Naima Atti

www.naimaatti.com Here you will find my thoughts. favorite images. random musings. the things i love + daily inspiration. Follow me on twitter --> @Naimaatti AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A TRUE QUEEN!!! LOVER EVEN IF WE'VE HAD THE WORST OF TIMES, I LEAVE YOU WITH THE BEST OF MEMORIES...

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REBLOG IF YOU'RE BLACK TUMBLR👊🏿🙌🏿

where ya’ll at??🔥🔥

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This is so beautiful

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This is just disgusting I actually used to like them too. These are only some of the racist ass tweets they are self hating as FUCK bashing black people like it’s cute or something!

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this is so wild to me. i’m honestly. for once i’m actually like speechless???? these two girls like have built a following and have become successful from young black girls watching and supporting them and i’m just. well.

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1925 Benin Dahomey » King of Alda

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The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet David Okuefuna, Princeton University press. 

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1906 King Behanzin of Dahomey (shortly before his death)

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Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh of Abomey (Benin)

Leader of the Dahomey Amazons, she led an army of 6.000 women against the Egba fortress of Abeokuta. Because the Amazons were armed with spears, bows and swords while the Egba had European cannons only about 1,200 survived the extended battle. In 1892 King Behanzin of Dahomey (now Benin) was at war with the French colonists over trading rights. He led his army of 12,000 troops, including 2.000 Amazons into battle. Despite the fact that the Dahomey army was armed only with rifles while the French had machine guns and cannons, the Amazons attacked when the French troops attempted a river crossing, inflicting heavy casualties. They engaged in hand to hand combat with the survivors eventually forcing the French army to retreat, but was later defeated, and the Amazons burned fields, villages and cities rather than let them fall to the French. 

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We gain an Ancestor. Rest in power Dr. Frances Cress Welsing!

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From the “NEGRO IN THE NEW WORLD” Collection

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Ach-raf and Hermann pose on the beach in Cotonou. They’re wearing the ‘Boba,’ a matching chemise and pant outfit many of the men in Benin were sporting. They said they like it because it’s ‘relaxed and comfortable.’ They were on the beach celebrating a friend’s birthday. Photo by Ricci Shryock @ricci_s #everydayafrica #everydayeverywhere #africanfashion #fashion #mensfashion #beautifulboubou #beaches #benin #ricci_s

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‪#‎MuslimArt‬ | ‪#‎Ramadan2015‬: In questi ultimi giorni di Ramadan, vogliamo rendere omaggio all'arte africana (del Continente e della Diaspora) che trae ispirazione della fede islamica e/o ne riflette la dimensione spirituale.

Fotografie dalla serie ‘Giants’ di PATRIZIA MAÏMOUNA GUERRESI

Dopo numerosi viaggi nell'Africa islamica e la conversione all'Islam nel '91, le creazioni di Maïmouna Guerresi hanno abbracciato una nuova dimensione. Fotografa, scultrice, autrice di video e di installazioni, Maïmouna rappresenta la voce artistica del sufismo.

Nelle sue opere, permeate di simbolismo e misticismo, ricorrenti sono i temi del velo, della luce, del latte e degli alberi; metafore che simboleggiano — in funzione dell'etica islamica — la bellezza formale e la spiritualità femminile.

Attraverso la sua arte, Maïmouna Guerresi rappresenta figure di donne africane musulmane; donne tenaci che, al contrario della percezione occidentale, non sono relegate ad una condizione di sottomissione («strong and powerful woman and not the submissive, dispirited woman that is represented in Western media.»)

Nell'opera “Genitilla al Wilada” (2007), la figura spirituale femminile indossa un 'indumento-scultura’ bianco (garment-sculpture) dal quale emerge una vacuità in cui sono sospese delle bolle, dei nuovi mondi. Il vuoto — concepito come etere, universo — rappresenta il grembo in cui è sospesa la vita.

In “Adji Baifall Minaret” (2004), il manto (che ricorda i tessuti patchwork dei Baye Fall) è stato creato con 99 tessuti diversi, ognuno dei quali rappresenta i 99 nomi di Allah. «Concettualmente, quello che mi interessa, è poter rappresentare la bellezza formale con l'etica della religione islamica, cercando di esaltare le similitudini tra le culture, piuttosto che le differenze».

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‪#‎danonperdere‬: Karima 2G — nota anche come Miss Annie — è una rapper, cantante, beatmaker e ballerina di origini liberiane. Assieme a Dj Cukiman è cofondatrice del duo PepeSoup e dell'etichetta discografica Soupu Music.  Il suo ultimo disco “Bantu Juke Fever” — fusione di Chicago Juke, Techno e Hip-Hop — segue il grintoso mixtape “Revolution In Progress” e l'album di debutto “2G” (seconde generazioni), in cui affronta vicende che hanno segnato lo scenario politico italiano. Il 5 agosto Karima si esibirà al ‪#‎Gardenbeat‬ Festival organizzato dalla cooperativa Kilowatt di Bologna. 

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A glimpse of Venice Biennale | Belgian Pavillion “It aims to challenge the Euro-centric idea of modernity by examining a shared avant-garde heritage and artistic/intellectual cross-pollination between Europe and Africa, looking into the hybrid forms that were produced as a result of colonial encounters. At the same time it examines the impact of colonial modernity on our contemporary subjectivities. Personne et les autres also revisits and pays tribute to the legacy of Internationalism, and the global emancipatory movements during the time of independence in respective African countries, whilst at the same time interrogating the notion of artistic radicalism and its meaning today.”

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Ashanti funeral in Kumasi, Ghana.

I attended the Ashanti funeral in kumasi, is been a unique opportunity to understand the culture traditional Akan people.

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Looking Up / Nicholas Raimondo