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Musings on Ancestral Spirituality

In Ifa, ancestors are an essential part of the spiritual realm and serve as guides and protectors. Every individual has a lineage and within the Ifa practice there is an ‘obligation to communicate with the ancestors on a daily basis’ (Fatunmbi).

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26 February 2024

A Call to all Guardians of the Black [British] Village

Displacement has disrupted our rich traditions – our literal modes of survival – leaving us without actualising rites for our current state. A lack of collective intention bodes ill for the future. How then can we unpack our past and engage with our present to disrupt these futures?

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Essays

02 January 2024

Death, grief and rebirth - the evolution of an artist by Stephanie Abadom Stevens

I can’t speak for other Black artists, I can only discuss my own experience as a Black woman in the arts. It is something that requires skin like iron and a gentle beating heart, it is something that, I believe, has not quite fulfilled its great potential due to historical oppression, exclusion and misuse.

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Musings on Ancestral Spirituality

A Call to all Guardians of the Black [British] Village

Death, grief and rebirth - the evolution of an artist by Stephanie Abadom Stevens