Susan Matthews

The more I study and the more I meet myself that all the kind of African studies: African ethnology, Noirism, indigenism, negritude, Africanism in the Caribbean have never been able to achieve their ultimate goal of emancipation, freedom and education for the Afro-descendant peoples of the Caribbean; because they never could achieve sovereignty. These currents were infiltrated and parasitized by the imperialist/ colonial nations and their local allies (elites and oligarchies), for the control of knowledge and all that this implies. The black owned is really the solution for all afro initiatives, whether in the academic, social, cultural, economic, political, educational, health… one must self-finance, one cannot depend or remain vassals of foreign funds, of foreign interests, foreign ideology. In the future we can only be united among ourselves if we really want to be free.

Arme d'apparat. Elle a été réalisée à La Rochelle pour Andris Poucouta, macaye (premier ministre) et mafouque (ministre des relations commerciales) à Cabinda.

I was so happy when I found this review at an antique store in Batlimore. It was like the connection has to be made.

Objets blessés - La réparation en Afrique, Gaetano Speranza, 2007

Working on The Sacradness of the Mother and her Child give me joy !

Figure animalière sur une production culturelle du groupe Aluku, en Guyane. Le serpent est animal privilégié dans la cosmogonie des peuples Marons et Amérindiens de Guyane. Le serpent se retrouve régulièrement dans les productions artisanales et artistiques. Chez les Aluku, il est à la fois le symbole du féminin et du masculin. Plus largement dans les traditions afro-diasporique, comme dans le sèvi Ginen (vodoun ayitien), il peut être associé a des esprits ou des divinités. On retrouve aussi le symbole du serpent sur des productions matérielles du peuple Akan (Ghana).

Tomorrow I'm going to become a teacher, I'm going to do my first class. I can't wait! I have prepared everything. 

It's a big step for me. Once my thesis is finished, I want to become an anthropologist and historian of Caribbean societies. My dream is to do research, write on many subjects, transmit knowledge, make cultural films and many other projects!! 

I have so much gratitude to all those who have accompanied me and who are still with me.  Future.

Material and visual heritage of Manman dlo, Lasiren, Yemọja and Ọṣun.

REX NETTLEFORD I love him so much, he is a Caribbean thinker who inspires me enormously.