A Rare Piece

I’ll advice you be calm gentle and jovial with your approachs ✌️

[angelicphenomenon]

weekends feel louder when it’s just me and my thoughts”

“learning how to sit with the quiet 🤫

Not sad …. Just aware of the silence 🤲🙏

[thatguyfromtx]

Happy Hump Day my friends.

[angelicphenomenon]

HHD INDEED 👀☝️

[einsliga]

[angelicphenomenon]

I agree ☝️

[angelicphenomenon]

HBD to me ❤️🕺🩵

[angelicphenomenon]

Thank you @futuristicpostkryptonite and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

[angelicphenomenon]

HBD to me ❤️🕺🩵

[angelicphenomenon]

Thank you @futuristicpostkryptonite and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

[ancestralia]

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior.  There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time.  Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP's link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

[oldshrewsburyian]

Because the original link was broken, I tracked down a news story about how the song is continuing to help Mary Moran's relatives find their African communities:

Also, there's an apparently sanctioned link to the full documentary about tracing the song.

I was really fascinated to learn that the song was originally recorded by none other than Lorenzo Dow Turner, the founder of Gullah studies. Gullah was dismissed (by white people) as a nonsense language until a Black linguist trained on Old and Middle English came along in the early 20th century, and I love him.

[angelicphenomenon]

Yes because we are real not what the whites tags us with 💯💯💯

[angelicphenomenon]

Hey, where are you from ?

I am from a small country called Aruba 🇦🇼 it is located in the southern Caribbean Sea, north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná. But I am currently living and working in Tucson Arizona USA

[danaming]

[fever4theflavor69]

Love it

[scovington]

Always😈👅

[angelicphenomenon]

I love being ate out to pieces 😋💛

[angelicphenomenon]

HBD to me ❤️🕺🩵

[brownbunniesblog2]

[angelicphenomenon]

Lavibe 🖤💋❤️

[angelicphenomenon]

I am a proof that today happened 🔥🕺🕺🔥

[samanthasawyer1]

[angelicphenomenon]

I love you damsel ❤️

[angelicphenomenon]

I’m not for everyone—and that’s my power 🕺🌤️

[angelicphenomenon]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!

[nousernameuser]

No Crack Tribe | florence_baitio | Future Wife

[mr-bernard]

Our Culture is Truly Amazing & Rich Beyond Our Wildest Dreams & As Seen in This Beautiful Queens Eyes 👀 as Well as Her Face & Smile 😃. But Not Everyone ~ Other people of lesser Melon Treat Our Culture Like We Are Not Worthy To Be Around ~ But only to take advantage of us bye any means..... This Has To Stop At All Costs ~ On All Levels ~ We Are One of God's Greatest Creations ~ Please Treat Us So 🙏 ❤️ 💙

[angelicphenomenon]

Wasn’t planning on stealing attention today… but here we are so Careful… you might get addicted 🔥

[gjiuyee]

[angelicphenomenon]

So breathtaking 👅😋