I REMEMBER

I REMEMBER

By Thobekile Mbanda

I remember a time when Africa was Eden, where Gods walked the earth

I remember the sun burnt people establishing Khemit now known as Egypt

I remember the holy place Ethiopia the father and mother of all dynasties were Gods ruled  as kings. Ababonaabakulu basekhemu, lord khemu teaching our ancestors ‘you are the light let it shine’.

I remember a time in our black story when we knew that God is in everything and everything is in God and every day was a holy day for one could not separate themselves from the light of God which shone every day

I remember how later  greed, anger, jealousy, and bloodshed turned our world upside down, honor was lost respect, truth  and love became a myth, when Eden was ripped, robbed  and rapped and her people  and their story were  destroyed, distorted and disfigured.

I remember you Yaa Asantewaa mother of the queens protector of the throne, I remember you queen Nzinga princess of worioresses,I remember you Nanny and Queen Nayavingi  mothers of the mountains defenders of the faith, I remember you Sojourner Truth  mother of Godly wisdom, I remember you Harriet Tubman  angel of courage  the Black Mosses and I remember you   Lillian Ngoyi  and Dora Taman sisters of justice.

Yes Willy lynch, J Edgar Hoover and all you oppressors, the slave has remembered your words saying “for orderly  future special attention must be paid to the black female slave  and the youngest off spring, keep the body but take  the mind, concentrate on the future generation therefore if you break the female mother  she  will break  the off spring in its early years of development and when the off spring is ready to work she will deliver  it up to you, for her normal and natural female protective tendencies  will have been lost in the original breaking and making  of  a female slave”

You beast I remember  for the mind of the female slave now moves on its own axis, I take back my mind  and my body healing my womb from all kinds of sickening rapes, restoring life back to my off springs I refuse to deliver  any more of springs  to your altars of death, like a lioness, Im ready to kill for my off spring for I remember and know that from my destiny I will run no more for the blood of Priestess Nehanda, Qelhata and Geraheni flows through my veins empress Mennen Empress Taytu Betul royal mothers of the throne and Worrioress Amina runs through my veins, like Nomkubulwane this river must run its course and beware  if your house is built on sandy land by the shore.

I remember I am the Wombniverse.

Where I come from cannot determine where I am going Mother Ruth

                    Mother Ruth Ruth 1-4/proverbs 31

                    This is a story about mother Ruth a woman who inspires me.

The picture that I am used is an image that I found on line and I think its beautiful

                Where I come from cannot determine where I am going

                                              

              

  Born in the land where they worship Chemosh and killed babies as sacrifice, a place where children are sacrificed shows little value for family life yet alone life in itself, Mother Ruth was exposed to highly perverse culture and worst form of human behavior, in this day and age some of us are like her born in highly disturbing culture of sheebeens, molested at young ages and sold for prostitution etc

Moab was considered a cursed place because of what Lots daughters had done after they managed to escape with their father away from Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 19;30-38

Mother Ruth decided to live her past and move beyond her upbringing, most people don’t move beyond their upbringing they don’t move beyond what they have been exposed to in their past. Living the past is not about living the negative aspect only behind for others, it is leaving behind the past they perceive to be better than their present and for others it’s about letting go of past successes.

Mother Ruth decided to leave the past behind and cleave to what Jah has for her, so it is for us as well leave your yesterday cleave to today ,leave your failures and hold on to Jah’s promises leave your old sin and cleave to the forgiveness Jah gives you. To be fit means to be appropriate or qualified.

Leaving yesterday is a continual process, you leave yesterday behind the moment you begin today, and with every step forward there must be a leaving of what is past. Jah does not consult your past to determine your future. Jah does not bind us to our past. Yesterday is a tomb, tomorrow is in the womb. what we are intimate with right now is what we will birth in our future.

Let go of the past embrace your future..forgetting means you choose not to dwell in the memories of days gone by,as a man thinketh so shall it be.our thoughts become our words. Reaching forward means new thoughts.Pressing towards the goal means to resist that which would hinder your moving into your destiny, meditate on things that are praise worthy.

Thoughts do come about the brokenness of our past or thoughts of lose in our past but the vision of your destiny will give you strength to press on forward, to move forward one has to resist fear, including the fear of the unknown and there is a spirit fighting those who choose to move forward keeping their souls in fear not to reach their ultimate freedom of the soul as Jah want us to be.

Traveling for me has and is helping me to let go of the fear of the unknown.

Like Mother Ruth do not look behind.

Do not long for the things that have past.

Don’t linger emotionally, mentally and spiritually on things that are over.

Don’t stay on the same level.

Like Mother Ruth there is a future for you1

Love and light

Beacons of Liberation 1 Yaa Asantewa

                                            YAA  ASANTEWA 1863-1923

Her fight against British colonialists is a story woven throughout the history of Ghana. A History for a black people, one evening the chiefs held a secret meeting at Kumasi. Yaa Asantewaa the Queen Mother of Ejisu, was at the meeting. The chiefs were discussing how they should make war on the white men and force them to bring back the Asantehene. Yaa Asantewa saw that some of the chiefs were afraid. Some said that there should be no war. They should rather go to beg the Governor to bring back the Asantehene King(Nana) Prempeh.

Then suddenly Yaa Asantewaa stood up and spoke. This was what she said: "Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward to fight for our king. If it were in the brave days of, the days of Osei Tutu, Okomfo Anokye, and Opoku Ware, chiefs would not sit down to see their king taken away without firing a shot. No white man could have dared to speak to chief of the Ashanti in the way the Governor spoke to you chiefs this morning. Is it true that the bravery of the Ashanti is no more? I cannot believe it. It cannot be! I must say this: if you the men of Ashanti will not go forward, then we will. We the women will. I shall call upon my fellow women.

“We will fight the white men. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields."

This speech stirred up the men who took another to fight the white men until they released the Asantehene. For months the Ashanti’s led by Yaa Asantewaa fought very bravely and kept the white men in the fort. Yet British reinforcements totaling 1,400 soldiers arrived at Kumasi. Yaa Asantewaa and other leaders were captured and sent into exile. Yaa Asantewa's war was the last of the major war in Africa led by a woman.

Dawtas of the sun..the begining

"... I was born of a lioness, child of Soasoane/It is fitting that I should emulate her. She is my mother, she strapped me on her back / I was nursed by lions that wore skirts."

The state of your womb reflects the state of your life. For decades we have been made to feel as though we are inferior to the plan of Jah/God/Universe/Ancestors so much that some of us women have come to except that which kills the spirit of the wombniverse for there are no easy accessible information of our great woman herstory .

We need to rise we need to remember that the womb is the gateway of all human life. When the womb is honored and respected she becomes a channel of power, creativity and beauty –and joy reigns on earth. When her voice goes unheard, unanswered and denied the womb becomes the  a vessel of disease.

The collective state of women’s wombs reflects the condition of the world, when so many women’s wombs suffer from tumors, and cysts rigidity heavy menstrual bleeding, when so many women experience sexually aggressive acts and unnecessary hysterectomies, then disharmony covers the earth.

Dawtas of the Sun says rise remember thyself woman and take your place in the throne of life remember  the sacred mothers  that have walked and lived before us and left us a powerful legacy spiritually physically and mentally, let us not disregard our herstory let us not neglect our heritage.

I am greatly inspired by the book: Sacred woman by QueenAfua.

I am inspired by powerful women in expressing and speak from the womb the living warrioresses.I am inspired by D’bi.young Anitafrika.

I am inspired by the women I meet and continue meeting those that showed love and those that took love.

Know thyself remember that which Jah whispered into your ear, for you are a sacred woman filled with the spirit of the Most High Supreme, you are empowered with freedom and harmony.

“I’s gonna leave you with one last thought. Cause the preacher-he says Eve was the mother of all temptation and she done caused the all men to fall. Aint that somethin’?if the first woman God created was strong enough to turn the world upside down-all alone-these here together ought to be able to turn it back and git it right side up again. Now ole Sojourner ain’t got nothin’ more to say. God bless you all.(Sojourner truth)”

We are of a very powerful linage may we never get weary in seeking the truth.

Women know thyself.

Blessed love

THE ZULU QUEEN

Thobekile Thobs Thoby the Zulu Queen
I rise in the morning
To take a leap of faith
To let love shine through
To embrace the unknown
To believe in self cos out here self is all I have
With well wishes from friends family and foes
I rise
To lend a helping hand
To discover and rediscover my passions
To celebrate today to develop my skills to ensure survival
To dream the impossible in the world of possibilities
To expand myself
And experience other cultures
For a better tomorrow
I rise.
As Thobekile Thobs Thoby the Zulu Queen
How can I help you?

DAWTA'S OF THE SUN

This blogg page is for words that inspire.

It's about my poetry/songs,opinions and women who inspire me over the decades of time.
stories that need to be preserved.Its about my work as a creative.

                              Who am I ?

I am the mother of mothers

dawta of all dawtas

Sister of all sisters

To have plenty I know

To have nothing I know

                                                 I have been inflicted with

Lust, anger, contempt, jealousy, lack

Of creativity, loneliness, confusion and sadness

Yet through faith I have been

Elevated, rejuvenated, once again

My soul knows happiness, joy, peace, love and

Being content

My fist will remain clenched till the

Children stop crying, my fist will remain clenched

Till the hungry are fed, the naked are clothed and the ignorant are taught

I am the spirit of every woman

I know what it is to have and I know

What it is to have nothing

I am the mother of all mothers

I call upon all the righteous spirits of ancient mothers that have lived

Touched and felt

My fist will remain clenched till righteousness covers the earth

Like water cover the see

I doubt not who I am

I cease not to fight evil principalities who are drowning the

Souls of my people

I will love for I am loved

I will liberate for I am being liberated

To run no more

For the river must and will run its cause

I am the dawta of all dawtas sister of all sisters

And mother of all mothers.