVOY TO BURKINA FASO Aug 29, 2025
  • Aug 27, 2025 WILL THE DECADE OF REPARATIONS RESULT IN THE FOLLY OF THE AU-LED REPARATIONS ELITE CAPTURE? WHY CITIZENSHIP IS THE HEART OF THE PROCESS & THE 1ST PRIORITY IS TO TAKE THE VATICAN TO THE ICJ AND ICC Aug 27, 2025
  • Aug 15, 2025 MESSAGE TO 250 MILLION AFRODESCENDANTS: OUR RIGHT TO RETURN TO AFRICA, REPARATIONS, THE UN, THE AU, THE AES, BURKINA FASO, PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE & THE STATUS OF PAN AFRICANISM Aug 15, 2025
  • Aug 3, 2025 RBG +126 DELEGATION STARTS VISIT IN BURKINA FASO, VISITS FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE IN THE WEST (FPITW) HEADQUARTERS Aug 3, 2025
• July 2025
  • Jul 26, 2025 Special Envoy to Burkina Faso Siphiwe Baleka Discusses The Global African Struggle Against US Imperialism, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism on Time for an Awakening with Brother Elliott Jul 26, 2025
  • Jul 15, 2025 NEW! CITIZENSHIP UPDATE FOR GUINEA BISSAU, BURKINA FASO AND BENIN Jul 15, 2025
  • Jul 10, 2025 Next Steps Following Historic Mission of the Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Jul 10, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 BLACK INDEPENDENCE DAY LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST JULY 4 Jul 2, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 Honoring the Father of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD): Silis Muhammad and His Interventions On Behalf of Afrodescendant Self Determination Jul 2, 2025
• June 2025
  • Jun 27, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Meets with the President of the Commission for the Alliance of Sahel States Jun 27, 2025
  • Jun 26, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Begins Successful Mission in Burkina Faso Jun 26, 2025
  • Jun 16, 2025 BLACK SUMMER 2025: DECLARATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION FOR NEW AFRIKAN AND AFRODESCENDANT PEOPLES Jun 16, 2025
  • Jun 11, 2025 Another Member of the Balanta Society in America Returns to Guinea Bissau and Receives Passport Jun 11, 2025
  • Jun 10, 2025 NCOBRA International Affairs Commission Hosts Workshop on REPARATIONS, DECOLONIZATION AND SELF DETERMINATION: SPOTLIGHT ON THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, BONAIRE AND ST MAARTE Jun 10, 2025
  • Jun 6, 2025 What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika Jun 6, 2025
• May 2025
  • May 30, 2025 Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora: Burkina Faso Collective Note Naming Siphiwe Baleka Special Envoy May 30, 2025
  • May 29, 2025 AU ECOSOCC DIASPORA CONSULTATIONS CONTINUE TO DISAPPOINT AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE AU 6TH REGION May 29, 2025
  • May 18, 2025 Afro Descendants Receive Their Passports in Guinea Bissau; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Commends President of Guinea Bissau for Recognizing Afro Descendants' Right to Return May 18, 2025
  • May 10, 2025 Afrodescendents’ DNA Testing, Right of Return and Plebiscites Claims Presented at the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights May 10, 2025
• April 2025
  • Apr 30, 2025 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DELIVERS LETTER TO U.S. GENERAL MICHAEL LANGLEY AT THE UNITED STATES LIASON OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN GUINEA BISSAU. Apr 30, 2025
  • Apr 25, 2025 SEND THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND TO THE VATICAN TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS Apr 25, 2025
  • Apr 22, 2025 THE NEW NARRATIVE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION'S THEMED YEAR "REPARATIONS FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS" Apr 22, 2025
  • Apr 20, 2025 Rastafari, Repatriation and Citizenship Case Study in Tanzania: Mzee Saburi Omega, the Face of The Right To Return During the African Union's Themed Year "Reparations". Apr 20, 2025
  • Apr 19, 2025 Exciting News: Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora is FINALISED! Apr 19, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Discussing Decolonization and liberation with Russ Christopher, activist and freedom fighter in the U.S. Virgin Islands Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 9, 2025 Making A Reparations Claim Under the Geneva Convention for the Crime of Ethnocide Resulting from Enslavement Apr 9, 2025
• March 2025
  • Mar 22, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Recommends Groundbreaking DNA Testing, Lineage Restoration, Repatriation and Self Governing Territories to Illinois' African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Mar 22, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 EIN Presswire Refuses to Distribute Press Release about Plebiscite for Reparations for Afro Descendants Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 WHERE TO HOST A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS? THE WAY FORWARD Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 REVISITING THE CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT IN AFRICA TODAY: SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSSES THE DIVISIONS IN THE MOVEMENT Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau May 10-19, 2025 Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION SANKOFA UBUNTU: THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT Mar 12, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025
  • Feb 28, 2025 A Response to Tadesse Simie Metekia's article, AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past Feb 28, 2025
  • Feb 20, 2025 AU ECOSOCC and the African Diaspora 6th Region: Reflections on My Crusade While Returning from the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union Feb 20, 2025
  • Feb 6, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO TEN MORE AFRO DESCENDANTS Feb 6, 2025
• January 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025 SIPHIWE BALEKA SPEAKS ABOUT THE ONGOING LEGACY OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE AT THE COOPERATIVE REPAIR EVENT Jan 20, 2025
  • Jan 16, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO AFRICAN DIASPORA Jan 16, 2025
• December 2024
  • Dec 12, 2024 Bureaucrats, Gatekeepers and the Attempt to Sabotage the African Diaspora 6th Region Elections Dec 12, 2024
  • Dec 1, 2024 African Diaspora Town Hall Meeting With Former Special Advisor to AU-ECOSOCC Ms. Evelyn Joe - "Variance between AU Member States' and AU's Definition of the Diaspora" Dec 1, 2024
• November 2024
  • Nov 17, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ELECTIONS PROCESS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE AU-ECOSOCC 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov 17, 2024
  • Nov 12, 2024 ELECTING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/AU 6TH REGION REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTRAL COUNCIL (AU-ECOSOCC) Nov 12, 2024
  • Nov 8, 2024 PGRNA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nov 8, 2024
• October 2024
  • Oct 22, 2024 CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA Oct 22, 2024
  • Oct 21, 2024 BALANTA SOCIETY PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA RIGHT OF RETURN AT 81ST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Oct 21, 2024
  • Oct 6, 2024 Haitian Leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier speaks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Oct 6, 2024
• September 2024
  • Sep 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations Sep 29, 2024
  • Sep 20, 2024 Balanta Basketball Star From America Plays First Game in Guinea Bissau Sep 20, 2024
  • Sep 1, 2024 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts gets five year residency in Guinea Bissau Sep 1, 2024
• August 2024
  • Aug 13, 2024 FIDDLER AND CHICKEN GEORGE THEN AND NOW: CAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CELEBRITY CHANGE THE GAME? Aug 13, 2024
• July 2024
  • Jul 20, 2024 BALANTA LEADERS SPEAK ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF NEW AFRIKAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Jul 20, 2024
  • Jul 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day Jul 12, 2024
• June 2024
  • Jun 21, 2024 Balanta Leaders Present at Juneteenth Commemoration Highlighting the Need for Reparatory Justice Jun 21, 2024
  • Jun 14, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs on RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation, Black Power Media Network podcast Jun 14, 2024
  • Jun 9, 2024 The Correctness of Shifting from the European "Slave Trade" to the African "War Crimes" Narrative: Notes on José Lingna Nafafé's New Book on the 1684 Mendonça (Kongo) Reparations Case at the Vatican Jun 9, 2024
• May 2024
  • May 29, 2024 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA STILL PRISONERS OF WAR IF THEY HAVE VOTED? May 29, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 WORLD AQUATICS AND THE GUINEA BISSAU NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: FRAUD, THEFT, DISCRIMINATION & CORRUPTION - ILLEGAL PAYMENTS!!!! May 27, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka discussed the UN Permanent Forum and the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 podcast May 27, 2024
  • May 19, 2024 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika addressed the Afrodescendant Nation National Reparations Convention in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2024
  • May 9, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka Concludes Successful Diplomacy Tour in Ougadougu, Burkina Faso May 9, 2024
• April 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 IS THE UN PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THE LATEST REFINEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM? Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Republic of New Afrika: Overview of National Security Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 14, 2024 EARTH DAY 53: WITCHCRAFT, THE NEW AFRIKAN THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MERCY OF DESTINY Apr 14, 2024
• March 2024
  • Mar 25, 2024 BBHAGSIA Dafana Institute Quebo Project Update Mar 25, 2024
  • Mar 16, 2024 DEFENDING THE INTERIM PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA DURING THE SPECIAL ELECTION Mar 16, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024 The United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) 3rd Forum Denies Sponsorship for AfroDescendant Activist Requesting Advisory Opinion from the ICJ Mar 11, 2024
• February 2024
  • Feb 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group Feb 26, 2024
  • Feb 9, 2024 A Balanta Homecoming: Abebenan Visits Tchokmon Village In Guinea Bissau Feb 9, 2024
  • Feb 3, 2024 The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union Feb 3, 2024
• January 2024
  • Jan 25, 2024 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM COMES TO BALANTA PEOPLE IN TINKA VILLAGE, BISSORA SECTOR, OIO REGION, NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jan 25, 2024
  • Jan 4, 2024 A Matter of War: Imari Obadele, Our Enslavement in the 13 Colonies and the United States, the Republic of New Afrika and Reparations Jan 4, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 Plebiscite Workshop at the New Afrikan People's Convention, December 30, 2023 Jan 1, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 WILL 2024 BE THE YEAR OF PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY?: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Jan 1, 2024
• December 2023
  • Dec 16, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka and Kamm Howard: Notes on Reparations & Plebiscite Strategy Dec 16, 2023
• November 2023
  • Nov 28, 2023 STOP CALLING IT A SLAVE TRADE: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE PRISONERS OF WAR! NKECHI TAIFA REFLECTS ON THE TEACHINGS OF IMARI OBADELE Nov 28, 2023
  • Nov 23, 2023 Balanta Society Report from the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023 Nov 23, 2023
  • Nov 22, 2023 Input on the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Under the Geneva Convention Nov 22, 2023
  • Nov 15, 2023 WHO IS AN AFRICAN EXPERT ON REPARATIONS? Nov 15, 2023
  • Nov 4, 2023 What Real Reparations Looks Like: A Visit to the Balanta Village in Rucuto, Guinea Bissau Nov 4, 2023
• October 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023 United States Confronted About State-Sanctioned Ethnocide Against Balanta People at the United Nations Oct 17, 2023
  • Oct 10, 2023 A Letter Urging PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar to Immediately Fulfill the Mandate Given by Civil Society to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Oct 10, 2023
• September 2023
  • Sep 26, 2023 ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL AMMONS AND BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR STATUS, ETHNOCIDE AND THE PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Sep 26, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents at the Future Black America Conference, September 19 Sep 25, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Nkechi Taifa's Human Rights and Justice Podcast: Episode 52 Featuring Siphiwe Baleka Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka meets with the New Minister of Tourism, Faustino Mamadu Saliu Jaló Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 2, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka, President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation meets with the new Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Albino Gomes Sep 2, 2023
• August 2023
  • Aug 10, 2023 AU-ADS Sixth Region High Council Africa Facilitator Calls for Country Facilitators to Assist with The Right To Return Repatriation Process Aug 10, 2023
• July 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Endorse the N’COBRA Health Commission Millions for Mutulu: The Dr. Mutulu Shakur Public Health Peoples Campaign Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Tanya, Susana & the Djola (aka Felupe) Essangai: A Story for the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 25, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Barr’s Official Response to the Mandate Requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion. Jul 25, 2023
  • Jul 21, 2023 UPDATE: Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2023
  • Jul 20, 2023 READ THE PETITION CHARGING THE UNITED STATES WITH ETHNOCIDE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Jul 20, 2023
  • Jul 16, 2023 “Petty Theft” or “Special Op”? Office of Reparations Activist Burglarised, Laptops Stolen Jul 16, 2023
• June 2023
  • Jun 28, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar Agrees to sign a Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Enslaved in the Americas. Jun 28, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023 ENDORSE THE 8TH PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS PART 1 TO BE HELD LATER THIS YEAR IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE Jun 26, 2023
  • Jun 22, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jun 22, 2023
  • Jun 20, 2023 JUNETEENTH: THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION'S RECOGNITION OF NEW AFRIKAN RIGHTS UNDER NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE 14TH AMENDMENT FRAUD & THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF MALCOLM X AND IMARI OBADELE Jun 20, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Balanta Basketball Star from America Arrives in Guinea Bissau during the Decade of Return Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 15, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Reparations Reverend Kwame Kamau and Siphiwe Baleka discuss Pan Africanism, Lineage Restoration and PFPAD Jun 15, 2023
  • Jun 10, 2023 Direct and Certain Causal Nexus: Reparatory Justice for Quantifiable Harms and The Importance of the PFPAD Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jun 10, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 1st Meeting of the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 Will Siphiwe Baleka and the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation be Blocked from the Olympics Again? Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 AN OPEN LETTER TO EPSY CAMPBELL BARR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Jun 2, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 Webinar: I made $100 in my first month posting on the Backroom social media platform - the "Black Facebook". Here's how I did it. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 pm CST Jun 2, 2023
• May 2023
  • May 31, 2023 Justin Hansford's Remarks at the Opening of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) May 31, 2023
  • May 30, 2023 Statement to the 2nd Session of PFPAD: Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ May 30, 2023
  • May 29, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Curtis Murphy on the Fihankra Repatriation and CIA Sabotage May 29, 2023
  • May 28, 2023 The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice May 28, 2023
  • May 25, 2023 ILLINOIS PASSES HR292 RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE DNA TESTING AND REPARATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION TO ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS IN AFRICA - HIGHLIGHTS BALANTAS FROM AMERICA May 25, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 MoAC Biss – Art and Culture Exhibition of Guinea-Bissau May 2023 May 1, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 Balanta Society Statement to the 32nd Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-5, 2023 May 1, 2023
• April 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Present at International Congress entitled “OTHER READINGS ABOUT AMÍLCAR CABRAL” at the University of Lisbon, April 27 and 28th Apr 27, 2023
  • Apr 26, 2023 Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa: Episode 34 - "Reparations Utilizing International Instruments with Siphiwe Balenta" Apr 26, 2023
  • Apr 17, 2023 Global Afrikan Strategic Reparatory Justice Efforts at the PFPAD, ICJ, and AU - The Board As Seen By Siphiwe Baleka Apr 17, 2023
  • Apr 13, 2023 WEWO! Nqpadn Kbonh Issue #1 Apr 13, 2023
  • Apr 4, 2023 Prince Theophilus Tatsitsa Gha and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss the Decade of Return Initiative in Cameroon Apr 4, 2023
• March 2023
  • Mar 31, 2023 Don't Be Fooled! The Vatican's Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is Wordplay! Mar 31, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023 Introducing Alante Daniel Nabicamba Mar 26, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023 5th Preparatory Meeting for the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Definition of the Diaspora Mar 25, 2023
  • Mar 19, 2023 Supporting the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Letters to Africans at Home and Abroad from the Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders Mar 19, 2023
  • Mar 9, 2023 Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders forms to support the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1 to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe Mar 9, 2023
  • Mar 8, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents "Ethnocide: Genocide's Twin Sister" at the 9th Annual Genocide and Human Rights Research Conference Mar 8, 2023
  • Mar 5, 2023 Taking the Afro Descendants Case to the International Court of Justice: A Peoples' Mandate Issued to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Mar 5, 2023
• February 2023
  • Feb 14, 2023 Letter to Pan Africanists Concerning the Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Later This Year Feb 14, 2023
  • Feb 13, 2023 From the 8th Pan African Congress in 2014 to the 8th Pan African Congress in 2023 Feb 13, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 Will there be an African Diaspora regional headquarters for the African Union 6th Region? Upcoming Pan African Congress to make a proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 African Diaspora Ambassadors for the African Union 6th Region: Upcoming Pan African Congress to Make Proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 8, 2023 Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Will Propose a Comprehensive African Union Citizenship Policy for the African Diaspora Feb 8, 2023
• January 2023
  • Jan 22, 2023 Call for Inputs for United Nations Visit to the United States of America 24 April – 5 May 2023 Jan 22, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023 Balanta Society in America President Siphiwe Baleka Discusses the Durban Declaration at Forum on the 7th National Day of Racial Healing Jan 18, 2023
  • Jan 15, 2023 Peanuts, Cashews, Mono-Mercantilism, and Soil Erosion in Guinea Bissau: Amilcar Cabral and George Washington Carver Jan 15, 2023
• December 2022
  • Dec 26, 2022 UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Intervenes in Mumia Abu Jamal's Case Dec 26, 2022
  • Dec 20, 2022 Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update: Important Meeting With Conservador dos Registros Centrais (Keeper of Central Records) Dec 20, 2022
  • Dec 19, 2022 Strategic Reparations Litigation: Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects, Ethnocide and Prisoner of War Claims - A Look at Cases Against France and the United States Dec 19, 2022
  • Dec 14, 2022 Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemì Sàngódáre Nobles and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss Transgenerational Epigentic Effects (TGEE) of Slavery and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM) Dec 14, 2022
  • Dec 12, 2022 NCOBRA's Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 12, 2022
  • Dec 8, 2022 New! Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update Dec 8, 2022
  • Dec 6, 2022 Siphiwe Baleka Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 6, 2022
  • Dec 1, 2022 THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, THE DURBAN DECLARATION, REPATRIATION AND PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Dec 1, 2022
• November 2022
  • Nov 29, 2022 2022 Decade of Return Naming Ceremony in Guinea Bissau for Members of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Nov 29, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022 The Indignity of an African Traveling to Geneva, Switzerland for the Launch of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 17, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022 WILL CAMEROON SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO PEOPLE OF CAMEROONIAN ORIGIN IN THE DIASPORA UNDER A DECADE OF RETURN TO CAMEROON INITIATIVE Nov 13, 2022
  • Nov 6, 2022 Decade of Return to Cameroon: Report on the African Roots and Heritage Foundation and our Meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of External Affairs Nov 6, 2022
  • Nov 5, 2022 THE NEW AFRIKAN THOUGHT CONFERENCE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGES (CERDOTOLA) Nov 5, 2022
• October 2022
  • Oct 26, 2022 New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Oct 26, 2022
  • Oct 15, 2022 NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration Oct 15, 2022
• September 2022
  • Sep 24, 2022 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY J. BLINKEN ON THE 49TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2022
  • Sep 2, 2022 UN Committee Recommends Reparations - A Resource Guide for Understanding Our Struggle For Human Rights in International Forums Sep 2, 2022
• August 2022
  • Aug 27, 2022 MY CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X Aug 27, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka discusses neo-colonialism, organizing, global soil extinction and revolutionary Pan Africanism with Omowale Afrika on the "Going Off Topic" Podcast Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 What Direction Reparations? - Article from the NCOBRA 33rd Annual Convention Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 8, 2022 BBHAGSIA Celebrates Inaugural Dr. Mutulu Shakur Community Health Day With 4 Minute Fit Program Aug 8, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 29, 2022 #SAVESOIL GUINEA BISSAU: REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN (NAIP) AND THE IMPENDING FOOD SECURITY CRISIS Jul 29, 2022
• June 2022
  • Jun 24, 2022 TOWARDS A PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF THE AFRO DESCENDANT COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN IMARI OBADELE READER AND STRATEGIC PLAN Jun 24, 2022
  • Jun 15, 2022 UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS LANDSCAPE IN GUINEA BISSAU AND A PLAN TO FIX IT Jun 15, 2022
  • Jun 13, 2022 RUMO A UMA POLÍTICA DE DIREITO DE RETORNO E CIDADANIA PARA OS DESCENDENTES DE PESSOAS RETIRADAS DE TERRITÓRIOS DA ÁFRICA DURANTE O TRÁFICO TRANSATLÂNTICO E ESCRAVIDÃO DE POVOS AFRICANOS Jun 13, 2022
  • Jun 9, 2022 TOWARDS A RIGHT TO RETURN & CITIZENSHIP POLICY FOR DESCENDENTS OF PEOPLE TAKEN FROM TERRITORIES IN AFRICA DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE Jun 9, 2022
  • Jun 7, 2022 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GUINEA BISSAU’S SWIMMERS: 1ST "DASH FOR CASH" EVENT AND ELITE TEAM SELECTION Jun 7, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 NATAÇÃO, DINHEIRO E DESIGUALDADE GLOBAL: UMA COMPARAÇÃO DO APOIO DADO À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA GUINÉ BISSAU E À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA UCRÂNIA Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 SWIMMING, MONEY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY: A COMPARISON OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE GUINEA BISSAU SWIMMING FEDERATION AND THE UKRAINE SWIMMING FEDERATION Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 AT LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE TO BRING COMPETITIVE SWIMMING TO GUINEA BISSAU Jun 2, 2022
• May 2022
  • May 22, 2022 CURRENT STATUS OF GUINEA BISSAU: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT STATISTICS May 22, 2022
  • May 6, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka Promoting the Global #savesoil movement in Guinea Bissau May 6, 2022
• April 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Joins Launch of the Impact Hub Candidate Bissau Apr 20, 2022
  • Apr 2, 2022 Team SDGB Celebrates Birthday of Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Interim President Siphiwe Baleka Apr 2, 2022
• March 2022
  • Mar 25, 2022 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 22-29, 2022 Mar 25, 2022
  • Mar 8, 2022 Balanta History & Genealogy Society in America Launches T-Shirt Collection Featuring The Teachings of Amilcar Cabral Mar 8, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 RIGHT TO RETURN ALLIANCE SKILLS SURVEY Feb 6, 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 FIRST 50-METER OLYMPIC SWIM TRAINING FACILITY BUILT IN GUINEA BISSAU Feb 6, 2022
• January 2022
  • Jan 28, 2022 New Uniforms for Girls Team Provided by Interim President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Siphiwe Baleka Jan 28, 2022
• November 2021
  • Nov 18, 2021 BBHAGSIA President Discusses the COVID Agenda on Discussions of Truth Podcast Nov 18, 2021
  • Nov 8, 2021 Nbuntul a Kraase: Balanta Stories Now Available for First Time Translated into English Nov 8, 2021
  • Nov 2, 2021 BanFaaba and BBHAGSIA Presidents Attend African Union Workshop on Transformational Leadership Across Africa Nov 2, 2021
• October 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Federação de Natação da Guiné-Bissau e Ban-Faaba comemoram o Dia Mundial da Natação Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Swim Federation and Ban-Faaba Celebrate World Swim Day Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 20, 2021 Setting an Example for Afrodescendant Athletes From America: Siphiwe Baleka Represents Guinea Bissau at the 14th African Swimming Championships Oct 20, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 O presidente do BanFaaba, Mario Ceesay, e o coordenador da Década de Retorno, Siphiwe Baleka, se encontram com H.E. Dra. Erieka Bennett, Fundadora e Chefe da Missão, Diáspora Fórum Africano Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 BanFaaba President Mario Ceesay and Decade of Return Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka Meet with H.E. Dr. Erieka Bennett, Founder and Head of Mission, Diaspora African Forum Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 13, 2021 MOTION TO THE AFRICAN UNION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 39th EXTRAORDINARY SESSION DRAFTED BY BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT AND SUBMITTED TO THE AU ECOSOCC SECRETARIAT THROUGH THE ZAMBIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Oct 13, 2021
  • Oct 2, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts Playing Professional Basketball and Lighting It Up at the Armenia Cup. Oct 2, 2021
• September 2021
  • Sep 22, 2021 Consulting a B'sika and Discovering Unche, My Ancestral Village in Guinea Bissau Sep 22, 2021
  • Sep 15, 2021 BAN-FAABA USA Donates Medical Supplies to Village in Encheia, Guinea Bissau Sep 15, 2021
  • Sep 9, 2021 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #4 Sep 9, 2021
• July 2021
  • Jul 21, 2021 A Bumpy Road to the Olympics - Training in Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2021
  • Jul 18, 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 23-30, 2021 Jul 18, 2021
• June 2021
  • Jun 22, 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF GUINEA BISSAU TO AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE DECADE OF RETURN Jun 22, 2021
  • Jun 11, 2021 Guinea Bissau Begins Granting Citizenship to Afrodescendants from the United States Jun 11, 2021
  • Jun 2, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Questionnaire for Organizational Leaders Jun 2, 2021
• May 2021
  • May 27, 2021 Decade of Return To Guinea Bissau 2023 May 27, 2021
• April 2021
  • Apr 26, 2021 Learning from Neely Fuller Jr. About Your Status as A Prisoner of War Under the System of White Supremacy Apr 26, 2021
  • Apr 19, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Self Determination Survey Apr 19, 2021
  • Apr 17, 2021 UPDATED: Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 11-14, and June 8-11, 2021 Apr 17, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: NICOLE VADEN Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 Learning From The Leaders The Personal Cost of African Liberation: Responsibility, Racial Re-Education, Spiritual Re-Conversion, and Class Suicide for a Holy Order of Commitment Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 7, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: TRIMECHIAH LYNETTE ROGERS Apr 7, 2021
  • Apr 1, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Spectra Amanuri Apr 1, 2021
• March 2021
  • Mar 23, 2021 Balanta Kentohé Language Lessons Series 3 Now Available Mar 23, 2021
  • Mar 21, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Jazzy Ellis Mar 21, 2021
  • Mar 9, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Melanie "Duturna" Young Mar 9, 2021
  • Mar 3, 2021 Will Guinea Bissau's "Decade of Return Initiative" Be the Next Big Boon For This Small African Nation? Mar 3, 2021
• February 2021
  • Feb 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Officially Welcomes Descendants for Decade of Return Events in May and June Feb 23, 2021
  • Feb 17, 2021 Editorial: A Stolen Legacy? - A Critical examination of Barak Obama Post Presidency, and his enduring impact on the collective Black Consciousness Feb 17, 2021
  • Feb 12, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Kamm Howard to Give Testimony at Reparations Hearing Feb 12, 2021
• January 2021
  • Jan 30, 2021 Guinea Bissau: Mbontol Fnhénhe (A Love Poem) Jan 30, 2021
  • Jan 25, 2021 Afrodescendants' Response to President Biden's Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Jan 25, 2021
  • Jan 19, 2021 Siphiwe Baleka interviewd on NBC Access Daily, Friday January 15, 2021 Jan 19, 2021
  • Jan 16, 2021 BBHAGSIA to Renovate Headquarters and Provide Olympic Training Center for Guinea Bissau Olympic Swim Team Jan 16, 2021
  • Jan 15, 2021 Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 12-15, and June 7-10, 2021 Jan 15, 2021
  • Jan 14, 2021 Naming Ceremony for Nine Members of the Balanta B'urassa History and Genealogy Society in America Jan 14, 2021
  • Jan 12, 2021 Nqpadn kbonh (I have returned) Update for BBHAGSIA Members Sunday, January 17th at 5 pm CST Jan 12, 2021
• December 2020
  • Dec 10, 2020 STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE AFRODESCENDANT NATION WHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF AFRICANS ENSLAVED IN THE UNITED STATES (DAEUS) ON THE 72ND HUMAN RIGHTS DAY Dec 10, 2020
  • Dec 9, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Presentation to the 1st Africa Diaspora Summit, Nairobi Kenya Dec 9, 2020
  • Dec 7, 2020 BBHAGSIA Winter Celebration, Sunday, December 13 at 6:00 PM CST Dec 7, 2020
  • Dec 4, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka on the cover of Sports Illustrated Dec 4, 2020
• November 2020
  • Nov 23, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Addresses the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 23, 2020
  • Nov 22, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Conversation with the Pendo Center for Human Rights and Self-Determination Nov 22, 2020
  • Nov 18, 2020 BBHAGSIA President attends session: Anti-Black racism and police brutality: HRDs’ expectations from the UNHRC Nov 18, 2020
  • Nov 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT ATTENDS SESSION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) OF THE AFRICAN UNION Nov 14, 2020
• October 2020
  • Oct 15, 2020 Conversation Reparations With NCOBRA: Reparations thru Lineage Restoration Oct 15, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 FIHANKRA CONTROVERSY: A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT REPATRIATION TO AFRICA AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS BASED ON BLACK CAPITALISM Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA 1st Annual Meeting Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 12, 2020 Gold and Oil: Petrodollars and the United States Attacks in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Understanding Obama’s AFRICOM Betrayal of African People Oct 12, 2020
  • Oct 2, 2020 UNDERSTANDING THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY, ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES Oct 2, 2020
• September 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO ON THE 47TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA POET SIMONE ROBERTS: WHO AM I? Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 Gambia Balanta Student Association Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 9, 2020 The Success of Reverend Charles Colcock Jones' Plan to Prevent Negro Insurrection: Christian Mental Slavery & The Family of Jacob Blake Sep 9, 2020
• August 2020
  • Aug 24, 2020 STATEMENT ON THE SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE III, A BALANTA DESCENDANT, IN THE UNITED STATES Aug 24, 2020
  • Aug 17, 2020 REPARATIONS: A REMINDER FROM 18 YEARS AGO. . . . Aug 17, 2020
  • Aug 8, 2020 SPECIAL SCREENING OF FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER SUNDAY AT 6:00 PM CST Aug 8, 2020
  • Aug 7, 2020 AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative: History and Current Status with the AU 6th Region Education Campaign Director Aug 7, 2020
• July 2020
  • Jul 27, 2020 LINEAGE RESTORATION MOVEMENT Jul 27, 2020
  • Jul 22, 2020 CLASH OF CULTURES: EXPLAINING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP TO MY WIFE Jul 22, 2020
  • Jul 6, 2020 INTERPRETING THE 14TH AMENDMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH A VETERAN OF THE BLACK LIBERATION LEGAL STRUGGLE Jul 6, 2020
• June 2020
  • Jun 28, 2020 Balanta B'urassa Founders Day: Celebrating Those Who Resist, August 1, 2020 Chicago, IL Jun 28, 2020
  • Jun 27, 2020 Balanta Society in America Continues Food Distribution in Guinea Bissau Jun 27, 2020
  • Jun 11, 2020 INTEGRATION (ELECTORAL POLITICS) VS. NATIONALISM (SELF DEFENSE) VS. REVOLUTION (BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY): UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF COOPTING BLACK LIBERATION Jun 11, 2020
  • Jun 6, 2020 UNDERSTANDING MY BALANTA FATHER: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THOSE WHO RESIST IN AMERICA Jun 6, 2020
  • Jun 5, 2020 REPORT: BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA AND BAM'FABA DISTRIBUTE FOOD IN SINTCHAM, TANDE AND SAMODJE VILLAGES IN NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jun 5, 2020
  • Jun 1, 2020 EXPLAINING TO MY COLORLESS (WHITE) FRIENDS THE SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PROBLEM AND ENDING THE CIVIL WAR THAT WAS ESCALATED BY THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD Jun 1, 2020
• May 2020
  • May 30, 2020 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND PROTESTERS IN THE WAKE OF THE MURDER BY TORTURE OF GEORGE FLOYD. May 30, 2020
  • May 27, 2020 REVISITING THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY'S MESSAGE TO THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD May 27, 2020
  • May 25, 2020 VIEWPOINTS OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES (ADOS) May 25, 2020
  • May 24, 2020 THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF BALANTA EDUCATION: DEVELOPING CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE May 24, 2020
  • May 22, 2020 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #3 May 22, 2020
  • May 18, 2020 BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA SENDS EMERGENCY FOOD AID TO TCHOKMON VILLAGE May 18, 2020
  • May 2, 2020 WHERE ARE THE REVOLUTIONARIES?: MALCOLM X AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PLUTONOMY OF THE BEFERA OF WHITE SUPREMACY, CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM May 2, 2020
• April 2020
  • Apr 27, 2020 Black Nationalism in America - Cultural, Religious, Economic, Revolutionary: The Need for a Black United Front Apr 27, 2020
  • Apr 26, 2020 LEARNING THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: SLAVE SONGS, REPATRIATION, INSURRECTION, INTEGRATION, NATIONALISM & THE ORIGINAL #ADOS MOVEMENT FROM 1792 TO 1861 Apr 26, 2020
  • Apr 25, 2020 UNITED NATIONS SPONSORED PLEBISCITE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE CRIMINAL AND GENOCIDAL MIDDLE PASSAGE TO THE COLONIES THAT BECAME THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 25, 2020
  • Apr 18, 2020 Dr. Nana Kwame Leroy Frazier’s Visit to The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau Apr 18, 2020
  • Apr 12, 2020 DON'T LET THEM STARVE: AN APPEAL FOR EMERGENCY FOOD AID FOR THE PEOPLE OF GUINEA BISSAU Apr 12, 2020
  • Apr 8, 2020 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY DECISION TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSITY IN 1989 Apr 8, 2020
• March 2020
  • Mar 24, 2020 THE COVID 19 CHRONOLOGY THEY AREN'T SHOWING YOU: PROPAGANDA AND DENIAL ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE PANDEMIC Mar 24, 2020
• February 2020
  • Feb 29, 2020 Guinea Bissau Invites Olympic Legend Jackie Joyner Kersee to Her Ancestral Homeland for Launch of the Decade of Return Initiative Feb 29, 2020
  • Feb 27, 2020 Mental Slavery of Christianity: Its Origin, Development and The Challenge of Cognitive Dissonance to the African Ancestry Movement From the Point of View of Neuroscience and Behavior Change Feb 27, 2020
  • Feb 5, 2020 En Route To Balantaland Feb 5, 2020
  • Feb 2, 2020 Sunday Conference Call Feb 2, 2020
• January 2020
  • Jan 19, 2020 Guinea Bissau Prepares To Launch its "Decade of Return" Initiative: Report of the President of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Mission To Guinea Bissau Jan 19, 2020
• November 2019
  • Nov 11, 2019 THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE IS COMPELLING FORCE: REPARATIONS AND #ADOS Nov 11, 2019
  • Nov 2, 2019 CRITICAL AFRICAN ANCESTRY STUDIES & BALANTA LITERATURE: A REVIEW OF 13 BARS OF IRON BY MALIK K. YARBOROUGH Nov 2, 2019
• October 2019
  • Oct 31, 2019 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES AND CULTURAL HOLIDAYS: BALANTA MAN VS. HALLOWEEN Oct 31, 2019
  • Oct 16, 2019 Return to Khuti Part 2: The Mesintu and Anu Ancestors of the Balanta Oct 16, 2019
  • Oct 10, 2019 SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY VISIT TO EGYPT AND MY MARRIAGE: A CASE STUDY ON MY SECOND ANNIVERSARY Oct 10, 2019
  • Oct 3, 2019 Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates 1st International Masters Swimming Championships Oct 3, 2019
  • Oct 1, 2019 Return to Khuti: The Great Pyramid and Balanta Oct 1, 2019
• September 2019
  • Sep 23, 2019 ON QUESTIONS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY Sep 23, 2019
  • Sep 20, 2019 Reflection and citizenship (article reposted from Facebook by Nafanda Cidadão Camais) Sep 20, 2019
  • Sep 19, 2019 A Swimmer's Race: https://myswimpro.com/blog/2019/08/06/a-swimmers-race/ Sep 19, 2019

Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates 1st International Masters Swimming Championships

Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates First Day of Competition at 1st International Masters Swimming Championships

Cairo, Egypt - Siphiwe Baleka dominated the competition at the 1st International Masters Swimming Championships held at the Heliopolis Sporting Club in Al Shorouq, Egypt just outside of Cairo. He won the 50 M Backstroke, the 50 M Freestyle and the 50 M Breaststroke, all in times faster than the Egyptian National Record for the Men’s 45-49 age group. Baleka won all three races by more than two body lengths.

It wasn’t his performance in the pool, however, that received the most attention. All eyes were on Baleka because he painted his body in traditional African decorations. Perhaps this was the first time that anyone had ever displayed such African culture in the history of competitive swimming. When asked why he did this, Baleka said, “DNA testing shows that my Balanta ancestors were the first people to settle in what is called Egypt today long before the pyramids were built. I wanted  to honor them.” 

Baleka was the lone swimmer from the United States to compete against 394 swimmers from ten countries. When asked why he chose to compete in this event, Baleka said, 

“I have wanted to be a professional athlete since I was a boy. Just because I am 48, I don’t have to give up on that dream. A lot more money is coming into swimming now. World ranked athletes get salaries. Now there is the ISL. Even para-Olympians get major sponsorships. So why not masters swimmers? I want to travel around the world and compete against the best, too. Like Michael Andrews, I want to win all the sprint races in all four strokes. Like Michael Phelps, I want to win 8 gold medals at a meet like Masters World Championships. So I have to find a way to do it. I didn’t have enough money to go to both the FINA Masters World Championships in Gwanju, Korea and this event this year, so I had to make a choice. Here you have an international championship on the African continent and I am the only black swimmer. There’s something wrong with that and we all know why. I decided my presence and world class performance would be more significant on the African continent. MySwimPro let me use their platform to promote a fundraising campaign. My fans raised $3,000 so I could attend. The meet organizers hosted me and paid my in-country expenses. Arena donated a Powerskin suit and other equipment. I wanted to show that not only can blacks swim, they can win. I think I have made a statement here.”

Indeed, Baleka delivered world class performances. His time in the 50 M Backstroke, 30.52 would have been fifth in Gwanju. His 50 M Free time of 24.96 would have been second and his 50 M Breast time of 30.70 would have been 4th. “Those times are not too far from my best, so I am pleased,” Baleka said.

Baleka has three more races tomorrow including the 100 Free, 100 Breast and 50 Fly.

• October 2025
  • Oct 31, 2025 ARCHIVE Oct 31, 2025
  • Oct 31, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO EIGHT MORE AFRODESCENDANTS Oct 31, 2025
  • Oct 28, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Champions Afrodescendants' Right of Return and Holds Vatican Accountable for Reparations for Ethnocide @ the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Oct 28, 2025
  • Oct 21, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka and Sânebickté Juliana Yala Nhanca Wedding Ceremony at São Francisco de Assis de Antula, Guinea Bissau Oct 21, 2025
  • Oct 14, 2025 Afrodescendants Right of Return Champion Urges Republic of Guinea Bissau Council of Ministers to Approve Twenty-Nine More Citizenships Oct 14, 2025
  • Oct 11, 2025 Afrodescendants of Burkinabé Origin Petition President Ibrahim Traoré For Citizenship Under Their Right of Return Oct 11, 2025
  • Oct 1, 2025 The Republic of Guinea Bissau to Conduct Civil Marriage Ceremony on the 172nd Anniversary of the Emancipation and First Free Marriage of the Baleka Family in America Oct 1, 2025
• September 2025
  • Sep 9, 2025 HISTORIC BALANTA WEDDING: DAUGHTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT OF GUINEA BISSAU MARRIES LEADER OF THE BALANTAS ENSLAVED IN AMERICA Sep 9, 2025
• August 2025
  • Aug 29, 2025 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHO ARE THE JIHADISTS IN BURKINA FASO, NIGER AND MALI AND WHY THEY ARE WAGING WAR IN THE ALLIANCE OF SAHEL STATES: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION BY THE SPECIAL ENVOY TO BURKINA FASO Aug 29, 2025
  • Aug 27, 2025 WILL THE DECADE OF REPARATIONS RESULT IN THE FOLLY OF THE AU-LED REPARATIONS ELITE CAPTURE? WHY CITIZENSHIP IS THE HEART OF THE PROCESS & THE 1ST PRIORITY IS TO TAKE THE VATICAN TO THE ICJ AND ICC Aug 27, 2025
  • Aug 15, 2025 MESSAGE TO 250 MILLION AFRODESCENDANTS: OUR RIGHT TO RETURN TO AFRICA, REPARATIONS, THE UN, THE AU, THE AES, BURKINA FASO, PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE & THE STATUS OF PAN AFRICANISM Aug 15, 2025
  • Aug 3, 2025 RBG +126 DELEGATION STARTS VISIT IN BURKINA FASO, VISITS FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE IN THE WEST (FPITW) HEADQUARTERS Aug 3, 2025
• July 2025
  • Jul 26, 2025 Special Envoy to Burkina Faso Siphiwe Baleka Discusses The Global African Struggle Against US Imperialism, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism on Time for an Awakening with Brother Elliott Jul 26, 2025
  • Jul 15, 2025 NEW! CITIZENSHIP UPDATE FOR GUINEA BISSAU, BURKINA FASO AND BENIN Jul 15, 2025
  • Jul 10, 2025 Next Steps Following Historic Mission of the Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Jul 10, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 BLACK INDEPENDENCE DAY LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST JULY 4 Jul 2, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 Honoring the Father of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD): Silis Muhammad and His Interventions On Behalf of Afrodescendant Self Determination Jul 2, 2025
• June 2025
  • Jun 27, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Meets with the President of the Commission for the Alliance of Sahel States Jun 27, 2025
  • Jun 26, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Begins Successful Mission in Burkina Faso Jun 26, 2025
  • Jun 16, 2025 BLACK SUMMER 2025: DECLARATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION FOR NEW AFRIKAN AND AFRODESCENDANT PEOPLES Jun 16, 2025
  • Jun 11, 2025 Another Member of the Balanta Society in America Returns to Guinea Bissau and Receives Passport Jun 11, 2025
  • Jun 10, 2025 NCOBRA International Affairs Commission Hosts Workshop on REPARATIONS, DECOLONIZATION AND SELF DETERMINATION: SPOTLIGHT ON THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, BONAIRE AND ST MAARTE Jun 10, 2025
  • Jun 6, 2025 What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika Jun 6, 2025
• May 2025
  • May 30, 2025 Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora: Burkina Faso Collective Note Naming Siphiwe Baleka Special Envoy May 30, 2025
  • May 29, 2025 AU ECOSOCC DIASPORA CONSULTATIONS CONTINUE TO DISAPPOINT AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE AU 6TH REGION May 29, 2025
  • May 18, 2025 Afro Descendants Receive Their Passports in Guinea Bissau; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Commends President of Guinea Bissau for Recognizing Afro Descendants' Right to Return May 18, 2025
  • May 10, 2025 Afrodescendents’ DNA Testing, Right of Return and Plebiscites Claims Presented at the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights May 10, 2025
• April 2025
  • Apr 30, 2025 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DELIVERS LETTER TO U.S. GENERAL MICHAEL LANGLEY AT THE UNITED STATES LIASON OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN GUINEA BISSAU. Apr 30, 2025
  • Apr 25, 2025 SEND THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND TO THE VATICAN TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS Apr 25, 2025
  • Apr 22, 2025 THE NEW NARRATIVE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION'S THEMED YEAR "REPARATIONS FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS" Apr 22, 2025
  • Apr 20, 2025 Rastafari, Repatriation and Citizenship Case Study in Tanzania: Mzee Saburi Omega, the Face of The Right To Return During the African Union's Themed Year "Reparations". Apr 20, 2025
  • Apr 19, 2025 Exciting News: Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora is FINALISED! Apr 19, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Discussing Decolonization and liberation with Russ Christopher, activist and freedom fighter in the U.S. Virgin Islands Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 9, 2025 Making A Reparations Claim Under the Geneva Convention for the Crime of Ethnocide Resulting from Enslavement Apr 9, 2025
• March 2025
  • Mar 22, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Recommends Groundbreaking DNA Testing, Lineage Restoration, Repatriation and Self Governing Territories to Illinois' African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Mar 22, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 EIN Presswire Refuses to Distribute Press Release about Plebiscite for Reparations for Afro Descendants Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 WHERE TO HOST A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS? THE WAY FORWARD Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 REVISITING THE CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT IN AFRICA TODAY: SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSSES THE DIVISIONS IN THE MOVEMENT Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau May 10-19, 2025 Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION SANKOFA UBUNTU: THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT Mar 12, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025
  • Feb 28, 2025 A Response to Tadesse Simie Metekia's article, AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past Feb 28, 2025
  • Feb 20, 2025 AU ECOSOCC and the African Diaspora 6th Region: Reflections on My Crusade While Returning from the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union Feb 20, 2025
  • Feb 6, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO TEN MORE AFRO DESCENDANTS Feb 6, 2025
• January 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025 SIPHIWE BALEKA SPEAKS ABOUT THE ONGOING LEGACY OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE AT THE COOPERATIVE REPAIR EVENT Jan 20, 2025
  • Jan 16, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO AFRICAN DIASPORA Jan 16, 2025
• December 2024
  • Dec 12, 2024 Bureaucrats, Gatekeepers and the Attempt to Sabotage the African Diaspora 6th Region Elections Dec 12, 2024
  • Dec 1, 2024 African Diaspora Town Hall Meeting With Former Special Advisor to AU-ECOSOCC Ms. Evelyn Joe - "Variance between AU Member States' and AU's Definition of the Diaspora" Dec 1, 2024
• November 2024
  • Nov 17, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ELECTIONS PROCESS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE AU-ECOSOCC 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov 17, 2024
  • Nov 12, 2024 ELECTING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/AU 6TH REGION REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTRAL COUNCIL (AU-ECOSOCC) Nov 12, 2024
  • Nov 8, 2024 PGRNA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nov 8, 2024
• October 2024
  • Oct 22, 2024 CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA Oct 22, 2024
  • Oct 21, 2024 BALANTA SOCIETY PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA RIGHT OF RETURN AT 81ST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Oct 21, 2024
  • Oct 6, 2024 Haitian Leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier speaks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Oct 6, 2024
• September 2024
  • Sep 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations Sep 29, 2024
  • Sep 20, 2024 Balanta Basketball Star From America Plays First Game in Guinea Bissau Sep 20, 2024
  • Sep 1, 2024 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts gets five year residency in Guinea Bissau Sep 1, 2024
• August 2024
  • Aug 13, 2024 FIDDLER AND CHICKEN GEORGE THEN AND NOW: CAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CELEBRITY CHANGE THE GAME? Aug 13, 2024
• July 2024
  • Jul 20, 2024 BALANTA LEADERS SPEAK ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF NEW AFRIKAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Jul 20, 2024
  • Jul 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day Jul 12, 2024
• June 2024
  • Jun 21, 2024 Balanta Leaders Present at Juneteenth Commemoration Highlighting the Need for Reparatory Justice Jun 21, 2024
  • Jun 14, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs on RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation, Black Power Media Network podcast Jun 14, 2024
  • Jun 9, 2024 The Correctness of Shifting from the European "Slave Trade" to the African "War Crimes" Narrative: Notes on José Lingna Nafafé's New Book on the 1684 Mendonça (Kongo) Reparations Case at the Vatican Jun 9, 2024
• May 2024
  • May 29, 2024 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA STILL PRISONERS OF WAR IF THEY HAVE VOTED? May 29, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 WORLD AQUATICS AND THE GUINEA BISSAU NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: FRAUD, THEFT, DISCRIMINATION & CORRUPTION - ILLEGAL PAYMENTS!!!! May 27, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka discussed the UN Permanent Forum and the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 podcast May 27, 2024
  • May 19, 2024 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika addressed the Afrodescendant Nation National Reparations Convention in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2024
  • May 9, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka Concludes Successful Diplomacy Tour in Ougadougu, Burkina Faso May 9, 2024
• April 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 IS THE UN PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THE LATEST REFINEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM? Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Republic of New Afrika: Overview of National Security Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 14, 2024 EARTH DAY 53: WITCHCRAFT, THE NEW AFRIKAN THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MERCY OF DESTINY Apr 14, 2024
• March 2024
  • Mar 25, 2024 BBHAGSIA Dafana Institute Quebo Project Update Mar 25, 2024
  • Mar 16, 2024 DEFENDING THE INTERIM PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA DURING THE SPECIAL ELECTION Mar 16, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024 The United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) 3rd Forum Denies Sponsorship for AfroDescendant Activist Requesting Advisory Opinion from the ICJ Mar 11, 2024
• February 2024
  • Feb 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group Feb 26, 2024
  • Feb 9, 2024 A Balanta Homecoming: Abebenan Visits Tchokmon Village In Guinea Bissau Feb 9, 2024
  • Feb 3, 2024 The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union Feb 3, 2024
• January 2024
  • Jan 25, 2024 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM COMES TO BALANTA PEOPLE IN TINKA VILLAGE, BISSORA SECTOR, OIO REGION, NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jan 25, 2024
  • Jan 4, 2024 A Matter of War: Imari Obadele, Our Enslavement in the 13 Colonies and the United States, the Republic of New Afrika and Reparations Jan 4, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 Plebiscite Workshop at the New Afrikan People's Convention, December 30, 2023 Jan 1, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 WILL 2024 BE THE YEAR OF PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY?: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Jan 1, 2024
• December 2023
  • Dec 16, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka and Kamm Howard: Notes on Reparations & Plebiscite Strategy Dec 16, 2023
• November 2023
  • Nov 28, 2023 STOP CALLING IT A SLAVE TRADE: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE PRISONERS OF WAR! NKECHI TAIFA REFLECTS ON THE TEACHINGS OF IMARI OBADELE Nov 28, 2023
  • Nov 23, 2023 Balanta Society Report from the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023 Nov 23, 2023
  • Nov 22, 2023 Input on the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Under the Geneva Convention Nov 22, 2023
  • Nov 15, 2023 WHO IS AN AFRICAN EXPERT ON REPARATIONS? Nov 15, 2023
  • Nov 4, 2023 What Real Reparations Looks Like: A Visit to the Balanta Village in Rucuto, Guinea Bissau Nov 4, 2023
• October 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023 United States Confronted About State-Sanctioned Ethnocide Against Balanta People at the United Nations Oct 17, 2023
  • Oct 10, 2023 A Letter Urging PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar to Immediately Fulfill the Mandate Given by Civil Society to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Oct 10, 2023
• September 2023
  • Sep 26, 2023 ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL AMMONS AND BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR STATUS, ETHNOCIDE AND THE PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Sep 26, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents at the Future Black America Conference, September 19 Sep 25, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Nkechi Taifa's Human Rights and Justice Podcast: Episode 52 Featuring Siphiwe Baleka Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka meets with the New Minister of Tourism, Faustino Mamadu Saliu Jaló Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 2, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka, President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation meets with the new Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Albino Gomes Sep 2, 2023
• August 2023
  • Aug 10, 2023 AU-ADS Sixth Region High Council Africa Facilitator Calls for Country Facilitators to Assist with The Right To Return Repatriation Process Aug 10, 2023
• July 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Endorse the N’COBRA Health Commission Millions for Mutulu: The Dr. Mutulu Shakur Public Health Peoples Campaign Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Tanya, Susana & the Djola (aka Felupe) Essangai: A Story for the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 25, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Barr’s Official Response to the Mandate Requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion. Jul 25, 2023
  • Jul 21, 2023 UPDATE: Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2023
  • Jul 20, 2023 READ THE PETITION CHARGING THE UNITED STATES WITH ETHNOCIDE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Jul 20, 2023
  • Jul 16, 2023 “Petty Theft” or “Special Op”? Office of Reparations Activist Burglarised, Laptops Stolen Jul 16, 2023
• June 2023
  • Jun 28, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar Agrees to sign a Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Enslaved in the Americas. Jun 28, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023 ENDORSE THE 8TH PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS PART 1 TO BE HELD LATER THIS YEAR IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE Jun 26, 2023
  • Jun 22, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jun 22, 2023
  • Jun 20, 2023 JUNETEENTH: THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION'S RECOGNITION OF NEW AFRIKAN RIGHTS UNDER NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE 14TH AMENDMENT FRAUD & THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF MALCOLM X AND IMARI OBADELE Jun 20, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Balanta Basketball Star from America Arrives in Guinea Bissau during the Decade of Return Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 15, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Reparations Reverend Kwame Kamau and Siphiwe Baleka discuss Pan Africanism, Lineage Restoration and PFPAD Jun 15, 2023
  • Jun 10, 2023 Direct and Certain Causal Nexus: Reparatory Justice for Quantifiable Harms and The Importance of the PFPAD Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jun 10, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 1st Meeting of the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 Will Siphiwe Baleka and the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation be Blocked from the Olympics Again? Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 AN OPEN LETTER TO EPSY CAMPBELL BARR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Jun 2, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 Webinar: I made $100 in my first month posting on the Backroom social media platform - the "Black Facebook". Here's how I did it. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 pm CST Jun 2, 2023
• May 2023
  • May 31, 2023 Justin Hansford's Remarks at the Opening of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) May 31, 2023
  • May 30, 2023 Statement to the 2nd Session of PFPAD: Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ May 30, 2023
  • May 29, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Curtis Murphy on the Fihankra Repatriation and CIA Sabotage May 29, 2023
  • May 28, 2023 The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice May 28, 2023
  • May 25, 2023 ILLINOIS PASSES HR292 RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE DNA TESTING AND REPARATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION TO ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS IN AFRICA - HIGHLIGHTS BALANTAS FROM AMERICA May 25, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 MoAC Biss – Art and Culture Exhibition of Guinea-Bissau May 2023 May 1, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 Balanta Society Statement to the 32nd Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-5, 2023 May 1, 2023
• April 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Present at International Congress entitled “OTHER READINGS ABOUT AMÍLCAR CABRAL” at the University of Lisbon, April 27 and 28th Apr 27, 2023
  • Apr 26, 2023 Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa: Episode 34 - "Reparations Utilizing International Instruments with Siphiwe Balenta" Apr 26, 2023
  • Apr 17, 2023 Global Afrikan Strategic Reparatory Justice Efforts at the PFPAD, ICJ, and AU - The Board As Seen By Siphiwe Baleka Apr 17, 2023
  • Apr 13, 2023 WEWO! Nqpadn Kbonh Issue #1 Apr 13, 2023
  • Apr 4, 2023 Prince Theophilus Tatsitsa Gha and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss the Decade of Return Initiative in Cameroon Apr 4, 2023
• March 2023
  • Mar 31, 2023 Don't Be Fooled! The Vatican's Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is Wordplay! Mar 31, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023 Introducing Alante Daniel Nabicamba Mar 26, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023 5th Preparatory Meeting for the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Definition of the Diaspora Mar 25, 2023
  • Mar 19, 2023 Supporting the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Letters to Africans at Home and Abroad from the Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders Mar 19, 2023
  • Mar 9, 2023 Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders forms to support the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1 to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe Mar 9, 2023
  • Mar 8, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents "Ethnocide: Genocide's Twin Sister" at the 9th Annual Genocide and Human Rights Research Conference Mar 8, 2023
  • Mar 5, 2023 Taking the Afro Descendants Case to the International Court of Justice: A Peoples' Mandate Issued to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Mar 5, 2023
• February 2023
  • Feb 14, 2023 Letter to Pan Africanists Concerning the Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Later This Year Feb 14, 2023
  • Feb 13, 2023 From the 8th Pan African Congress in 2014 to the 8th Pan African Congress in 2023 Feb 13, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 Will there be an African Diaspora regional headquarters for the African Union 6th Region? Upcoming Pan African Congress to make a proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 African Diaspora Ambassadors for the African Union 6th Region: Upcoming Pan African Congress to Make Proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 8, 2023 Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Will Propose a Comprehensive African Union Citizenship Policy for the African Diaspora Feb 8, 2023
• January 2023
  • Jan 22, 2023 Call for Inputs for United Nations Visit to the United States of America 24 April – 5 May 2023 Jan 22, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023 Balanta Society in America President Siphiwe Baleka Discusses the Durban Declaration at Forum on the 7th National Day of Racial Healing Jan 18, 2023
  • Jan 15, 2023 Peanuts, Cashews, Mono-Mercantilism, and Soil Erosion in Guinea Bissau: Amilcar Cabral and George Washington Carver Jan 15, 2023
• December 2022
  • Dec 26, 2022 UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Intervenes in Mumia Abu Jamal's Case Dec 26, 2022
  • Dec 20, 2022 Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update: Important Meeting With Conservador dos Registros Centrais (Keeper of Central Records) Dec 20, 2022
  • Dec 19, 2022 Strategic Reparations Litigation: Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects, Ethnocide and Prisoner of War Claims - A Look at Cases Against France and the United States Dec 19, 2022
  • Dec 14, 2022 Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemì Sàngódáre Nobles and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss Transgenerational Epigentic Effects (TGEE) of Slavery and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM) Dec 14, 2022
  • Dec 12, 2022 NCOBRA's Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 12, 2022
  • Dec 8, 2022 New! Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update Dec 8, 2022
  • Dec 6, 2022 Siphiwe Baleka Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 6, 2022
  • Dec 1, 2022 THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, THE DURBAN DECLARATION, REPATRIATION AND PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Dec 1, 2022
• November 2022
  • Nov 29, 2022 2022 Decade of Return Naming Ceremony in Guinea Bissau for Members of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Nov 29, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022 The Indignity of an African Traveling to Geneva, Switzerland for the Launch of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 17, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022 WILL CAMEROON SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO PEOPLE OF CAMEROONIAN ORIGIN IN THE DIASPORA UNDER A DECADE OF RETURN TO CAMEROON INITIATIVE Nov 13, 2022
  • Nov 6, 2022 Decade of Return to Cameroon: Report on the African Roots and Heritage Foundation and our Meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of External Affairs Nov 6, 2022
  • Nov 5, 2022 THE NEW AFRIKAN THOUGHT CONFERENCE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGES (CERDOTOLA) Nov 5, 2022
• October 2022
  • Oct 26, 2022 New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Oct 26, 2022
  • Oct 15, 2022 NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration Oct 15, 2022
• September 2022
  • Sep 24, 2022 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY J. BLINKEN ON THE 49TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2022
  • Sep 2, 2022 UN Committee Recommends Reparations - A Resource Guide for Understanding Our Struggle For Human Rights in International Forums Sep 2, 2022
• August 2022
  • Aug 27, 2022 MY CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X Aug 27, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka discusses neo-colonialism, organizing, global soil extinction and revolutionary Pan Africanism with Omowale Afrika on the "Going Off Topic" Podcast Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 What Direction Reparations? - Article from the NCOBRA 33rd Annual Convention Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 8, 2022 BBHAGSIA Celebrates Inaugural Dr. Mutulu Shakur Community Health Day With 4 Minute Fit Program Aug 8, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 29, 2022 #SAVESOIL GUINEA BISSAU: REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN (NAIP) AND THE IMPENDING FOOD SECURITY CRISIS Jul 29, 2022
• June 2022
  • Jun 24, 2022 TOWARDS A PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF THE AFRO DESCENDANT COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN IMARI OBADELE READER AND STRATEGIC PLAN Jun 24, 2022
  • Jun 15, 2022 UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS LANDSCAPE IN GUINEA BISSAU AND A PLAN TO FIX IT Jun 15, 2022
  • Jun 13, 2022 RUMO A UMA POLÍTICA DE DIREITO DE RETORNO E CIDADANIA PARA OS DESCENDENTES DE PESSOAS RETIRADAS DE TERRITÓRIOS DA ÁFRICA DURANTE O TRÁFICO TRANSATLÂNTICO E ESCRAVIDÃO DE POVOS AFRICANOS Jun 13, 2022
  • Jun 9, 2022 TOWARDS A RIGHT TO RETURN & CITIZENSHIP POLICY FOR DESCENDENTS OF PEOPLE TAKEN FROM TERRITORIES IN AFRICA DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE Jun 9, 2022
  • Jun 7, 2022 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GUINEA BISSAU’S SWIMMERS: 1ST "DASH FOR CASH" EVENT AND ELITE TEAM SELECTION Jun 7, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 NATAÇÃO, DINHEIRO E DESIGUALDADE GLOBAL: UMA COMPARAÇÃO DO APOIO DADO À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA GUINÉ BISSAU E À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA UCRÂNIA Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 SWIMMING, MONEY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY: A COMPARISON OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE GUINEA BISSAU SWIMMING FEDERATION AND THE UKRAINE SWIMMING FEDERATION Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 AT LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE TO BRING COMPETITIVE SWIMMING TO GUINEA BISSAU Jun 2, 2022
• May 2022
  • May 22, 2022 CURRENT STATUS OF GUINEA BISSAU: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT STATISTICS May 22, 2022
  • May 6, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka Promoting the Global #savesoil movement in Guinea Bissau May 6, 2022
• April 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Joins Launch of the Impact Hub Candidate Bissau Apr 20, 2022
  • Apr 2, 2022 Team SDGB Celebrates Birthday of Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Interim President Siphiwe Baleka Apr 2, 2022
• March 2022
  • Mar 25, 2022 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 22-29, 2022 Mar 25, 2022
  • Mar 8, 2022 Balanta History & Genealogy Society in America Launches T-Shirt Collection Featuring The Teachings of Amilcar Cabral Mar 8, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 RIGHT TO RETURN ALLIANCE SKILLS SURVEY Feb 6, 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 FIRST 50-METER OLYMPIC SWIM TRAINING FACILITY BUILT IN GUINEA BISSAU Feb 6, 2022
• January 2022
  • Jan 28, 2022 New Uniforms for Girls Team Provided by Interim President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Siphiwe Baleka Jan 28, 2022
• November 2021
  • Nov 18, 2021 BBHAGSIA President Discusses the COVID Agenda on Discussions of Truth Podcast Nov 18, 2021
  • Nov 8, 2021 Nbuntul a Kraase: Balanta Stories Now Available for First Time Translated into English Nov 8, 2021
  • Nov 2, 2021 BanFaaba and BBHAGSIA Presidents Attend African Union Workshop on Transformational Leadership Across Africa Nov 2, 2021
• October 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Federação de Natação da Guiné-Bissau e Ban-Faaba comemoram o Dia Mundial da Natação Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Swim Federation and Ban-Faaba Celebrate World Swim Day Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 20, 2021 Setting an Example for Afrodescendant Athletes From America: Siphiwe Baleka Represents Guinea Bissau at the 14th African Swimming Championships Oct 20, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 O presidente do BanFaaba, Mario Ceesay, e o coordenador da Década de Retorno, Siphiwe Baleka, se encontram com H.E. Dra. Erieka Bennett, Fundadora e Chefe da Missão, Diáspora Fórum Africano Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 BanFaaba President Mario Ceesay and Decade of Return Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka Meet with H.E. Dr. Erieka Bennett, Founder and Head of Mission, Diaspora African Forum Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 13, 2021 MOTION TO THE AFRICAN UNION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 39th EXTRAORDINARY SESSION DRAFTED BY BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT AND SUBMITTED TO THE AU ECOSOCC SECRETARIAT THROUGH THE ZAMBIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Oct 13, 2021
  • Oct 2, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts Playing Professional Basketball and Lighting It Up at the Armenia Cup. Oct 2, 2021
• September 2021
  • Sep 22, 2021 Consulting a B'sika and Discovering Unche, My Ancestral Village in Guinea Bissau Sep 22, 2021
  • Sep 15, 2021 BAN-FAABA USA Donates Medical Supplies to Village in Encheia, Guinea Bissau Sep 15, 2021
  • Sep 9, 2021 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #4 Sep 9, 2021
• July 2021
  • Jul 21, 2021 A Bumpy Road to the Olympics - Training in Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2021
  • Jul 18, 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 23-30, 2021 Jul 18, 2021
• June 2021
  • Jun 22, 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF GUINEA BISSAU TO AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE DECADE OF RETURN Jun 22, 2021
  • Jun 11, 2021 Guinea Bissau Begins Granting Citizenship to Afrodescendants from the United States Jun 11, 2021
  • Jun 2, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Questionnaire for Organizational Leaders Jun 2, 2021
• May 2021
  • May 27, 2021 Decade of Return To Guinea Bissau 2023 May 27, 2021
• April 2021
  • Apr 26, 2021 Learning from Neely Fuller Jr. About Your Status as A Prisoner of War Under the System of White Supremacy Apr 26, 2021
  • Apr 19, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Self Determination Survey Apr 19, 2021
  • Apr 17, 2021 UPDATED: Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 11-14, and June 8-11, 2021 Apr 17, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: NICOLE VADEN Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 Learning From The Leaders The Personal Cost of African Liberation: Responsibility, Racial Re-Education, Spiritual Re-Conversion, and Class Suicide for a Holy Order of Commitment Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 7, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: TRIMECHIAH LYNETTE ROGERS Apr 7, 2021
  • Apr 1, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Spectra Amanuri Apr 1, 2021
• March 2021
  • Mar 23, 2021 Balanta Kentohé Language Lessons Series 3 Now Available Mar 23, 2021
  • Mar 21, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Jazzy Ellis Mar 21, 2021
  • Mar 9, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Melanie "Duturna" Young Mar 9, 2021
  • Mar 3, 2021 Will Guinea Bissau's "Decade of Return Initiative" Be the Next Big Boon For This Small African Nation? Mar 3, 2021
• February 2021
  • Feb 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Officially Welcomes Descendants for Decade of Return Events in May and June Feb 23, 2021
  • Feb 17, 2021 Editorial: A Stolen Legacy? - A Critical examination of Barak Obama Post Presidency, and his enduring impact on the collective Black Consciousness Feb 17, 2021
  • Feb 12, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Kamm Howard to Give Testimony at Reparations Hearing Feb 12, 2021
• January 2021
  • Jan 30, 2021 Guinea Bissau: Mbontol Fnhénhe (A Love Poem) Jan 30, 2021
  • Jan 25, 2021 Afrodescendants' Response to President Biden's Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Jan 25, 2021
  • Jan 19, 2021 Siphiwe Baleka interviewd on NBC Access Daily, Friday January 15, 2021 Jan 19, 2021
  • Jan 16, 2021 BBHAGSIA to Renovate Headquarters and Provide Olympic Training Center for Guinea Bissau Olympic Swim Team Jan 16, 2021
  • Jan 15, 2021 Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 12-15, and June 7-10, 2021 Jan 15, 2021
  • Jan 14, 2021 Naming Ceremony for Nine Members of the Balanta B'urassa History and Genealogy Society in America Jan 14, 2021
  • Jan 12, 2021 Nqpadn kbonh (I have returned) Update for BBHAGSIA Members Sunday, January 17th at 5 pm CST Jan 12, 2021
• December 2020
  • Dec 10, 2020 STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE AFRODESCENDANT NATION WHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF AFRICANS ENSLAVED IN THE UNITED STATES (DAEUS) ON THE 72ND HUMAN RIGHTS DAY Dec 10, 2020
  • Dec 9, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Presentation to the 1st Africa Diaspora Summit, Nairobi Kenya Dec 9, 2020
  • Dec 7, 2020 BBHAGSIA Winter Celebration, Sunday, December 13 at 6:00 PM CST Dec 7, 2020
  • Dec 4, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka on the cover of Sports Illustrated Dec 4, 2020
• November 2020
  • Nov 23, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Addresses the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 23, 2020
  • Nov 22, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Conversation with the Pendo Center for Human Rights and Self-Determination Nov 22, 2020
  • Nov 18, 2020 BBHAGSIA President attends session: Anti-Black racism and police brutality: HRDs’ expectations from the UNHRC Nov 18, 2020
  • Nov 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT ATTENDS SESSION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) OF THE AFRICAN UNION Nov 14, 2020
• October 2020
  • Oct 15, 2020 Conversation Reparations With NCOBRA: Reparations thru Lineage Restoration Oct 15, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 FIHANKRA CONTROVERSY: A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT REPATRIATION TO AFRICA AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS BASED ON BLACK CAPITALISM Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA 1st Annual Meeting Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 12, 2020 Gold and Oil: Petrodollars and the United States Attacks in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Understanding Obama’s AFRICOM Betrayal of African People Oct 12, 2020
  • Oct 2, 2020 UNDERSTANDING THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY, ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES Oct 2, 2020
• September 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO ON THE 47TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA POET SIMONE ROBERTS: WHO AM I? Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 Gambia Balanta Student Association Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 9, 2020 The Success of Reverend Charles Colcock Jones' Plan to Prevent Negro Insurrection: Christian Mental Slavery & The Family of Jacob Blake Sep 9, 2020
• August 2020
  • Aug 24, 2020 STATEMENT ON THE SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE III, A BALANTA DESCENDANT, IN THE UNITED STATES Aug 24, 2020
  • Aug 17, 2020 REPARATIONS: A REMINDER FROM 18 YEARS AGO. . . . Aug 17, 2020
  • Aug 8, 2020 SPECIAL SCREENING OF FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER SUNDAY AT 6:00 PM CST Aug 8, 2020
  • Aug 7, 2020 AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative: History and Current Status with the AU 6th Region Education Campaign Director Aug 7, 2020
• July 2020
  • Jul 27, 2020 LINEAGE RESTORATION MOVEMENT Jul 27, 2020
  • Jul 22, 2020 CLASH OF CULTURES: EXPLAINING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP TO MY WIFE Jul 22, 2020
  • Jul 6, 2020 INTERPRETING THE 14TH AMENDMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH A VETERAN OF THE BLACK LIBERATION LEGAL STRUGGLE Jul 6, 2020
• June 2020
  • Jun 28, 2020 Balanta B'urassa Founders Day: Celebrating Those Who Resist, August 1, 2020 Chicago, IL Jun 28, 2020
  • Jun 27, 2020 Balanta Society in America Continues Food Distribution in Guinea Bissau Jun 27, 2020
  • Jun 11, 2020 INTEGRATION (ELECTORAL POLITICS) VS. NATIONALISM (SELF DEFENSE) VS. REVOLUTION (BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY): UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF COOPTING BLACK LIBERATION Jun 11, 2020
  • Jun 6, 2020 UNDERSTANDING MY BALANTA FATHER: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THOSE WHO RESIST IN AMERICA Jun 6, 2020
  • Jun 5, 2020 REPORT: BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA AND BAM'FABA DISTRIBUTE FOOD IN SINTCHAM, TANDE AND SAMODJE VILLAGES IN NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jun 5, 2020
  • Jun 1, 2020 EXPLAINING TO MY COLORLESS (WHITE) FRIENDS THE SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PROBLEM AND ENDING THE CIVIL WAR THAT WAS ESCALATED BY THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD Jun 1, 2020
• May 2020
  • May 30, 2020 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND PROTESTERS IN THE WAKE OF THE MURDER BY TORTURE OF GEORGE FLOYD. May 30, 2020
  • May 27, 2020 REVISITING THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY'S MESSAGE TO THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD May 27, 2020
  • May 25, 2020 VIEWPOINTS OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES (ADOS) May 25, 2020
  • May 24, 2020 THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF BALANTA EDUCATION: DEVELOPING CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE May 24, 2020
  • May 22, 2020 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #3 May 22, 2020
  • May 18, 2020 BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA SENDS EMERGENCY FOOD AID TO TCHOKMON VILLAGE May 18, 2020
  • May 2, 2020 WHERE ARE THE REVOLUTIONARIES?: MALCOLM X AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PLUTONOMY OF THE BEFERA OF WHITE SUPREMACY, CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM May 2, 2020
• April 2020
  • Apr 27, 2020 Black Nationalism in America - Cultural, Religious, Economic, Revolutionary: The Need for a Black United Front Apr 27, 2020
  • Apr 26, 2020 LEARNING THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: SLAVE SONGS, REPATRIATION, INSURRECTION, INTEGRATION, NATIONALISM & THE ORIGINAL #ADOS MOVEMENT FROM 1792 TO 1861 Apr 26, 2020
  • Apr 25, 2020 UNITED NATIONS SPONSORED PLEBISCITE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE CRIMINAL AND GENOCIDAL MIDDLE PASSAGE TO THE COLONIES THAT BECAME THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 25, 2020
  • Apr 18, 2020 Dr. Nana Kwame Leroy Frazier’s Visit to The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau Apr 18, 2020
  • Apr 12, 2020 DON'T LET THEM STARVE: AN APPEAL FOR EMERGENCY FOOD AID FOR THE PEOPLE OF GUINEA BISSAU Apr 12, 2020
  • Apr 8, 2020 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY DECISION TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSITY IN 1989 Apr 8, 2020
• March 2020
  • Mar 24, 2020 THE COVID 19 CHRONOLOGY THEY AREN'T SHOWING YOU: PROPAGANDA AND DENIAL ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE PANDEMIC Mar 24, 2020
• February 2020
  • Feb 29, 2020 Guinea Bissau Invites Olympic Legend Jackie Joyner Kersee to Her Ancestral Homeland for Launch of the Decade of Return Initiative Feb 29, 2020
  • Feb 27, 2020 Mental Slavery of Christianity: Its Origin, Development and The Challenge of Cognitive Dissonance to the African Ancestry Movement From the Point of View of Neuroscience and Behavior Change Feb 27, 2020
  • Feb 5, 2020 En Route To Balantaland Feb 5, 2020
  • Feb 2, 2020 Sunday Conference Call Feb 2, 2020
• January 2020
  • Jan 19, 2020 Guinea Bissau Prepares To Launch its "Decade of Return" Initiative: Report of the President of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Mission To Guinea Bissau Jan 19, 2020
• November 2019
  • Nov 11, 2019 THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE IS COMPELLING FORCE: REPARATIONS AND #ADOS Nov 11, 2019
  • Nov 2, 2019 CRITICAL AFRICAN ANCESTRY STUDIES & BALANTA LITERATURE: A REVIEW OF 13 BARS OF IRON BY MALIK K. YARBOROUGH Nov 2, 2019
• October 2019
  • Oct 31, 2019 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES AND CULTURAL HOLIDAYS: BALANTA MAN VS. HALLOWEEN Oct 31, 2019
  • Oct 16, 2019 Return to Khuti Part 2: The Mesintu and Anu Ancestors of the Balanta Oct 16, 2019
  • Oct 10, 2019 SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY VISIT TO EGYPT AND MY MARRIAGE: A CASE STUDY ON MY SECOND ANNIVERSARY Oct 10, 2019
  • Oct 3, 2019 Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates 1st International Masters Swimming Championships Oct 3, 2019
  • Oct 1, 2019 Return to Khuti: The Great Pyramid and Balanta Oct 1, 2019
• September 2019
  • Sep 23, 2019 ON QUESTIONS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY Sep 23, 2019
  • Sep 20, 2019 Reflection and citizenship (article reposted from Facebook by Nafanda Cidadão Camais) Sep 20, 2019
  • Sep 19, 2019 A Swimmer's Race: https://myswimpro.com/blog/2019/08/06/a-swimmers-race/ Sep 19, 2019

Return to Khuti: The Great Pyramid and Balanta

“The name of the Great Pyramid was “Khuti,” which denotes seven Lights, or Glorious Ones ; it also signifies as Heru-Khuti, the Light, a symbolic representation in stone of Horus the Light of the World and all his doctrines - the doctrines and divine message given to man at this early period to read and learn what he must do and what he has to pass through to attain triumph over darkness (ignorance), so that his Soul and Spirit, after this life, may find everlasting rest and happiness in the presence of the Divine God of Light, and obtain a full knowledge of all things.

This pyramid was built by the old Stellar Cult people of Egypt, the followers of Horus called Mesinu, who were descendants of the earlier Mesenti, or followers of Horus Behutet. The proof of this is still extant.

It is stated on a parchment found in a brick wall in the foundations of Denderah at the time of King Pepi: ‘The Great Pyramid was built by the followers of Horus’, the stellar cult people were the followers of Horus in the same sense as the Christians are the followers of Christ. 

It was built by the old Her-Seshta, or the wise men of Egypt, when they had worked out their Astro-Mythology and the seven mysteries. The architect who drew the plans was Nu-Er-nub-Ari, ‘The Keeper of the Secrets.’ He was the Prince and High Priest of the Nome of ‘The Gazelle’ of Egypt. The Great Pyramid is the Ritual of the seven Mysteries written in stone in ‘Sign Language,’ to be read accurately by anyone who can read and understand this Sign Language. ‘It is an Alter to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt.’...

Herodotus states ‘that ‘Khufu’ (who has been erroneously said to be the builder by many) lived and reigned in Egypt during the Solar Cult, but that Khufu was not the builder.

Manetho, who was a High Priest of Egypt and ‘kept the Records of Egypt,’ states that the Great Pyramid was built at ‘the end of the reign of The Gods and Heroes,’ and that it was built by the followers of Horus. Moreover, he states that the Gods and Heroes were not Humans, nor ever had been Human.

Here is a clear statement that the Stellar Cult people were the builders of the Great Pyramid, because these followed and were evolved from the Hero Cult people, who were Nilotic Negroes, and who came up from the South and settled in Egypt which they divided into seven Nomes, with a totem for each. According to Manetho this Hero Cult, or Cult of the Gods and Heroes, lasted 16,000 years before the Stellar Cult was evolved.

The Great Pyramid was built in the ‘Nome of the Haunch,’ this was not done without reason.” - Albert Churchward, The Origin And Evolution Of Religion.

Churchward then goes on to explain precisely what those reasons were and concludes, “as I read the evidence, it was built during the Astronomical, or Stellar Cult. The Solar Cult lasted about 100,000 years and the Lunar before this for about 50,000 years. The Stellar Cult was anterior to these, and lasted at least 300,000 years; how much longer it is impossible to say, but from remains found of the Stellar Cult people in Pliocene Strata formations they were in existence at least 600,000 years ago. 

If we take the length of the Great Year as 25,827 and divide the total into seven equal parts this gives 3,689 years as the time for the pole star to rest in each of the seven signs, which was recorded by successive Priests as they watched through the great tube (of the Great Pyramid), year after year....

On 11600 B.C. the Pole was represented by the last of the seven Pole Stars in the Constellation of The Man (Heracles). Thus, the myth of the destruction of the human race was founded upon the astronomical base. All the previous deluges were the destruction of the totemic tortoises, jackals, vultures, swans, and apes, crocodiles and hippopotami, that is when one or other of the pole stars representing one of these Zootypes submerged and have place to the next in procession; but the seventh and last represented ‘the Man’, so all these men were mythically destroyed when the submergence of this Pole Star took place: to recommence again another Great Year....

The Pole Star being a star that did not set in the course of the Great Year, there would be seven of these which never set, and they became in one phase the lords of eternity, the seven watchers, the seven glorious ones called the Khuti, the seven judges, the seven lights on one stand (the pole), or the candlestick with seven branches, and various other types; thus the seven servants (seshu) Khuti, Uraes-Gods, saluting seven apes or angels, spirits, or lamps of fire, are depicted round the throne of God according to the mystery of the seven stars in Revelation, But it was not until the time of the Solar Cult (at the time of Ptah) that the seventh Pole Star was imaged as ‘the Man’ in Polaris....

During the whole of the Stellar and Lunar cults there was no Heracles the Man imaged, or depicted - only Zootype forms. Thus, the last of the seven Pole Stars in procession forming the last Great Year lost its place as Polaris 11,600 years ago, and it will be about 14,227 years more before it resumes its place in precession as Polaris. There are records extant left by the Stellar Cult people of ten great years; no record of time could be made until the Great Pyramid was built and the Priests had carefully recorded the time accurately in the precession of the seven Pole Stars- by observation year after year, as seen and noted through the great tube which was built to observe and record time. It would have been impossible to obtain accuracy otherwise.

Therefore it must have been built at least 269,870 years ago. This may be difficult for some people to believe but ‘Records of the Past’ prove it....

The whole of the building of the Great Pyramid is the Ritual portrayed in Stone of the seven Primal Mysteries, the depiction of the Astronomical Stellar Cult Religion. The explanation of all was known only to the old Her-Seshta or Mystery Teachers....”

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH BALANTA PEOPLE?

That will be explained in part 2.

• October 2025
  • Oct 31, 2025 ARCHIVE Oct 31, 2025
  • Oct 31, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO EIGHT MORE AFRODESCENDANTS Oct 31, 2025
  • Oct 28, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Champions Afrodescendants' Right of Return and Holds Vatican Accountable for Reparations for Ethnocide @ the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Oct 28, 2025
  • Oct 21, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka and Sânebickté Juliana Yala Nhanca Wedding Ceremony at São Francisco de Assis de Antula, Guinea Bissau Oct 21, 2025
  • Oct 14, 2025 Afrodescendants Right of Return Champion Urges Republic of Guinea Bissau Council of Ministers to Approve Twenty-Nine More Citizenships Oct 14, 2025
  • Oct 11, 2025 Afrodescendants of Burkinabé Origin Petition President Ibrahim Traoré For Citizenship Under Their Right of Return Oct 11, 2025
  • Oct 1, 2025 The Republic of Guinea Bissau to Conduct Civil Marriage Ceremony on the 172nd Anniversary of the Emancipation and First Free Marriage of the Baleka Family in America Oct 1, 2025
• September 2025
  • Sep 9, 2025 HISTORIC BALANTA WEDDING: DAUGHTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT OF GUINEA BISSAU MARRIES LEADER OF THE BALANTAS ENSLAVED IN AMERICA Sep 9, 2025
• August 2025
  • Aug 29, 2025 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHO ARE THE JIHADISTS IN BURKINA FASO, NIGER AND MALI AND WHY THEY ARE WAGING WAR IN THE ALLIANCE OF SAHEL STATES: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION BY THE SPECIAL ENVOY TO BURKINA FASO Aug 29, 2025
  • Aug 27, 2025 WILL THE DECADE OF REPARATIONS RESULT IN THE FOLLY OF THE AU-LED REPARATIONS ELITE CAPTURE? WHY CITIZENSHIP IS THE HEART OF THE PROCESS & THE 1ST PRIORITY IS TO TAKE THE VATICAN TO THE ICJ AND ICC Aug 27, 2025
  • Aug 15, 2025 MESSAGE TO 250 MILLION AFRODESCENDANTS: OUR RIGHT TO RETURN TO AFRICA, REPARATIONS, THE UN, THE AU, THE AES, BURKINA FASO, PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE & THE STATUS OF PAN AFRICANISM Aug 15, 2025
  • Aug 3, 2025 RBG +126 DELEGATION STARTS VISIT IN BURKINA FASO, VISITS FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE IN THE WEST (FPITW) HEADQUARTERS Aug 3, 2025
• July 2025
  • Jul 26, 2025 Special Envoy to Burkina Faso Siphiwe Baleka Discusses The Global African Struggle Against US Imperialism, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism on Time for an Awakening with Brother Elliott Jul 26, 2025
  • Jul 15, 2025 NEW! CITIZENSHIP UPDATE FOR GUINEA BISSAU, BURKINA FASO AND BENIN Jul 15, 2025
  • Jul 10, 2025 Next Steps Following Historic Mission of the Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Jul 10, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 BLACK INDEPENDENCE DAY LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST JULY 4 Jul 2, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 Honoring the Father of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD): Silis Muhammad and His Interventions On Behalf of Afrodescendant Self Determination Jul 2, 2025
• June 2025
  • Jun 27, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Meets with the President of the Commission for the Alliance of Sahel States Jun 27, 2025
  • Jun 26, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Begins Successful Mission in Burkina Faso Jun 26, 2025
  • Jun 16, 2025 BLACK SUMMER 2025: DECLARATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION FOR NEW AFRIKAN AND AFRODESCENDANT PEOPLES Jun 16, 2025
  • Jun 11, 2025 Another Member of the Balanta Society in America Returns to Guinea Bissau and Receives Passport Jun 11, 2025
  • Jun 10, 2025 NCOBRA International Affairs Commission Hosts Workshop on REPARATIONS, DECOLONIZATION AND SELF DETERMINATION: SPOTLIGHT ON THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, BONAIRE AND ST MAARTE Jun 10, 2025
  • Jun 6, 2025 What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika Jun 6, 2025
• May 2025
  • May 30, 2025 Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora: Burkina Faso Collective Note Naming Siphiwe Baleka Special Envoy May 30, 2025
  • May 29, 2025 AU ECOSOCC DIASPORA CONSULTATIONS CONTINUE TO DISAPPOINT AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE AU 6TH REGION May 29, 2025
  • May 18, 2025 Afro Descendants Receive Their Passports in Guinea Bissau; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Commends President of Guinea Bissau for Recognizing Afro Descendants' Right to Return May 18, 2025
  • May 10, 2025 Afrodescendents’ DNA Testing, Right of Return and Plebiscites Claims Presented at the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights May 10, 2025
• April 2025
  • Apr 30, 2025 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DELIVERS LETTER TO U.S. GENERAL MICHAEL LANGLEY AT THE UNITED STATES LIASON OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN GUINEA BISSAU. Apr 30, 2025
  • Apr 25, 2025 SEND THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND TO THE VATICAN TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS Apr 25, 2025
  • Apr 22, 2025 THE NEW NARRATIVE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION'S THEMED YEAR "REPARATIONS FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS" Apr 22, 2025
  • Apr 20, 2025 Rastafari, Repatriation and Citizenship Case Study in Tanzania: Mzee Saburi Omega, the Face of The Right To Return During the African Union's Themed Year "Reparations". Apr 20, 2025
  • Apr 19, 2025 Exciting News: Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora is FINALISED! Apr 19, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Discussing Decolonization and liberation with Russ Christopher, activist and freedom fighter in the U.S. Virgin Islands Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 9, 2025 Making A Reparations Claim Under the Geneva Convention for the Crime of Ethnocide Resulting from Enslavement Apr 9, 2025
• March 2025
  • Mar 22, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Recommends Groundbreaking DNA Testing, Lineage Restoration, Repatriation and Self Governing Territories to Illinois' African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Mar 22, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 EIN Presswire Refuses to Distribute Press Release about Plebiscite for Reparations for Afro Descendants Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 WHERE TO HOST A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS? THE WAY FORWARD Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 REVISITING THE CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT IN AFRICA TODAY: SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSSES THE DIVISIONS IN THE MOVEMENT Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau May 10-19, 2025 Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION SANKOFA UBUNTU: THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT Mar 12, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025
  • Feb 28, 2025 A Response to Tadesse Simie Metekia's article, AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past Feb 28, 2025
  • Feb 20, 2025 AU ECOSOCC and the African Diaspora 6th Region: Reflections on My Crusade While Returning from the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union Feb 20, 2025
  • Feb 6, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO TEN MORE AFRO DESCENDANTS Feb 6, 2025
• January 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025 SIPHIWE BALEKA SPEAKS ABOUT THE ONGOING LEGACY OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE AT THE COOPERATIVE REPAIR EVENT Jan 20, 2025
  • Jan 16, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO AFRICAN DIASPORA Jan 16, 2025
• December 2024
  • Dec 12, 2024 Bureaucrats, Gatekeepers and the Attempt to Sabotage the African Diaspora 6th Region Elections Dec 12, 2024
  • Dec 1, 2024 African Diaspora Town Hall Meeting With Former Special Advisor to AU-ECOSOCC Ms. Evelyn Joe - "Variance between AU Member States' and AU's Definition of the Diaspora" Dec 1, 2024
• November 2024
  • Nov 17, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ELECTIONS PROCESS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE AU-ECOSOCC 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov 17, 2024
  • Nov 12, 2024 ELECTING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/AU 6TH REGION REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTRAL COUNCIL (AU-ECOSOCC) Nov 12, 2024
  • Nov 8, 2024 PGRNA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nov 8, 2024
• October 2024
  • Oct 22, 2024 CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA Oct 22, 2024
  • Oct 21, 2024 BALANTA SOCIETY PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA RIGHT OF RETURN AT 81ST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Oct 21, 2024
  • Oct 6, 2024 Haitian Leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier speaks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Oct 6, 2024
• September 2024
  • Sep 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations Sep 29, 2024
  • Sep 20, 2024 Balanta Basketball Star From America Plays First Game in Guinea Bissau Sep 20, 2024
  • Sep 1, 2024 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts gets five year residency in Guinea Bissau Sep 1, 2024
• August 2024
  • Aug 13, 2024 FIDDLER AND CHICKEN GEORGE THEN AND NOW: CAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CELEBRITY CHANGE THE GAME? Aug 13, 2024
• July 2024
  • Jul 20, 2024 BALANTA LEADERS SPEAK ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF NEW AFRIKAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Jul 20, 2024
  • Jul 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day Jul 12, 2024
• June 2024
  • Jun 21, 2024 Balanta Leaders Present at Juneteenth Commemoration Highlighting the Need for Reparatory Justice Jun 21, 2024
  • Jun 14, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs on RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation, Black Power Media Network podcast Jun 14, 2024
  • Jun 9, 2024 The Correctness of Shifting from the European "Slave Trade" to the African "War Crimes" Narrative: Notes on José Lingna Nafafé's New Book on the 1684 Mendonça (Kongo) Reparations Case at the Vatican Jun 9, 2024
• May 2024
  • May 29, 2024 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA STILL PRISONERS OF WAR IF THEY HAVE VOTED? May 29, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 WORLD AQUATICS AND THE GUINEA BISSAU NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: FRAUD, THEFT, DISCRIMINATION & CORRUPTION - ILLEGAL PAYMENTS!!!! May 27, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka discussed the UN Permanent Forum and the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 podcast May 27, 2024
  • May 19, 2024 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika addressed the Afrodescendant Nation National Reparations Convention in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2024
  • May 9, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka Concludes Successful Diplomacy Tour in Ougadougu, Burkina Faso May 9, 2024
• April 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 IS THE UN PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THE LATEST REFINEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM? Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Republic of New Afrika: Overview of National Security Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 14, 2024 EARTH DAY 53: WITCHCRAFT, THE NEW AFRIKAN THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MERCY OF DESTINY Apr 14, 2024
• March 2024
  • Mar 25, 2024 BBHAGSIA Dafana Institute Quebo Project Update Mar 25, 2024
  • Mar 16, 2024 DEFENDING THE INTERIM PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA DURING THE SPECIAL ELECTION Mar 16, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024 The United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) 3rd Forum Denies Sponsorship for AfroDescendant Activist Requesting Advisory Opinion from the ICJ Mar 11, 2024
• February 2024
  • Feb 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group Feb 26, 2024
  • Feb 9, 2024 A Balanta Homecoming: Abebenan Visits Tchokmon Village In Guinea Bissau Feb 9, 2024
  • Feb 3, 2024 The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union Feb 3, 2024
• January 2024
  • Jan 25, 2024 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM COMES TO BALANTA PEOPLE IN TINKA VILLAGE, BISSORA SECTOR, OIO REGION, NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jan 25, 2024
  • Jan 4, 2024 A Matter of War: Imari Obadele, Our Enslavement in the 13 Colonies and the United States, the Republic of New Afrika and Reparations Jan 4, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 Plebiscite Workshop at the New Afrikan People's Convention, December 30, 2023 Jan 1, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 WILL 2024 BE THE YEAR OF PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY?: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Jan 1, 2024
• December 2023
  • Dec 16, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka and Kamm Howard: Notes on Reparations & Plebiscite Strategy Dec 16, 2023
• November 2023
  • Nov 28, 2023 STOP CALLING IT A SLAVE TRADE: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE PRISONERS OF WAR! NKECHI TAIFA REFLECTS ON THE TEACHINGS OF IMARI OBADELE Nov 28, 2023
  • Nov 23, 2023 Balanta Society Report from the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023 Nov 23, 2023
  • Nov 22, 2023 Input on the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Under the Geneva Convention Nov 22, 2023
  • Nov 15, 2023 WHO IS AN AFRICAN EXPERT ON REPARATIONS? Nov 15, 2023
  • Nov 4, 2023 What Real Reparations Looks Like: A Visit to the Balanta Village in Rucuto, Guinea Bissau Nov 4, 2023
• October 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023 United States Confronted About State-Sanctioned Ethnocide Against Balanta People at the United Nations Oct 17, 2023
  • Oct 10, 2023 A Letter Urging PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar to Immediately Fulfill the Mandate Given by Civil Society to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Oct 10, 2023
• September 2023
  • Sep 26, 2023 ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL AMMONS AND BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR STATUS, ETHNOCIDE AND THE PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Sep 26, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents at the Future Black America Conference, September 19 Sep 25, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Nkechi Taifa's Human Rights and Justice Podcast: Episode 52 Featuring Siphiwe Baleka Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka meets with the New Minister of Tourism, Faustino Mamadu Saliu Jaló Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 2, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka, President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation meets with the new Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Albino Gomes Sep 2, 2023
• August 2023
  • Aug 10, 2023 AU-ADS Sixth Region High Council Africa Facilitator Calls for Country Facilitators to Assist with The Right To Return Repatriation Process Aug 10, 2023
• July 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Endorse the N’COBRA Health Commission Millions for Mutulu: The Dr. Mutulu Shakur Public Health Peoples Campaign Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Tanya, Susana & the Djola (aka Felupe) Essangai: A Story for the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 25, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Barr’s Official Response to the Mandate Requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion. Jul 25, 2023
  • Jul 21, 2023 UPDATE: Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2023
  • Jul 20, 2023 READ THE PETITION CHARGING THE UNITED STATES WITH ETHNOCIDE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Jul 20, 2023
  • Jul 16, 2023 “Petty Theft” or “Special Op”? Office of Reparations Activist Burglarised, Laptops Stolen Jul 16, 2023
• June 2023
  • Jun 28, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar Agrees to sign a Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Enslaved in the Americas. Jun 28, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023 ENDORSE THE 8TH PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS PART 1 TO BE HELD LATER THIS YEAR IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE Jun 26, 2023
  • Jun 22, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jun 22, 2023
  • Jun 20, 2023 JUNETEENTH: THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION'S RECOGNITION OF NEW AFRIKAN RIGHTS UNDER NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE 14TH AMENDMENT FRAUD & THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF MALCOLM X AND IMARI OBADELE Jun 20, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Balanta Basketball Star from America Arrives in Guinea Bissau during the Decade of Return Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 15, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Reparations Reverend Kwame Kamau and Siphiwe Baleka discuss Pan Africanism, Lineage Restoration and PFPAD Jun 15, 2023
  • Jun 10, 2023 Direct and Certain Causal Nexus: Reparatory Justice for Quantifiable Harms and The Importance of the PFPAD Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jun 10, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 1st Meeting of the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 Will Siphiwe Baleka and the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation be Blocked from the Olympics Again? Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 AN OPEN LETTER TO EPSY CAMPBELL BARR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Jun 2, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 Webinar: I made $100 in my first month posting on the Backroom social media platform - the "Black Facebook". Here's how I did it. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 pm CST Jun 2, 2023
• May 2023
  • May 31, 2023 Justin Hansford's Remarks at the Opening of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) May 31, 2023
  • May 30, 2023 Statement to the 2nd Session of PFPAD: Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ May 30, 2023
  • May 29, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Curtis Murphy on the Fihankra Repatriation and CIA Sabotage May 29, 2023
  • May 28, 2023 The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice May 28, 2023
  • May 25, 2023 ILLINOIS PASSES HR292 RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE DNA TESTING AND REPARATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION TO ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS IN AFRICA - HIGHLIGHTS BALANTAS FROM AMERICA May 25, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 MoAC Biss – Art and Culture Exhibition of Guinea-Bissau May 2023 May 1, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 Balanta Society Statement to the 32nd Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-5, 2023 May 1, 2023
• April 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Present at International Congress entitled “OTHER READINGS ABOUT AMÍLCAR CABRAL” at the University of Lisbon, April 27 and 28th Apr 27, 2023
  • Apr 26, 2023 Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa: Episode 34 - "Reparations Utilizing International Instruments with Siphiwe Balenta" Apr 26, 2023
  • Apr 17, 2023 Global Afrikan Strategic Reparatory Justice Efforts at the PFPAD, ICJ, and AU - The Board As Seen By Siphiwe Baleka Apr 17, 2023
  • Apr 13, 2023 WEWO! Nqpadn Kbonh Issue #1 Apr 13, 2023
  • Apr 4, 2023 Prince Theophilus Tatsitsa Gha and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss the Decade of Return Initiative in Cameroon Apr 4, 2023
• March 2023
  • Mar 31, 2023 Don't Be Fooled! The Vatican's Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is Wordplay! Mar 31, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023 Introducing Alante Daniel Nabicamba Mar 26, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023 5th Preparatory Meeting for the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Definition of the Diaspora Mar 25, 2023
  • Mar 19, 2023 Supporting the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Letters to Africans at Home and Abroad from the Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders Mar 19, 2023
  • Mar 9, 2023 Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders forms to support the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1 to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe Mar 9, 2023
  • Mar 8, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents "Ethnocide: Genocide's Twin Sister" at the 9th Annual Genocide and Human Rights Research Conference Mar 8, 2023
  • Mar 5, 2023 Taking the Afro Descendants Case to the International Court of Justice: A Peoples' Mandate Issued to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Mar 5, 2023
• February 2023
  • Feb 14, 2023 Letter to Pan Africanists Concerning the Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Later This Year Feb 14, 2023
  • Feb 13, 2023 From the 8th Pan African Congress in 2014 to the 8th Pan African Congress in 2023 Feb 13, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 Will there be an African Diaspora regional headquarters for the African Union 6th Region? Upcoming Pan African Congress to make a proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 African Diaspora Ambassadors for the African Union 6th Region: Upcoming Pan African Congress to Make Proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 8, 2023 Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Will Propose a Comprehensive African Union Citizenship Policy for the African Diaspora Feb 8, 2023
• January 2023
  • Jan 22, 2023 Call for Inputs for United Nations Visit to the United States of America 24 April – 5 May 2023 Jan 22, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023 Balanta Society in America President Siphiwe Baleka Discusses the Durban Declaration at Forum on the 7th National Day of Racial Healing Jan 18, 2023
  • Jan 15, 2023 Peanuts, Cashews, Mono-Mercantilism, and Soil Erosion in Guinea Bissau: Amilcar Cabral and George Washington Carver Jan 15, 2023
• December 2022
  • Dec 26, 2022 UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Intervenes in Mumia Abu Jamal's Case Dec 26, 2022
  • Dec 20, 2022 Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update: Important Meeting With Conservador dos Registros Centrais (Keeper of Central Records) Dec 20, 2022
  • Dec 19, 2022 Strategic Reparations Litigation: Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects, Ethnocide and Prisoner of War Claims - A Look at Cases Against France and the United States Dec 19, 2022
  • Dec 14, 2022 Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemì Sàngódáre Nobles and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss Transgenerational Epigentic Effects (TGEE) of Slavery and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM) Dec 14, 2022
  • Dec 12, 2022 NCOBRA's Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 12, 2022
  • Dec 8, 2022 New! Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update Dec 8, 2022
  • Dec 6, 2022 Siphiwe Baleka Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 6, 2022
  • Dec 1, 2022 THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, THE DURBAN DECLARATION, REPATRIATION AND PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Dec 1, 2022
• November 2022
  • Nov 29, 2022 2022 Decade of Return Naming Ceremony in Guinea Bissau for Members of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Nov 29, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022 The Indignity of an African Traveling to Geneva, Switzerland for the Launch of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 17, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022 WILL CAMEROON SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO PEOPLE OF CAMEROONIAN ORIGIN IN THE DIASPORA UNDER A DECADE OF RETURN TO CAMEROON INITIATIVE Nov 13, 2022
  • Nov 6, 2022 Decade of Return to Cameroon: Report on the African Roots and Heritage Foundation and our Meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of External Affairs Nov 6, 2022
  • Nov 5, 2022 THE NEW AFRIKAN THOUGHT CONFERENCE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGES (CERDOTOLA) Nov 5, 2022
• October 2022
  • Oct 26, 2022 New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Oct 26, 2022
  • Oct 15, 2022 NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration Oct 15, 2022
• September 2022
  • Sep 24, 2022 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY J. BLINKEN ON THE 49TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2022
  • Sep 2, 2022 UN Committee Recommends Reparations - A Resource Guide for Understanding Our Struggle For Human Rights in International Forums Sep 2, 2022
• August 2022
  • Aug 27, 2022 MY CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X Aug 27, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka discusses neo-colonialism, organizing, global soil extinction and revolutionary Pan Africanism with Omowale Afrika on the "Going Off Topic" Podcast Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 What Direction Reparations? - Article from the NCOBRA 33rd Annual Convention Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 8, 2022 BBHAGSIA Celebrates Inaugural Dr. Mutulu Shakur Community Health Day With 4 Minute Fit Program Aug 8, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 29, 2022 #SAVESOIL GUINEA BISSAU: REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN (NAIP) AND THE IMPENDING FOOD SECURITY CRISIS Jul 29, 2022
• June 2022
  • Jun 24, 2022 TOWARDS A PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF THE AFRO DESCENDANT COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN IMARI OBADELE READER AND STRATEGIC PLAN Jun 24, 2022
  • Jun 15, 2022 UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS LANDSCAPE IN GUINEA BISSAU AND A PLAN TO FIX IT Jun 15, 2022
  • Jun 13, 2022 RUMO A UMA POLÍTICA DE DIREITO DE RETORNO E CIDADANIA PARA OS DESCENDENTES DE PESSOAS RETIRADAS DE TERRITÓRIOS DA ÁFRICA DURANTE O TRÁFICO TRANSATLÂNTICO E ESCRAVIDÃO DE POVOS AFRICANOS Jun 13, 2022
  • Jun 9, 2022 TOWARDS A RIGHT TO RETURN & CITIZENSHIP POLICY FOR DESCENDENTS OF PEOPLE TAKEN FROM TERRITORIES IN AFRICA DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE Jun 9, 2022
  • Jun 7, 2022 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GUINEA BISSAU’S SWIMMERS: 1ST "DASH FOR CASH" EVENT AND ELITE TEAM SELECTION Jun 7, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 NATAÇÃO, DINHEIRO E DESIGUALDADE GLOBAL: UMA COMPARAÇÃO DO APOIO DADO À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA GUINÉ BISSAU E À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA UCRÂNIA Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 SWIMMING, MONEY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY: A COMPARISON OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE GUINEA BISSAU SWIMMING FEDERATION AND THE UKRAINE SWIMMING FEDERATION Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 AT LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE TO BRING COMPETITIVE SWIMMING TO GUINEA BISSAU Jun 2, 2022
• May 2022
  • May 22, 2022 CURRENT STATUS OF GUINEA BISSAU: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT STATISTICS May 22, 2022
  • May 6, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka Promoting the Global #savesoil movement in Guinea Bissau May 6, 2022
• April 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Joins Launch of the Impact Hub Candidate Bissau Apr 20, 2022
  • Apr 2, 2022 Team SDGB Celebrates Birthday of Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Interim President Siphiwe Baleka Apr 2, 2022
• March 2022
  • Mar 25, 2022 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 22-29, 2022 Mar 25, 2022
  • Mar 8, 2022 Balanta History & Genealogy Society in America Launches T-Shirt Collection Featuring The Teachings of Amilcar Cabral Mar 8, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 RIGHT TO RETURN ALLIANCE SKILLS SURVEY Feb 6, 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 FIRST 50-METER OLYMPIC SWIM TRAINING FACILITY BUILT IN GUINEA BISSAU Feb 6, 2022
• January 2022
  • Jan 28, 2022 New Uniforms for Girls Team Provided by Interim President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Siphiwe Baleka Jan 28, 2022
• November 2021
  • Nov 18, 2021 BBHAGSIA President Discusses the COVID Agenda on Discussions of Truth Podcast Nov 18, 2021
  • Nov 8, 2021 Nbuntul a Kraase: Balanta Stories Now Available for First Time Translated into English Nov 8, 2021
  • Nov 2, 2021 BanFaaba and BBHAGSIA Presidents Attend African Union Workshop on Transformational Leadership Across Africa Nov 2, 2021
• October 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Federação de Natação da Guiné-Bissau e Ban-Faaba comemoram o Dia Mundial da Natação Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Swim Federation and Ban-Faaba Celebrate World Swim Day Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 20, 2021 Setting an Example for Afrodescendant Athletes From America: Siphiwe Baleka Represents Guinea Bissau at the 14th African Swimming Championships Oct 20, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 O presidente do BanFaaba, Mario Ceesay, e o coordenador da Década de Retorno, Siphiwe Baleka, se encontram com H.E. Dra. Erieka Bennett, Fundadora e Chefe da Missão, Diáspora Fórum Africano Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 BanFaaba President Mario Ceesay and Decade of Return Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka Meet with H.E. Dr. Erieka Bennett, Founder and Head of Mission, Diaspora African Forum Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 13, 2021 MOTION TO THE AFRICAN UNION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 39th EXTRAORDINARY SESSION DRAFTED BY BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT AND SUBMITTED TO THE AU ECOSOCC SECRETARIAT THROUGH THE ZAMBIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Oct 13, 2021
  • Oct 2, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts Playing Professional Basketball and Lighting It Up at the Armenia Cup. Oct 2, 2021
• September 2021
  • Sep 22, 2021 Consulting a B'sika and Discovering Unche, My Ancestral Village in Guinea Bissau Sep 22, 2021
  • Sep 15, 2021 BAN-FAABA USA Donates Medical Supplies to Village in Encheia, Guinea Bissau Sep 15, 2021
  • Sep 9, 2021 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #4 Sep 9, 2021
• July 2021
  • Jul 21, 2021 A Bumpy Road to the Olympics - Training in Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2021
  • Jul 18, 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 23-30, 2021 Jul 18, 2021
• June 2021
  • Jun 22, 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF GUINEA BISSAU TO AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE DECADE OF RETURN Jun 22, 2021
  • Jun 11, 2021 Guinea Bissau Begins Granting Citizenship to Afrodescendants from the United States Jun 11, 2021
  • Jun 2, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Questionnaire for Organizational Leaders Jun 2, 2021
• May 2021
  • May 27, 2021 Decade of Return To Guinea Bissau 2023 May 27, 2021
• April 2021
  • Apr 26, 2021 Learning from Neely Fuller Jr. About Your Status as A Prisoner of War Under the System of White Supremacy Apr 26, 2021
  • Apr 19, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Self Determination Survey Apr 19, 2021
  • Apr 17, 2021 UPDATED: Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 11-14, and June 8-11, 2021 Apr 17, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: NICOLE VADEN Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 Learning From The Leaders The Personal Cost of African Liberation: Responsibility, Racial Re-Education, Spiritual Re-Conversion, and Class Suicide for a Holy Order of Commitment Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 7, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: TRIMECHIAH LYNETTE ROGERS Apr 7, 2021
  • Apr 1, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Spectra Amanuri Apr 1, 2021
• March 2021
  • Mar 23, 2021 Balanta Kentohé Language Lessons Series 3 Now Available Mar 23, 2021
  • Mar 21, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Jazzy Ellis Mar 21, 2021
  • Mar 9, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Melanie "Duturna" Young Mar 9, 2021
  • Mar 3, 2021 Will Guinea Bissau's "Decade of Return Initiative" Be the Next Big Boon For This Small African Nation? Mar 3, 2021
• February 2021
  • Feb 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Officially Welcomes Descendants for Decade of Return Events in May and June Feb 23, 2021
  • Feb 17, 2021 Editorial: A Stolen Legacy? - A Critical examination of Barak Obama Post Presidency, and his enduring impact on the collective Black Consciousness Feb 17, 2021
  • Feb 12, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Kamm Howard to Give Testimony at Reparations Hearing Feb 12, 2021
• January 2021
  • Jan 30, 2021 Guinea Bissau: Mbontol Fnhénhe (A Love Poem) Jan 30, 2021
  • Jan 25, 2021 Afrodescendants' Response to President Biden's Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Jan 25, 2021
  • Jan 19, 2021 Siphiwe Baleka interviewd on NBC Access Daily, Friday January 15, 2021 Jan 19, 2021
  • Jan 16, 2021 BBHAGSIA to Renovate Headquarters and Provide Olympic Training Center for Guinea Bissau Olympic Swim Team Jan 16, 2021
  • Jan 15, 2021 Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 12-15, and June 7-10, 2021 Jan 15, 2021
  • Jan 14, 2021 Naming Ceremony for Nine Members of the Balanta B'urassa History and Genealogy Society in America Jan 14, 2021
  • Jan 12, 2021 Nqpadn kbonh (I have returned) Update for BBHAGSIA Members Sunday, January 17th at 5 pm CST Jan 12, 2021
• December 2020
  • Dec 10, 2020 STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE AFRODESCENDANT NATION WHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF AFRICANS ENSLAVED IN THE UNITED STATES (DAEUS) ON THE 72ND HUMAN RIGHTS DAY Dec 10, 2020
  • Dec 9, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Presentation to the 1st Africa Diaspora Summit, Nairobi Kenya Dec 9, 2020
  • Dec 7, 2020 BBHAGSIA Winter Celebration, Sunday, December 13 at 6:00 PM CST Dec 7, 2020
  • Dec 4, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka on the cover of Sports Illustrated Dec 4, 2020
• November 2020
  • Nov 23, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Addresses the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 23, 2020
  • Nov 22, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Conversation with the Pendo Center for Human Rights and Self-Determination Nov 22, 2020
  • Nov 18, 2020 BBHAGSIA President attends session: Anti-Black racism and police brutality: HRDs’ expectations from the UNHRC Nov 18, 2020
  • Nov 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT ATTENDS SESSION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) OF THE AFRICAN UNION Nov 14, 2020
• October 2020
  • Oct 15, 2020 Conversation Reparations With NCOBRA: Reparations thru Lineage Restoration Oct 15, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 FIHANKRA CONTROVERSY: A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT REPATRIATION TO AFRICA AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS BASED ON BLACK CAPITALISM Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA 1st Annual Meeting Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 12, 2020 Gold and Oil: Petrodollars and the United States Attacks in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Understanding Obama’s AFRICOM Betrayal of African People Oct 12, 2020
  • Oct 2, 2020 UNDERSTANDING THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY, ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES Oct 2, 2020
• September 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO ON THE 47TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA POET SIMONE ROBERTS: WHO AM I? Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 Gambia Balanta Student Association Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 9, 2020 The Success of Reverend Charles Colcock Jones' Plan to Prevent Negro Insurrection: Christian Mental Slavery & The Family of Jacob Blake Sep 9, 2020
• August 2020
  • Aug 24, 2020 STATEMENT ON THE SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE III, A BALANTA DESCENDANT, IN THE UNITED STATES Aug 24, 2020
  • Aug 17, 2020 REPARATIONS: A REMINDER FROM 18 YEARS AGO. . . . Aug 17, 2020
  • Aug 8, 2020 SPECIAL SCREENING OF FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER SUNDAY AT 6:00 PM CST Aug 8, 2020
  • Aug 7, 2020 AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative: History and Current Status with the AU 6th Region Education Campaign Director Aug 7, 2020
• July 2020
  • Jul 27, 2020 LINEAGE RESTORATION MOVEMENT Jul 27, 2020
  • Jul 22, 2020 CLASH OF CULTURES: EXPLAINING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP TO MY WIFE Jul 22, 2020
  • Jul 6, 2020 INTERPRETING THE 14TH AMENDMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH A VETERAN OF THE BLACK LIBERATION LEGAL STRUGGLE Jul 6, 2020
• June 2020
  • Jun 28, 2020 Balanta B'urassa Founders Day: Celebrating Those Who Resist, August 1, 2020 Chicago, IL Jun 28, 2020
  • Jun 27, 2020 Balanta Society in America Continues Food Distribution in Guinea Bissau Jun 27, 2020
  • Jun 11, 2020 INTEGRATION (ELECTORAL POLITICS) VS. NATIONALISM (SELF DEFENSE) VS. REVOLUTION (BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY): UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF COOPTING BLACK LIBERATION Jun 11, 2020
  • Jun 6, 2020 UNDERSTANDING MY BALANTA FATHER: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THOSE WHO RESIST IN AMERICA Jun 6, 2020
  • Jun 5, 2020 REPORT: BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA AND BAM'FABA DISTRIBUTE FOOD IN SINTCHAM, TANDE AND SAMODJE VILLAGES IN NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jun 5, 2020
  • Jun 1, 2020 EXPLAINING TO MY COLORLESS (WHITE) FRIENDS THE SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PROBLEM AND ENDING THE CIVIL WAR THAT WAS ESCALATED BY THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD Jun 1, 2020
• May 2020
  • May 30, 2020 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND PROTESTERS IN THE WAKE OF THE MURDER BY TORTURE OF GEORGE FLOYD. May 30, 2020
  • May 27, 2020 REVISITING THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY'S MESSAGE TO THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD May 27, 2020
  • May 25, 2020 VIEWPOINTS OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES (ADOS) May 25, 2020
  • May 24, 2020 THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF BALANTA EDUCATION: DEVELOPING CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE May 24, 2020
  • May 22, 2020 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #3 May 22, 2020
  • May 18, 2020 BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA SENDS EMERGENCY FOOD AID TO TCHOKMON VILLAGE May 18, 2020
  • May 2, 2020 WHERE ARE THE REVOLUTIONARIES?: MALCOLM X AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PLUTONOMY OF THE BEFERA OF WHITE SUPREMACY, CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM May 2, 2020
• April 2020
  • Apr 27, 2020 Black Nationalism in America - Cultural, Religious, Economic, Revolutionary: The Need for a Black United Front Apr 27, 2020
  • Apr 26, 2020 LEARNING THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: SLAVE SONGS, REPATRIATION, INSURRECTION, INTEGRATION, NATIONALISM & THE ORIGINAL #ADOS MOVEMENT FROM 1792 TO 1861 Apr 26, 2020
  • Apr 25, 2020 UNITED NATIONS SPONSORED PLEBISCITE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE CRIMINAL AND GENOCIDAL MIDDLE PASSAGE TO THE COLONIES THAT BECAME THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 25, 2020
  • Apr 18, 2020 Dr. Nana Kwame Leroy Frazier’s Visit to The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau Apr 18, 2020
  • Apr 12, 2020 DON'T LET THEM STARVE: AN APPEAL FOR EMERGENCY FOOD AID FOR THE PEOPLE OF GUINEA BISSAU Apr 12, 2020
  • Apr 8, 2020 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY DECISION TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSITY IN 1989 Apr 8, 2020
• March 2020
  • Mar 24, 2020 THE COVID 19 CHRONOLOGY THEY AREN'T SHOWING YOU: PROPAGANDA AND DENIAL ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE PANDEMIC Mar 24, 2020
• February 2020
  • Feb 29, 2020 Guinea Bissau Invites Olympic Legend Jackie Joyner Kersee to Her Ancestral Homeland for Launch of the Decade of Return Initiative Feb 29, 2020
  • Feb 27, 2020 Mental Slavery of Christianity: Its Origin, Development and The Challenge of Cognitive Dissonance to the African Ancestry Movement From the Point of View of Neuroscience and Behavior Change Feb 27, 2020
  • Feb 5, 2020 En Route To Balantaland Feb 5, 2020
  • Feb 2, 2020 Sunday Conference Call Feb 2, 2020
• January 2020
  • Jan 19, 2020 Guinea Bissau Prepares To Launch its "Decade of Return" Initiative: Report of the President of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Mission To Guinea Bissau Jan 19, 2020
• November 2019
  • Nov 11, 2019 THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE IS COMPELLING FORCE: REPARATIONS AND #ADOS Nov 11, 2019
  • Nov 2, 2019 CRITICAL AFRICAN ANCESTRY STUDIES & BALANTA LITERATURE: A REVIEW OF 13 BARS OF IRON BY MALIK K. YARBOROUGH Nov 2, 2019
• October 2019
  • Oct 31, 2019 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES AND CULTURAL HOLIDAYS: BALANTA MAN VS. HALLOWEEN Oct 31, 2019
  • Oct 16, 2019 Return to Khuti Part 2: The Mesintu and Anu Ancestors of the Balanta Oct 16, 2019
  • Oct 10, 2019 SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY VISIT TO EGYPT AND MY MARRIAGE: A CASE STUDY ON MY SECOND ANNIVERSARY Oct 10, 2019
  • Oct 3, 2019 Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates 1st International Masters Swimming Championships Oct 3, 2019
  • Oct 1, 2019 Return to Khuti: The Great Pyramid and Balanta Oct 1, 2019
• September 2019
  • Sep 23, 2019 ON QUESTIONS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY Sep 23, 2019
  • Sep 20, 2019 Reflection and citizenship (article reposted from Facebook by Nafanda Cidadão Camais) Sep 20, 2019
  • Sep 19, 2019 A Swimmer's Race: https://myswimpro.com/blog/2019/08/06/a-swimmers-race/ Sep 19, 2019

ON QUESTIONS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY

1.       Various peoples from the African continent were kidnapped, trafficked and enslaved in the territories that became the United States of America. Are the descendants of those people living in the United States today still African? To answer this question, it is important to clarify in what aspect is meant “still African”. Who or what is “African”?

a)       First of all, let’s consider who it was that is being referenced. Let’s think about the person that was put in chains, survived the middle passage and brought to the Americas. Was that person “African”? In what sense? Here, I can only speak on what I know. So, let me paint a picture. My great, great, great, great, great grandfather was captured and brought to the Carolinas in the late 1750’s. His father was a cattle herder and rice farmer living along what is today called the Cacheu River. If you were to ask him about his identity, he would tell you that he was a b’alante b’ndang of the B’urassa people. That was his identity. That was his concept of himself. That was his being. He did not know anything about this thing called “African”. So the very question of this debate, as posed, makes no sense to my 6th generation great grandfather. HE was not AFRICAN. He was a member of the B’Urassa people. Other people refer to the B’urassa as Balanta. In this sense then, I will reinterpret the question at hand to fit MY understanding and my circumstances. In short – am I still B’urassa?

b)      The answer to this question is very simple and my seven-year-old son can answer this. Let’s start from a basic, common sense understanding that anyone can understand.

c)       YOU ARE ALL YOUR ANCESTORS – You (every single person reading this) is the union of your mother and father. That’s how you got here. Your father planted his seed in your mother’s womb, she nurtured it for nine months, and then you were born. Every human being that has ever lived was born from the union of male and female. The very BLOOD that circulates in your body was given to you from your mother and father. The very LIFE FORCE energy, the BREATH OF LIFE, and the GENETIC INSTRUCTIONS that are responsible for the life that you have – you received all of it from your mother and father. Therefore, your mother and father live inside of you. Because this is also true of your mother and father – that their mother and father live inside of them – then it is also true that your grandparents – their blood, their life force energy, their breath of life, and their genetic instructions, also live inside of you. From this it follows, that ALL your ancestors live inside of you. Your blood, your life force energy, your breath and your genetic makeup are shared by all the ancestors living inside of you. Therefore, your life is not your own. ALL your ancestors depend on you for their existence.

d)      Genetic testing through African Ancestry shows that my paternal ancestry is a 100% match with Balanta. So here is definitive, scientific proof, the answer to the question. Yes, I am still B’urassa and all of my sons and male descendants after me will also be B’urassa.

e)      There are, however, other aspects to the question we are debating, since the spirit of the questions goes beyond just genetics and into other areas such as culture as well as such things as legal status. So let’s deal with the issue of legal status.

f)        My great, great, great, great, great grandfather, before he was captured, was a very young boy in the B’urassa age group of Nwatch. His father was a  b’alante b’ndang which is the head of the household and thus eligible to sit in the Council of Elders. And that’s where B’urassa state formation stops. B’urassa were a stateless society by intention because they understood state formations created inequality. So, at the time of capture, my great, great, great, great, great grandfather was the son of a sovereign head of household.

g)       Now the question is: what was his legal status upon arrival in the Carolinas? The answer is simple – he was a prisoner of war. The B’urassa were at war against the Mandingo of the Kaabu empire which were the biggest man-hunters in the area. The B’urassa were also at war with the Portuguese, English and Dutch slave traders. My great, great, great, great, great grandfather did not relinquish his “B’urassa” identity or status upon arrival in the Carolinas. He was, however, designated by the name “George”. I will use this name temporarily because I do not know his B’urassa name. Remember, George, like most B’urassa that were captured, was a young boy. He had not advanced through any of the age grade initiations that formally teach B’urassa culture.  George fathered a son who was called Jack around 1789. Was Jack still B’urrassa? Good question. Genetically speaking, the answer is yes. We already answered that. Legally, Jack’s status (under international law) was “a B’urassa prisoner of war”. Culturally is where we start to have questions, and then there is also spirituality, another aspect. George was brought to the Carolinas before there was a nation known as The United States of America. Jack was born after the formation of the United States of America, so legally, Jack was a B’urassa prisoner of war in the United States of America. In 1819, Jack had a son that was designated by the name Yancey Blake. Was Yancey still B’urassa? Genetically, yes. Legally, in 1819 he wasn’t a citizen of the United States, so he was still a B’urassa prisoner of war. Culturally, he was best described as a slave – he had a slave culture. He neither lived in the B’urassa culture of his grandfathers, nor did he live in the culture of his slave owner. In this sense, he was neither American, nor, as the question has been posed, African. More difficult to answer, however is the question of his spirituality. I can address this later.

This Dred Scott Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted. However, when the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, it ruled that Scott would remain a slave because as such he was not a citizen and could not legally sue in the federal courts. Moreover, in the words of Chief Justice Roger Taney, black people free or slave could never become U. S. citizens and they “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The dissenting justices pointed out that in some states people of color were already considered citizens when the Constitution was ratified. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting citizenship to all those born in the United States, regardless of color. But was the 14th Amendment a “grant” of citizenship?

h)      1865, the year of Emancipation, is the critical point of departure. No African who was taken captive and transported against his will to the Americas ever renounced their tribal identification and status vis-à-vis their original "citizenship". From 1444 up until Emancipation, all Africans held in slavery were not considered citizens of in the country of their captivity. The legal status of Africans in America after the Emancipation is undetermined. According to Imari Abubakari Obadele (founder of the Republic of New Africa):

"We are not American citizens... the Fourteenth Amendment, in an attempt to bestow citizenship upon the African newly freed from slavery, incorporated the rule of jus soli, 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States and of the state wherein they reside.' A sound principle of international law, the rule of jus soli was obviously intended to provide American citizenship for persons born in the United States through what might be termed 'acceptable accidents' of birth. Thus, a person born in the US as a result of his parents' having come to this country voluntarily -- through emigration and settlement or vacation travel or business -- could not be denied citizenship in the country of his birth. He might have dual citizenship, gaining also the citizenship of his parents, but he could not be left with no citizenship. His birth in the US under such conditions would meet the test of an "acceptable accident."

By contrast, however, the presence of the African in America could by no stretch of justice be deemed 'an acceptable accident' of birth. The African, whose freedom was now acknowledged by his former slavemasters through the Thirteenth Amendment, was not on this soil because he or his parents had come vacationing or seeking some business advantage. Rather the African -- standing forth now as a free man because the Thirteenth Amendment forbade whites (who had the power, not the right) to continue slavery -- was on American soil as a result of having been kidnapped and brought here AGAINST his will.

What the rule of jus soli demanded at this point -- at the point of the passage of the slavery-halting Thirteenth Amendment -- was that America not deny to this African, born on American soil, American citizenship -- IF THE AFRICAN WANTED IT. This last condition is crucial: the African, his freedom now acknowledged by persons who theretofore had wrongfully and illegally (under international law) held him in slavery by force, was entitled as a free man to decide for himself what he wanted to do -- whether he wished to be an American citizen or follow some other course.

The rule of jus soli, in protecting the kidnapped African from being left without any citizenship, could operate so far as to impose upon America the obligation to offer the African (born on American soil) American citizenship; it could not impose upon the African -- a victim of kidnapping and wrongful transportation -- an obligation to accept such citizenship. Such an imposition would affront justice, by conspiring with the kidnappers and illegal transporters, and wipe out the free man's newly acquired freedom.

Thus, the Fourteenth Amendment is incorrectly read when its Section One is deemed to be a grant of citizenship: it can only be an offer. The positive tone of the language can only emphasize the intention of the ratifiers to make a sincere offer. On the other hand, the United States government, under obligation to make the offer. also had the power to create the mechanism – a plebiscite-- whereby the African could make an informed decision, an informed acceptance or rejection of the offer of American citizenship. Indeed, Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment makes clear that Congress could pass whatever law was necessary to make real the offer of Section One. (Section Five says, 'The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.)

The first 'appropriate legislation' required at that moment -- and still required - was that which would make possible for the now free African an informed free choice, an informed acceptance or rejection of the citizenship offer.

Let us recall that, following the Thirteenth Amendment, four natural options were the basic right of the African. First, he did, of course, have a right, if he wished it, to be an American citizen. Second, he had a right to return to Africa or (third) go to another country -- if he could arrange his acceptance. Finally, he had a right (based on a claim to land superior to the European's, sub- ordinate to the Indian's) to set up an independent nation of his own.

Towering above all other juridical requirements that faced the African in America and the American following the Thirteenth Amendment was the requirement to make real the opportunity for choice, for self-determination. How was such an opportunity to evolve? Obviously, the African was entitled to full and accurate information as to his status and the principles of international law appropriate to his situation. This was all the more important because the African had been victim of a long-term intense slavery policy aimed at assuring his illiteracy, dehumanizing him as a group and depersonalizing him as an individual.

The education offered him after the Thirteenth Amendment confirmed the policy of dehumanization. It was continued in American institutions . . . for 100 years, through 1965. Now, again following the Thirteenth Amendment, the education of the African in America seeks to base African self-esteem on how well the African assimilates white American folk-ways and values Worse, the advice given the African concerning his rights under international law suggested that there was no option open to him other than American citizenship. For the most part, he was co-opted into spending his political energies in organizing and participating in constitutional conventions and then voting for legislatures which subsequently approved the Fourteenth Amendment. In such circumstances, the presentation of the Fourteenth Amendment to state legislatures for whose members the African had voted, and the Amendment's subsequent approval by these legislatures, could in no sense be considered a plebiscite.

The fundamental requirements were lacking: first, adequate and accurate information for the advice given the freedman was so bad it amounted to fraud, a second stealing of our birthright; second, a chance to choose among the four options: (1) US citizenship, (2) return to Africa, (3) emigration to another country and (4) the creation of a new African nation on American soil.

On the other hand, the United States government still has the obligation under Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment to ‘enforce' Section One (the offer of citizenship) in the only way it could be rightfully 'enforced' -- by authorizing US participation in a plebiscite. By, in other words, a reference to our own will, our self-determined acceptance or rejection of the offer of citizenship. There are further important ramifications. A genuine plebiscite implies that if people vote against US citizenship, the means must be provided to facilitate whatever decision they do make. Thus, persons who vote to return to Africa or to emigrate elsewhere must have the means to do so. . . .

Now then, we repeat: an obvious and important ramification of the plebiscite is that there must exist the capability of putting its decisions into effect. If the decision is for US citizenship, then that citizenship must be unconditional. If it is for emigration to a country outside Africa, those persons making this choice must have transportation resources and reparations in terms of other benefits, principally money, to make such emigration possible and give it a reasonable chance of success. If the decision is for a return to some country in Africa, the person must have those same reparations as persons emigrating to countries outside Africa PLUS those additional reparations necessary to restore enough of the African personality for the individual to have a reasonable chance of success in integrating into African society in the motherland. If, finally, the decision is for an independent new African nation on this soil, then the reparations must be those agreed upon between the United States government and the new African government. Reparations must be at least sufficient to assure the new nation a reasonable chance of solving the great problems imposed upon us by the Americans in our status as a colonized people."

i)        After 1865 and the 13th and 14th Amendments, our legal status in the United States of America became “colonized people through forced integration.” This is your/our current legal status until one makes an informed free choice, an informed acceptance or rejection of the citizenship offer.

IF YOU DID NOT KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF JUS SOLI AND THE LEGAL REQUIREMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO CONDUCT A PLEBISCITE FOR THE EXERCISE OF SELF DETERMINATION, THEN YOU DID NOT MAKE AN INFORMED FREE CHOICE, AN INFORMED ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION OF THE CITIZENSHIP OFFER. THUS, YOUR AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, IS NULL AND VOID UNLESS YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO MAKING A FREE AND INFORMED ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION OF THE OFFER.

j)        So at this point, we have systematically proven that genetically speaking I am still B’urassa. Legally speaking, I never renounced my B’urassa status (knowledge of which was taken from me through the process of terroristic brainwashing) and I never made a valid acceptance of American citizenship, so I am not American. Properly speaking, I am a B’urassa colonized through forced integration in the United States of America. Culturally, I am neither B’urassa (knowledge of which was taken from me through the process of terroristic brainwashing) nor American. By American, I mean, I don’t practice white supremacy. My culture is what is properly referred to as #ADOS – American Descendants of Slaves. Here, American refers to location, not ethnicity, consciousness, spirituality or nationality.

k)       Spiritually, I am neither Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist or any of the most well-known organized religions, nor have I ever been a member of any of their churches. The only organized religion or spirituality that I ever identified with and attended services for was Rastafari. However, I left the Rastafari movement and after discovering and studying my B’urassa ancestry, I have come to learn that spiritually, I am still B’urassa.

l)        So now I have answered the question(s) at hand. I am neither on paper nor in actual practice, American nor African. Genetically and spiritually, I am still B’urassa. Legally, I am a B’urassa colonized through forced integration in the United States of America, and culturally I am #ADOS (because of the process of terroristic brainwashing).

m)    CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF PAN AFRICANISM – In the past, because knowledge of our ancestral identities was erased through the process of terroristic brainwashing, many #ADOS have searched for an identity. Until the advent of genetic testing, for the vast majority of #ADOS, we could only learn that we came from “somewhere in Africa”. As a result, the entire continent of Africa became our identities, a place holder for our actual, SPECIFIC ancestral lineages. As a result, we built bonds with all the people of the African continent, and in particular, with those who shared the trans-Atlantic slavery experience. This bonding, based on this level of knowledge of self, formed the Pan African movement. However, I am a new kind of Pan Africanist. My Pan Africanism is not built on a sentimental feeling of a vague understanding of my relationship to the African continent. I know who I am and I know my history. I have written three volumes on my family history dating back to 42,000 BCE and am finishing the 4th and final volume entitled Balanta B’urassa My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain. My new Pan Africanism is based on the fact that I believe that knowing my history, our history, we can tell the truth, acknowledge our mistakes so that we don’t make them again. For example, my brother Foday is Temne and his ancestors were part of the Soninke or Mali Empires. When we discuss how his ancestors oppressed my ancestors, he apologized on behalf of his ancestor for what they did to my ancestors. We realize that BOTH of our ancestors ended up enslaved here in the United States because we did not have the advantage of understanding the threat against us. Now we do and now we see the pitfalls of not uniting against this threat. So we can be proud of our ancestral heritages and work together in better-informed Pan Africanism without falling into the pitfalls of tribalism. We can also empathize with each other about the experience of both losing and regaining our specific ancestral lineages. Once everyone knows WHO they are and WHOSE they are, then that truth can provide the answers to the questions we have today surrounding the who, what, where, when and how of REPARATIONS and how we will work with each other. There is no conflict between #ADOS and Pan Africanism once everyone knows their specific ancestral lineages.

n)      AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY I AM ISSUING THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE REPARATIONS MOVEMENT.

1.       Because the purpose of any reparations is to repair, then the first action requires answering, "Repair to what?" - What was the condition before the injustice that needs to be repaired?

THEREFORE, THE FIRST STEP IN REPARATIONS is to train and develop a professional class of African American genealogy researchers and deploy them as part of a modern day government Workers Project that will go throughout the United States and determine the genetic ancestry and family history of every black person claiming to be the descendants of slaves.

Because I have done this myself for my family, and reconstructed our family history for the last 18,000 years, including the first encounter with Europeans and their capture by Mandinka slave traders of the Kaabu empire who sold them to Luso Africans (mixed breed Portuguese and African) slave traders who then sold them to English rice planters in South Carolina (names are known), I know what it takes to do such a research project. The first step is removing the "negro problem" - getting rid of an identity that is not established in historical fact. Upon arrival in America, black victims of human trafficking were terrorized into forgetting their names, their language, their culture, and knowledge of where they come from. As the movie clip shows, not knowing yourself, only knowing yourself as "negro" or "black" or "from somewhere in Africa" is the continuing legacy of slavery. . . .

It is now the 21st century and the science, the tools, and the means for repairing this exist today. At this point, the government needs to provide, free of charge, maternal and paternal dna testing through the company African Ancestry as well as a professional genealogy case manager to work with each person to re-establish their historical ancestry. This is step #1

Every college and university should have a special program for training this class of genealogy researches and all African American students entering the program should be granted free tuition and a living stipend for four years of study. Within ten to fifteen years, every African American could then have their ancestral identity restored. This would then become the basis for further reparations. The process itself feeds several birds with one seed - a significant number of black students would be able to attend college free of charge with a useful vocation and guaranteed employment (through the government program) that is directly related to the "repairing" of the African American community.

THE SECOND STEP IS THEN USING THE SAME TECHNOLOGY AND WORKFORCE TO CALCULATE WHO OWNED WHO AND HOW MUCH WEALTH WAS CREATED AND STOLEN.

I suggest everyone start by reading Daina Ramey Berry's book, The Price For Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a NationTop of Form

A note to #ADOS– go back to “i)” and consider carefully. The way #ADOS is proceeding, they are waving their right to make a free and informed rejection of the citizenship offer. By waving this right, #ADOS is ceding valuable legal territory. In the same way that #ADOS founder Antonio Moore has done his homework when it comes to the economic and wealth aspects of Reparations, he must also do his legal homework lest he compromise other allies doing that aspect of REPARATIONS work. Essentially, #ADOS must make it clear – are they advocating integration into America or liberation from America? I am without question a liberationist and not an integrationist. I recommend that #ADOS add to its platform the demand for a US Sponsored Plebiscite while educating #ADOS that the movement is not divisive on this question – it is not an either/or choice. All 4 natural options are valid and must be provided for – 1) those who want to integrate into America; 2) those who want to return to their ancestral homelands; 3) those that want to form a new nation of their own on land that is currently within the United States of America; and 4) those that want to emigrate to some other country. We need not fight amongst ourselves on this question. We respect each person’s right of self-determination, but we struggle or the provisions for ALL FOUR OPTIONS EQUALLY.

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• August 2025
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  • Aug 27, 2025 WILL THE DECADE OF REPARATIONS RESULT IN THE FOLLY OF THE AU-LED REPARATIONS ELITE CAPTURE? WHY CITIZENSHIP IS THE HEART OF THE PROCESS & THE 1ST PRIORITY IS TO TAKE THE VATICAN TO THE ICJ AND ICC Aug 27, 2025
  • Aug 15, 2025 MESSAGE TO 250 MILLION AFRODESCENDANTS: OUR RIGHT TO RETURN TO AFRICA, REPARATIONS, THE UN, THE AU, THE AES, BURKINA FASO, PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE & THE STATUS OF PAN AFRICANISM Aug 15, 2025
  • Aug 3, 2025 RBG +126 DELEGATION STARTS VISIT IN BURKINA FASO, VISITS FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE IN THE WEST (FPITW) HEADQUARTERS Aug 3, 2025
• July 2025
  • Jul 26, 2025 Special Envoy to Burkina Faso Siphiwe Baleka Discusses The Global African Struggle Against US Imperialism, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism on Time for an Awakening with Brother Elliott Jul 26, 2025
  • Jul 15, 2025 NEW! CITIZENSHIP UPDATE FOR GUINEA BISSAU, BURKINA FASO AND BENIN Jul 15, 2025
  • Jul 10, 2025 Next Steps Following Historic Mission of the Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Jul 10, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 BLACK INDEPENDENCE DAY LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST JULY 4 Jul 2, 2025
  • Jul 2, 2025 Honoring the Father of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD): Silis Muhammad and His Interventions On Behalf of Afrodescendant Self Determination Jul 2, 2025
• June 2025
  • Jun 27, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Meets with the President of the Commission for the Alliance of Sahel States Jun 27, 2025
  • Jun 26, 2025 Friends of President Ibrahim Traoré in the West Delegation Begins Successful Mission in Burkina Faso Jun 26, 2025
  • Jun 16, 2025 BLACK SUMMER 2025: DECLARATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION FOR NEW AFRIKAN AND AFRODESCENDANT PEOPLES Jun 16, 2025
  • Jun 11, 2025 Another Member of the Balanta Society in America Returns to Guinea Bissau and Receives Passport Jun 11, 2025
  • Jun 10, 2025 NCOBRA International Affairs Commission Hosts Workshop on REPARATIONS, DECOLONIZATION AND SELF DETERMINATION: SPOTLIGHT ON THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, BONAIRE AND ST MAARTE Jun 10, 2025
  • Jun 6, 2025 What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika Jun 6, 2025
• May 2025
  • May 30, 2025 Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora: Burkina Faso Collective Note Naming Siphiwe Baleka Special Envoy May 30, 2025
  • May 29, 2025 AU ECOSOCC DIASPORA CONSULTATIONS CONTINUE TO DISAPPOINT AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE AU 6TH REGION May 29, 2025
  • May 18, 2025 Afro Descendants Receive Their Passports in Guinea Bissau; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Commends President of Guinea Bissau for Recognizing Afro Descendants' Right to Return May 18, 2025
  • May 10, 2025 Afrodescendents’ DNA Testing, Right of Return and Plebiscites Claims Presented at the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights May 10, 2025
• April 2025
  • Apr 30, 2025 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DELIVERS LETTER TO U.S. GENERAL MICHAEL LANGLEY AT THE UNITED STATES LIASON OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN GUINEA BISSAU. Apr 30, 2025
  • Apr 25, 2025 SEND THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND TO THE VATICAN TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS Apr 25, 2025
  • Apr 22, 2025 THE NEW NARRATIVE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION'S THEMED YEAR "REPARATIONS FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS" Apr 22, 2025
  • Apr 20, 2025 Rastafari, Repatriation and Citizenship Case Study in Tanzania: Mzee Saburi Omega, the Face of The Right To Return During the African Union's Themed Year "Reparations". Apr 20, 2025
  • Apr 19, 2025 Exciting News: Pan African Treaty of the Sixth Region African Diaspora is FINALISED! Apr 19, 2025
  • Apr 18, 2025 Discussing Decolonization and liberation with Russ Christopher, activist and freedom fighter in the U.S. Virgin Islands Apr 18, 2025
  • Apr 9, 2025 Making A Reparations Claim Under the Geneva Convention for the Crime of Ethnocide Resulting from Enslavement Apr 9, 2025
• March 2025
  • Mar 22, 2025 Siphiwe Baleka Recommends Groundbreaking DNA Testing, Lineage Restoration, Repatriation and Self Governing Territories to Illinois' African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Mar 22, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 EIN Presswire Refuses to Distribute Press Release about Plebiscite for Reparations for Afro Descendants Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 19, 2025 WHERE TO HOST A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS? THE WAY FORWARD Mar 19, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 REVISITING THE CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT IN AFRICA TODAY: SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSSES THE DIVISIONS IN THE MOVEMENT Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 17, 2025 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau May 10-19, 2025 Mar 17, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION SANKOFA UBUNTU: THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT Mar 12, 2025
  • Mar 12, 2025 AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025
  • Feb 28, 2025 A Response to Tadesse Simie Metekia's article, AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past Feb 28, 2025
  • Feb 20, 2025 AU ECOSOCC and the African Diaspora 6th Region: Reflections on My Crusade While Returning from the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union Feb 20, 2025
  • Feb 6, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO TEN MORE AFRO DESCENDANTS Feb 6, 2025
• January 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025 SIPHIWE BALEKA SPEAKS ABOUT THE ONGOING LEGACY OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE AT THE COOPERATIVE REPAIR EVENT Jan 20, 2025
  • Jan 16, 2025 GUINEA BISSAU GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO AFRICAN DIASPORA Jan 16, 2025
• December 2024
  • Dec 12, 2024 Bureaucrats, Gatekeepers and the Attempt to Sabotage the African Diaspora 6th Region Elections Dec 12, 2024
  • Dec 1, 2024 African Diaspora Town Hall Meeting With Former Special Advisor to AU-ECOSOCC Ms. Evelyn Joe - "Variance between AU Member States' and AU's Definition of the Diaspora" Dec 1, 2024
• November 2024
  • Nov 17, 2024 TOWN HALL MEETING SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ELECTIONS PROCESS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE AU-ECOSOCC 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov 17, 2024
  • Nov 12, 2024 ELECTING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/AU 6TH REGION REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTRAL COUNCIL (AU-ECOSOCC) Nov 12, 2024
  • Nov 8, 2024 PGRNA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nov 8, 2024
• October 2024
  • Oct 22, 2024 CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MINORITIES IN AFRICA Oct 22, 2024
  • Oct 21, 2024 BALANTA SOCIETY PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA RIGHT OF RETURN AT 81ST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Oct 21, 2024
  • Oct 6, 2024 Haitian Leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier speaks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Oct 6, 2024
• September 2024
  • Sep 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations Sep 29, 2024
  • Sep 20, 2024 Balanta Basketball Star From America Plays First Game in Guinea Bissau Sep 20, 2024
  • Sep 1, 2024 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts gets five year residency in Guinea Bissau Sep 1, 2024
• August 2024
  • Aug 13, 2024 FIDDLER AND CHICKEN GEORGE THEN AND NOW: CAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CELEBRITY CHANGE THE GAME? Aug 13, 2024
• July 2024
  • Jul 20, 2024 BALANTA LEADERS SPEAK ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF NEW AFRIKAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Jul 20, 2024
  • Jul 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day Jul 12, 2024
• June 2024
  • Jun 21, 2024 Balanta Leaders Present at Juneteenth Commemoration Highlighting the Need for Reparatory Justice Jun 21, 2024
  • Jun 14, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs on RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation, Black Power Media Network podcast Jun 14, 2024
  • Jun 9, 2024 The Correctness of Shifting from the European "Slave Trade" to the African "War Crimes" Narrative: Notes on José Lingna Nafafé's New Book on the 1684 Mendonça (Kongo) Reparations Case at the Vatican Jun 9, 2024
• May 2024
  • May 29, 2024 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA STILL PRISONERS OF WAR IF THEY HAVE VOTED? May 29, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 WORLD AQUATICS AND THE GUINEA BISSAU NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: FRAUD, THEFT, DISCRIMINATION & CORRUPTION - ILLEGAL PAYMENTS!!!! May 27, 2024
  • May 27, 2024 PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka discussed the UN Permanent Forum and the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 podcast May 27, 2024
  • May 19, 2024 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika addressed the Afrodescendant Nation National Reparations Convention in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2024
  • May 9, 2024 Republic of New Afrika Minister of Foreign Affairs Siphiwe Baleka Concludes Successful Diplomacy Tour in Ougadougu, Burkina Faso May 9, 2024
• April 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 IS THE UN PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THE LATEST REFINEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM? Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Republic of New Afrika: Overview of National Security Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 27, 2024 Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Apr 27, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Apr 26, 2024
  • Apr 14, 2024 EARTH DAY 53: WITCHCRAFT, THE NEW AFRIKAN THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MERCY OF DESTINY Apr 14, 2024
• March 2024
  • Mar 25, 2024 BBHAGSIA Dafana Institute Quebo Project Update Mar 25, 2024
  • Mar 16, 2024 DEFENDING THE INTERIM PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA DURING THE SPECIAL ELECTION Mar 16, 2024
  • Mar 11, 2024 The United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) 3rd Forum Denies Sponsorship for AfroDescendant Activist Requesting Advisory Opinion from the ICJ Mar 11, 2024
• February 2024
  • Feb 26, 2024 Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group Feb 26, 2024
  • Feb 9, 2024 A Balanta Homecoming: Abebenan Visits Tchokmon Village In Guinea Bissau Feb 9, 2024
  • Feb 3, 2024 The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union Feb 3, 2024
• January 2024
  • Jan 25, 2024 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM COMES TO BALANTA PEOPLE IN TINKA VILLAGE, BISSORA SECTOR, OIO REGION, NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jan 25, 2024
  • Jan 4, 2024 A Matter of War: Imari Obadele, Our Enslavement in the 13 Colonies and the United States, the Republic of New Afrika and Reparations Jan 4, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 Plebiscite Workshop at the New Afrikan People's Convention, December 30, 2023 Jan 1, 2024
  • Jan 1, 2024 WILL 2024 BE THE YEAR OF PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONAL UNITY?: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Jan 1, 2024
• December 2023
  • Dec 16, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka and Kamm Howard: Notes on Reparations & Plebiscite Strategy Dec 16, 2023
• November 2023
  • Nov 28, 2023 STOP CALLING IT A SLAVE TRADE: YOUR ANCESTORS WERE PRISONERS OF WAR! NKECHI TAIFA REFLECTS ON THE TEACHINGS OF IMARI OBADELE Nov 28, 2023
  • Nov 23, 2023 Balanta Society Report from the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023 Nov 23, 2023
  • Nov 22, 2023 Input on the Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Under the Geneva Convention Nov 22, 2023
  • Nov 15, 2023 WHO IS AN AFRICAN EXPERT ON REPARATIONS? Nov 15, 2023
  • Nov 4, 2023 What Real Reparations Looks Like: A Visit to the Balanta Village in Rucuto, Guinea Bissau Nov 4, 2023
• October 2023
  • Oct 17, 2023 United States Confronted About State-Sanctioned Ethnocide Against Balanta People at the United Nations Oct 17, 2023
  • Oct 10, 2023 A Letter Urging PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar to Immediately Fulfill the Mandate Given by Civil Society to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice Oct 10, 2023
• September 2023
  • Sep 26, 2023 ILLINOIS STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL AMMONS AND BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT SIPHIWE BALEKA DISCUSS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR STATUS, ETHNOCIDE AND THE PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Sep 26, 2023
  • Sep 25, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents at the Future Black America Conference, September 19 Sep 25, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Nkechi Taifa's Human Rights and Justice Podcast: Episode 52 Featuring Siphiwe Baleka Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 7, 2023 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka meets with the New Minister of Tourism, Faustino Mamadu Saliu Jaló Sep 7, 2023
  • Sep 2, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka, President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation meets with the new Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Albino Gomes Sep 2, 2023
• August 2023
  • Aug 10, 2023 AU-ADS Sixth Region High Council Africa Facilitator Calls for Country Facilitators to Assist with The Right To Return Repatriation Process Aug 10, 2023
• July 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Endorse the N’COBRA Health Commission Millions for Mutulu: The Dr. Mutulu Shakur Public Health Peoples Campaign Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 28, 2023 Tanya, Susana & the Djola (aka Felupe) Essangai: A Story for the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jul 28, 2023
  • Jul 25, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Barr’s Official Response to the Mandate Requesting an ICJ Advisory Opinion. Jul 25, 2023
  • Jul 21, 2023 UPDATE: Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2023
  • Jul 20, 2023 READ THE PETITION CHARGING THE UNITED STATES WITH ETHNOCIDE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Jul 20, 2023
  • Jul 16, 2023 “Petty Theft” or “Special Op”? Office of Reparations Activist Burglarised, Laptops Stolen Jul 16, 2023
• June 2023
  • Jun 28, 2023 PFPAD President Epsy Campbell Bar Agrees to sign a Request for an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the Status of Afro Descendants Enslaved in the Americas. Jun 28, 2023
  • Jun 26, 2023 ENDORSE THE 8TH PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS PART 1 TO BE HELD LATER THIS YEAR IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE Jun 26, 2023
  • Jun 22, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Address U.S. State Department on Balanta in America Self Determination and Right to Return to Guinea Bissau Jun 22, 2023
  • Jun 20, 2023 JUNETEENTH: THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION'S RECOGNITION OF NEW AFRIKAN RIGHTS UNDER NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE 14TH AMENDMENT FRAUD & THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF MALCOLM X AND IMARI OBADELE Jun 20, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Balanta Basketball Star from America Arrives in Guinea Bissau during the Decade of Return Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 15, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Reparations Reverend Kwame Kamau and Siphiwe Baleka discuss Pan Africanism, Lineage Restoration and PFPAD Jun 15, 2023
  • Jun 10, 2023 Direct and Certain Causal Nexus: Reparatory Justice for Quantifiable Harms and The Importance of the PFPAD Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jun 10, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 1st Meeting of the Lineage Restoration Council of Guinea Bissau Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 8, 2023 Will Siphiwe Baleka and the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation be Blocked from the Olympics Again? Jun 8, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 AN OPEN LETTER TO EPSY CAMPBELL BARR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Jun 2, 2023
  • Jun 2, 2023 Webinar: I made $100 in my first month posting on the Backroom social media platform - the "Black Facebook". Here's how I did it. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 pm CST Jun 2, 2023
• May 2023
  • May 31, 2023 Justin Hansford's Remarks at the Opening of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) May 31, 2023
  • May 30, 2023 Statement to the 2nd Session of PFPAD: Mandate to Request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ May 30, 2023
  • May 29, 2023 8PAC1 Conversations: Curtis Murphy on the Fihankra Repatriation and CIA Sabotage May 29, 2023
  • May 28, 2023 The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice May 28, 2023
  • May 25, 2023 ILLINOIS PASSES HR292 RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE DNA TESTING AND REPARATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION TO ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS IN AFRICA - HIGHLIGHTS BALANTAS FROM AMERICA May 25, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 MoAC Biss – Art and Culture Exhibition of Guinea-Bissau May 2023 May 1, 2023
  • May 1, 2023 Balanta Society Statement to the 32nd Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-5, 2023 May 1, 2023
• April 2023
  • Apr 27, 2023 Siphiwe Baleka to Present at International Congress entitled “OTHER READINGS ABOUT AMÍLCAR CABRAL” at the University of Lisbon, April 27 and 28th Apr 27, 2023
  • Apr 26, 2023 Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa: Episode 34 - "Reparations Utilizing International Instruments with Siphiwe Balenta" Apr 26, 2023
  • Apr 17, 2023 Global Afrikan Strategic Reparatory Justice Efforts at the PFPAD, ICJ, and AU - The Board As Seen By Siphiwe Baleka Apr 17, 2023
  • Apr 13, 2023 WEWO! Nqpadn Kbonh Issue #1 Apr 13, 2023
  • Apr 4, 2023 Prince Theophilus Tatsitsa Gha and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss the Decade of Return Initiative in Cameroon Apr 4, 2023
• March 2023
  • Mar 31, 2023 Don't Be Fooled! The Vatican's Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is Wordplay! Mar 31, 2023
  • Mar 26, 2023 Introducing Alante Daniel Nabicamba Mar 26, 2023
  • Mar 25, 2023 5th Preparatory Meeting for the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Definition of the Diaspora Mar 25, 2023
  • Mar 19, 2023 Supporting the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1: Letters to Africans at Home and Abroad from the Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders Mar 19, 2023
  • Mar 9, 2023 Council of Pan African Diaspora Elders forms to support the 8th Pan African Congress Part 1 to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe Mar 9, 2023
  • Mar 8, 2023 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Presents "Ethnocide: Genocide's Twin Sister" at the 9th Annual Genocide and Human Rights Research Conference Mar 8, 2023
  • Mar 5, 2023 Taking the Afro Descendants Case to the International Court of Justice: A Peoples' Mandate Issued to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Mar 5, 2023
• February 2023
  • Feb 14, 2023 Letter to Pan Africanists Concerning the Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Later This Year Feb 14, 2023
  • Feb 13, 2023 From the 8th Pan African Congress in 2014 to the 8th Pan African Congress in 2023 Feb 13, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 Will there be an African Diaspora regional headquarters for the African Union 6th Region? Upcoming Pan African Congress to make a proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 9, 2023 African Diaspora Ambassadors for the African Union 6th Region: Upcoming Pan African Congress to Make Proposal Feb 9, 2023
  • Feb 8, 2023 Upcoming Pan African Congress in Harare, Zimbabwe Will Propose a Comprehensive African Union Citizenship Policy for the African Diaspora Feb 8, 2023
• January 2023
  • Jan 22, 2023 Call for Inputs for United Nations Visit to the United States of America 24 April – 5 May 2023 Jan 22, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023 Balanta Society in America President Siphiwe Baleka Discusses the Durban Declaration at Forum on the 7th National Day of Racial Healing Jan 18, 2023
  • Jan 15, 2023 Peanuts, Cashews, Mono-Mercantilism, and Soil Erosion in Guinea Bissau: Amilcar Cabral and George Washington Carver Jan 15, 2023
• December 2022
  • Dec 26, 2022 UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent Intervenes in Mumia Abu Jamal's Case Dec 26, 2022
  • Dec 20, 2022 Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update: Important Meeting With Conservador dos Registros Centrais (Keeper of Central Records) Dec 20, 2022
  • Dec 19, 2022 Strategic Reparations Litigation: Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects, Ethnocide and Prisoner of War Claims - A Look at Cases Against France and the United States Dec 19, 2022
  • Dec 14, 2022 Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemì Sàngódáre Nobles and Siphiwe Baleka Discuss Transgenerational Epigentic Effects (TGEE) of Slavery and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM) Dec 14, 2022
  • Dec 12, 2022 NCOBRA's Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 12, 2022
  • Dec 8, 2022 New! Guinea Bissau Citizenship Update Dec 8, 2022
  • Dec 6, 2022 Siphiwe Baleka Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Dec 6, 2022
  • Dec 1, 2022 THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, THE DURBAN DECLARATION, REPATRIATION AND PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION Dec 1, 2022
• November 2022
  • Nov 29, 2022 2022 Decade of Return Naming Ceremony in Guinea Bissau for Members of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Nov 29, 2022
  • Nov 17, 2022 The Indignity of an African Traveling to Geneva, Switzerland for the Launch of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 17, 2022
  • Nov 13, 2022 WILL CAMEROON SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO PEOPLE OF CAMEROONIAN ORIGIN IN THE DIASPORA UNDER A DECADE OF RETURN TO CAMEROON INITIATIVE Nov 13, 2022
  • Nov 6, 2022 Decade of Return to Cameroon: Report on the African Roots and Heritage Foundation and our Meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of External Affairs Nov 6, 2022
  • Nov 5, 2022 THE NEW AFRIKAN THOUGHT CONFERENCE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGES (CERDOTOLA) Nov 5, 2022
• October 2022
  • Oct 26, 2022 New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Oct 26, 2022
  • Oct 15, 2022 NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration Oct 15, 2022
• September 2022
  • Sep 24, 2022 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY J. BLINKEN ON THE 49TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2022
  • Sep 2, 2022 UN Committee Recommends Reparations - A Resource Guide for Understanding Our Struggle For Human Rights in International Forums Sep 2, 2022
• August 2022
  • Aug 27, 2022 MY CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X Aug 27, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka discusses neo-colonialism, organizing, global soil extinction and revolutionary Pan Africanism with Omowale Afrika on the "Going Off Topic" Podcast Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 20, 2022 What Direction Reparations? - Article from the NCOBRA 33rd Annual Convention Aug 20, 2022
  • Aug 8, 2022 BBHAGSIA Celebrates Inaugural Dr. Mutulu Shakur Community Health Day With 4 Minute Fit Program Aug 8, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 29, 2022 #SAVESOIL GUINEA BISSAU: REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT PLAN (NAIP) AND THE IMPENDING FOOD SECURITY CRISIS Jul 29, 2022
• June 2022
  • Jun 24, 2022 TOWARDS A PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF THE AFRO DESCENDANT COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN IMARI OBADELE READER AND STRATEGIC PLAN Jun 24, 2022
  • Jun 15, 2022 UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS LANDSCAPE IN GUINEA BISSAU AND A PLAN TO FIX IT Jun 15, 2022
  • Jun 13, 2022 RUMO A UMA POLÍTICA DE DIREITO DE RETORNO E CIDADANIA PARA OS DESCENDENTES DE PESSOAS RETIRADAS DE TERRITÓRIOS DA ÁFRICA DURANTE O TRÁFICO TRANSATLÂNTICO E ESCRAVIDÃO DE POVOS AFRICANOS Jun 13, 2022
  • Jun 9, 2022 TOWARDS A RIGHT TO RETURN & CITIZENSHIP POLICY FOR DESCENDENTS OF PEOPLE TAKEN FROM TERRITORIES IN AFRICA DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE Jun 9, 2022
  • Jun 7, 2022 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GUINEA BISSAU’S SWIMMERS: 1ST "DASH FOR CASH" EVENT AND ELITE TEAM SELECTION Jun 7, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 NATAÇÃO, DINHEIRO E DESIGUALDADE GLOBAL: UMA COMPARAÇÃO DO APOIO DADO À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA GUINÉ BISSAU E À FEDERAÇÃO DE NATAÇÃO DA UCRÂNIA Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 SWIMMING, MONEY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY: A COMPARISON OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE GUINEA BISSAU SWIMMING FEDERATION AND THE UKRAINE SWIMMING FEDERATION Jun 2, 2022
  • Jun 2, 2022 AT LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE TO BRING COMPETITIVE SWIMMING TO GUINEA BISSAU Jun 2, 2022
• May 2022
  • May 22, 2022 CURRENT STATUS OF GUINEA BISSAU: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT STATISTICS May 22, 2022
  • May 6, 2022 BBHAGSIA Founder Siphiwe Baleka Promoting the Global #savesoil movement in Guinea Bissau May 6, 2022
• April 2022
  • Apr 20, 2022 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka Joins Launch of the Impact Hub Candidate Bissau Apr 20, 2022
  • Apr 2, 2022 Team SDGB Celebrates Birthday of Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Interim President Siphiwe Baleka Apr 2, 2022
• March 2022
  • Mar 25, 2022 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 22-29, 2022 Mar 25, 2022
  • Mar 8, 2022 Balanta History & Genealogy Society in America Launches T-Shirt Collection Featuring The Teachings of Amilcar Cabral Mar 8, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 RIGHT TO RETURN ALLIANCE SKILLS SURVEY Feb 6, 2022
  • Feb 6, 2022 FIRST 50-METER OLYMPIC SWIM TRAINING FACILITY BUILT IN GUINEA BISSAU Feb 6, 2022
• January 2022
  • Jan 28, 2022 New Uniforms for Girls Team Provided by Interim President of the Guinea Bissau Swimming Federation Siphiwe Baleka Jan 28, 2022
• November 2021
  • Nov 18, 2021 BBHAGSIA President Discusses the COVID Agenda on Discussions of Truth Podcast Nov 18, 2021
  • Nov 8, 2021 Nbuntul a Kraase: Balanta Stories Now Available for First Time Translated into English Nov 8, 2021
  • Nov 2, 2021 BanFaaba and BBHAGSIA Presidents Attend African Union Workshop on Transformational Leadership Across Africa Nov 2, 2021
• October 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Federação de Natação da Guiné-Bissau e Ban-Faaba comemoram o Dia Mundial da Natação Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Swim Federation and Ban-Faaba Celebrate World Swim Day Oct 23, 2021
  • Oct 20, 2021 Setting an Example for Afrodescendant Athletes From America: Siphiwe Baleka Represents Guinea Bissau at the 14th African Swimming Championships Oct 20, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 O presidente do BanFaaba, Mario Ceesay, e o coordenador da Década de Retorno, Siphiwe Baleka, se encontram com H.E. Dra. Erieka Bennett, Fundadora e Chefe da Missão, Diáspora Fórum Africano Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 14, 2021 BanFaaba President Mario Ceesay and Decade of Return Coordinator Siphiwe Baleka Meet with H.E. Dr. Erieka Bennett, Founder and Head of Mission, Diaspora African Forum Oct 14, 2021
  • Oct 13, 2021 MOTION TO THE AFRICAN UNION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 39th EXTRAORDINARY SESSION DRAFTED BY BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT AND SUBMITTED TO THE AU ECOSOCC SECRETARIAT THROUGH THE ZAMBIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Oct 13, 2021
  • Oct 2, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Joshua Roberts Playing Professional Basketball and Lighting It Up at the Armenia Cup. Oct 2, 2021
• September 2021
  • Sep 22, 2021 Consulting a B'sika and Discovering Unche, My Ancestral Village in Guinea Bissau Sep 22, 2021
  • Sep 15, 2021 BAN-FAABA USA Donates Medical Supplies to Village in Encheia, Guinea Bissau Sep 15, 2021
  • Sep 9, 2021 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #4 Sep 9, 2021
• July 2021
  • Jul 21, 2021 A Bumpy Road to the Olympics - Training in Guinea Bissau Jul 21, 2021
  • Jul 18, 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau November 23-30, 2021 Jul 18, 2021
• June 2021
  • Jun 22, 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF GUINEA BISSAU TO AFRODESCENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE DECADE OF RETURN Jun 22, 2021
  • Jun 11, 2021 Guinea Bissau Begins Granting Citizenship to Afrodescendants from the United States Jun 11, 2021
  • Jun 2, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Questionnaire for Organizational Leaders Jun 2, 2021
• May 2021
  • May 27, 2021 Decade of Return To Guinea Bissau 2023 May 27, 2021
• April 2021
  • Apr 26, 2021 Learning from Neely Fuller Jr. About Your Status as A Prisoner of War Under the System of White Supremacy Apr 26, 2021
  • Apr 19, 2021 Afrodescendant Steering Committee Self Determination Survey Apr 19, 2021
  • Apr 17, 2021 UPDATED: Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 11-14, and June 8-11, 2021 Apr 17, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: NICOLE VADEN Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 14, 2021 Learning From The Leaders The Personal Cost of African Liberation: Responsibility, Racial Re-Education, Spiritual Re-Conversion, and Class Suicide for a Holy Order of Commitment Apr 14, 2021
  • Apr 7, 2021 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FEATURING BALANTA WOMEN: TRIMECHIAH LYNETTE ROGERS Apr 7, 2021
  • Apr 1, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Spectra Amanuri Apr 1, 2021
• March 2021
  • Mar 23, 2021 Balanta Kentohé Language Lessons Series 3 Now Available Mar 23, 2021
  • Mar 21, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Jazzy Ellis Mar 21, 2021
  • Mar 9, 2021 Women's History Month Featuring Balanta Women: Melanie "Duturna" Young Mar 9, 2021
  • Mar 3, 2021 Will Guinea Bissau's "Decade of Return Initiative" Be the Next Big Boon For This Small African Nation? Mar 3, 2021
• February 2021
  • Feb 23, 2021 Guinea Bissau Officially Welcomes Descendants for Decade of Return Events in May and June Feb 23, 2021
  • Feb 17, 2021 Editorial: A Stolen Legacy? - A Critical examination of Barak Obama Post Presidency, and his enduring impact on the collective Black Consciousness Feb 17, 2021
  • Feb 12, 2021 BBHAGSIA Member Kamm Howard to Give Testimony at Reparations Hearing Feb 12, 2021
• January 2021
  • Jan 30, 2021 Guinea Bissau: Mbontol Fnhénhe (A Love Poem) Jan 30, 2021
  • Jan 25, 2021 Afrodescendants' Response to President Biden's Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Jan 25, 2021
  • Jan 19, 2021 Siphiwe Baleka interviewd on NBC Access Daily, Friday January 15, 2021 Jan 19, 2021
  • Jan 16, 2021 BBHAGSIA to Renovate Headquarters and Provide Olympic Training Center for Guinea Bissau Olympic Swim Team Jan 16, 2021
  • Jan 15, 2021 Africa Day 2021 Decade of Return to Guinea Bissau, May 12-15, and June 7-10, 2021 Jan 15, 2021
  • Jan 14, 2021 Naming Ceremony for Nine Members of the Balanta B'urassa History and Genealogy Society in America Jan 14, 2021
  • Jan 12, 2021 Nqpadn kbonh (I have returned) Update for BBHAGSIA Members Sunday, January 17th at 5 pm CST Jan 12, 2021
• December 2020
  • Dec 10, 2020 STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE AFRODESCENDANT NATION WHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF AFRICANS ENSLAVED IN THE UNITED STATES (DAEUS) ON THE 72ND HUMAN RIGHTS DAY Dec 10, 2020
  • Dec 9, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Presentation to the 1st Africa Diaspora Summit, Nairobi Kenya Dec 9, 2020
  • Dec 7, 2020 BBHAGSIA Winter Celebration, Sunday, December 13 at 6:00 PM CST Dec 7, 2020
  • Dec 4, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka on the cover of Sports Illustrated Dec 4, 2020
• November 2020
  • Nov 23, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Addresses the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent at the United Nations Nov 23, 2020
  • Nov 22, 2020 BBHAGSIA President Conversation with the Pendo Center for Human Rights and Self-Determination Nov 22, 2020
  • Nov 18, 2020 BBHAGSIA President attends session: Anti-Black racism and police brutality: HRDs’ expectations from the UNHRC Nov 18, 2020
  • Nov 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA PRESIDENT ATTENDS SESSION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) OF THE AFRICAN UNION Nov 14, 2020
• October 2020
  • Oct 15, 2020 Conversation Reparations With NCOBRA: Reparations thru Lineage Restoration Oct 15, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 FIHANKRA CONTROVERSY: A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT REPATRIATION TO AFRICA AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS BASED ON BLACK CAPITALISM Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 14, 2020 BBHAGSIA 1st Annual Meeting Oct 14, 2020
  • Oct 12, 2020 Gold and Oil: Petrodollars and the United States Attacks in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Understanding Obama’s AFRICOM Betrayal of African People Oct 12, 2020
  • Oct 2, 2020 UNDERSTANDING THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY, ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES Oct 2, 2020
• September 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO ON THE 47TH GUINEA BISSAU INDEPENDENCE DAY Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 BALANTA POET SIMONE ROBERTS: WHO AM I? Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 24, 2020 Gambia Balanta Student Association Sep 24, 2020
  • Sep 9, 2020 The Success of Reverend Charles Colcock Jones' Plan to Prevent Negro Insurrection: Christian Mental Slavery & The Family of Jacob Blake Sep 9, 2020
• August 2020
  • Aug 24, 2020 STATEMENT ON THE SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE III, A BALANTA DESCENDANT, IN THE UNITED STATES Aug 24, 2020
  • Aug 17, 2020 REPARATIONS: A REMINDER FROM 18 YEARS AGO. . . . Aug 17, 2020
  • Aug 8, 2020 SPECIAL SCREENING OF FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER SUNDAY AT 6:00 PM CST Aug 8, 2020
  • Aug 7, 2020 AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative: History and Current Status with the AU 6th Region Education Campaign Director Aug 7, 2020
• July 2020
  • Jul 27, 2020 LINEAGE RESTORATION MOVEMENT Jul 27, 2020
  • Jul 22, 2020 CLASH OF CULTURES: EXPLAINING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP TO MY WIFE Jul 22, 2020
  • Jul 6, 2020 INTERPRETING THE 14TH AMENDMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH A VETERAN OF THE BLACK LIBERATION LEGAL STRUGGLE Jul 6, 2020
• June 2020
  • Jun 28, 2020 Balanta B'urassa Founders Day: Celebrating Those Who Resist, August 1, 2020 Chicago, IL Jun 28, 2020
  • Jun 27, 2020 Balanta Society in America Continues Food Distribution in Guinea Bissau Jun 27, 2020
  • Jun 11, 2020 INTEGRATION (ELECTORAL POLITICS) VS. NATIONALISM (SELF DEFENSE) VS. REVOLUTION (BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY): UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF COOPTING BLACK LIBERATION Jun 11, 2020
  • Jun 6, 2020 UNDERSTANDING MY BALANTA FATHER: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THOSE WHO RESIST IN AMERICA Jun 6, 2020
  • Jun 5, 2020 REPORT: BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA AND BAM'FABA DISTRIBUTE FOOD IN SINTCHAM, TANDE AND SAMODJE VILLAGES IN NORTHERN GUINEA BISSAU Jun 5, 2020
  • Jun 1, 2020 EXPLAINING TO MY COLORLESS (WHITE) FRIENDS THE SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN PROBLEM AND ENDING THE CIVIL WAR THAT WAS ESCALATED BY THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD Jun 1, 2020
• May 2020
  • May 30, 2020 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND PROTESTERS IN THE WAKE OF THE MURDER BY TORTURE OF GEORGE FLOYD. May 30, 2020
  • May 27, 2020 REVISITING THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY'S MESSAGE TO THE BLACK MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD May 27, 2020
  • May 25, 2020 VIEWPOINTS OF THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES (ADOS) May 25, 2020
  • May 24, 2020 THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF BALANTA EDUCATION: DEVELOPING CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE May 24, 2020
  • May 22, 2020 THE CALL TO ORGANIZE BALANTA PEOPLE WORLDWIDE: BRASSA MADA N’SAN KEHENLLI BAM’FABA – MESSAGE #3 May 22, 2020
  • May 18, 2020 BALANTA SOCIETY IN AMERICA SENDS EMERGENCY FOOD AID TO TCHOKMON VILLAGE May 18, 2020
  • May 2, 2020 WHERE ARE THE REVOLUTIONARIES?: MALCOLM X AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PLUTONOMY OF THE BEFERA OF WHITE SUPREMACY, CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM May 2, 2020
• April 2020
  • Apr 27, 2020 Black Nationalism in America - Cultural, Religious, Economic, Revolutionary: The Need for a Black United Front Apr 27, 2020
  • Apr 26, 2020 LEARNING THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: SLAVE SONGS, REPATRIATION, INSURRECTION, INTEGRATION, NATIONALISM & THE ORIGINAL #ADOS MOVEMENT FROM 1792 TO 1861 Apr 26, 2020
  • Apr 25, 2020 UNITED NATIONS SPONSORED PLEBISCITE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE CRIMINAL AND GENOCIDAL MIDDLE PASSAGE TO THE COLONIES THAT BECAME THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Apr 25, 2020
  • Apr 18, 2020 Dr. Nana Kwame Leroy Frazier’s Visit to The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau Apr 18, 2020
  • Apr 12, 2020 DON'T LET THEM STARVE: AN APPEAL FOR EMERGENCY FOOD AID FOR THE PEOPLE OF GUINEA BISSAU Apr 12, 2020
  • Apr 8, 2020 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY DECISION TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSITY IN 1989 Apr 8, 2020
• March 2020
  • Mar 24, 2020 THE COVID 19 CHRONOLOGY THEY AREN'T SHOWING YOU: PROPAGANDA AND DENIAL ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE PANDEMIC Mar 24, 2020
• February 2020
  • Feb 29, 2020 Guinea Bissau Invites Olympic Legend Jackie Joyner Kersee to Her Ancestral Homeland for Launch of the Decade of Return Initiative Feb 29, 2020
  • Feb 27, 2020 Mental Slavery of Christianity: Its Origin, Development and The Challenge of Cognitive Dissonance to the African Ancestry Movement From the Point of View of Neuroscience and Behavior Change Feb 27, 2020
  • Feb 5, 2020 En Route To Balantaland Feb 5, 2020
  • Feb 2, 2020 Sunday Conference Call Feb 2, 2020
• January 2020
  • Jan 19, 2020 Guinea Bissau Prepares To Launch its "Decade of Return" Initiative: Report of the President of the Balanta B'urassa History & Genealogy Society in America Mission To Guinea Bissau Jan 19, 2020
• November 2019
  • Nov 11, 2019 THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE IS COMPELLING FORCE: REPARATIONS AND #ADOS Nov 11, 2019
  • Nov 2, 2019 CRITICAL AFRICAN ANCESTRY STUDIES & BALANTA LITERATURE: A REVIEW OF 13 BARS OF IRON BY MALIK K. YARBOROUGH Nov 2, 2019
• October 2019
  • Oct 31, 2019 THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVES AND CULTURAL HOLIDAYS: BALANTA MAN VS. HALLOWEEN Oct 31, 2019
  • Oct 16, 2019 Return to Khuti Part 2: The Mesintu and Anu Ancestors of the Balanta Oct 16, 2019
  • Oct 10, 2019 SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANTA ANCESTORS' ANCIENT SPIRITUALITY APPLIED TO MY VISIT TO EGYPT AND MY MARRIAGE: A CASE STUDY ON MY SECOND ANNIVERSARY Oct 10, 2019
  • Oct 3, 2019 Siphiwe Baleka’s Sorcery Dominates 1st International Masters Swimming Championships Oct 3, 2019
  • Oct 1, 2019 Return to Khuti: The Great Pyramid and Balanta Oct 1, 2019
• September 2019
  • Sep 23, 2019 ON QUESTIONS OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY Sep 23, 2019
  • Sep 20, 2019 Reflection and citizenship (article reposted from Facebook by Nafanda Cidadão Camais) Sep 20, 2019
  • Sep 19, 2019 A Swimmer's Race: https://myswimpro.com/blog/2019/08/06/a-swimmers-race/ Sep 19, 2019

Reflection and citizenship (article reposted from Facebook by Nafanda Cidadão Camais)

In my opinion achieving a political system that can suit our socio-political realities, could be a valid alternative to this vicious cycle of chronic instability that parents have been immersed for more than two decades and without end the view.

Socially Guinea-Bissau is a mosaic of different sensitivity, although "Virtual" in my opinion.
With more than 20 ethnic groups each with its own identity (language, uses and customs, etc) the democratic fragility known until today, suffers from a logical evidence of what the system or semi-Presidential plagiarism that copy from Portugal, perhaps Do not be suitable at this time for Guinea-Bissau due to the very structure of guinean society itself

So making a deep reflection on how to act to turn this jinx would be a serious challenge for each of us..

That said and by the structural similarity of the two societies, I usually define guinea-Bissau from the point of view of social composition as a "Miniature" of United States of America, and consequently i also believe that a similar political system but not equal to Of them, it could help break this vicious cycle of our instability

Now the understood of political and social sciences, here are matters to discuss.

Chances:

1. Assumption Number 1 would be that political parties would have to be groups on the basis of the social or ideology policies that they defend, which are

Right, center, left.

2. All parties would be required to sign a certificate of their ideology in the supreme court before the general elections.

3. of the parties that defend
The same policies should be a consensual leader through internal interim elections without state costs.

4 In the end we would have only two groups of parties fighting for the general elections, expense by

5. Whoever won, elect a president of the republic and this in turn forms his own government.
So in one election we would have the president of the republic and Prime Minister of the same

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