May 29, 2021
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Perspectives artistiques...
La seconde partie arrivera bientôt
Un évènement bruxellois à ne pas manquer...On vous y attend nombreux et nombreuses
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Grand-Mère
Née un 25 décembre 193..., Tu T'appelais Marie-Louise Noëlle. Mère de ma Maman, Tes funérailles se sont achevées le weekend dernier. Tu étais ma dernière Grand-Mère en vie. Mariée à 18 ans, Maman à 19, veuve à 44 ans et toujours matriarche...
Les vérandas où tu passais beaucoup de temps, n'auront plus la même signification pour moi désormais...
Dans nos traditions, parce que Tu a eu:
- 9 enfants,
-44 petit-enfants et
-une douzaine d'arrière-petits-enfants,
le "tambour" a resonné pour Toi 24/24, 7/7 de l'annonce de Ton départ à Ton enterrement...des nuits et jours durant. Ceci afin que Ta nombreuse descendance entende le tambour de n'importe quelle contrée et vienne Te saluer... Ceci afin de montrer Ton exemple, celui du choix de la postérité nombreuse...
De Toi, j'ai la taille, la silhouette, la pointure, la coquetterie, la discipline, le franc-parler, la faiblesse pour les fruits que Tu nous as appris à choisir, manger, faire pousser: corossolle, fruit de la passion, goyave, papaye, mangue, noix de coco, ananas...
De Toi, j'ai bien d'autres choses aussi...
Grand-Mère, parler de Toi au passé m'est déjà pénible!
Je suis apaisée de T'avoir eu à mes côtés jusqu'à mon âge actuel, de T'avoir vu à un stade avancé de Ta vie.
Bon voyage!
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Mon prochain rendez-vous "bien-être africain" aura lieu autour d'un brunch dominical organisé par Kemet Market.
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Brunch Conférence
Booking is compulsory...
Did Ancient Africans practice physical activity?
Africans are either Sport Champions or sick bodies lacking exercice...
Did Ancient Africans practice physical activity?
Yes, they did to the point of having rare health related issues Africans do experience in 2023.
Can you name (in your African language) a physical activity from your culture?
In South Cameroon, we have "Bikutsi" (hitting your foot against the soil) which used to be a set of movements mostly performed by females when going to harvest their fields. They used to sing during the commute and hit the soil with their feet while sharing personal stories to other women. The type of stories appropriate ladies would not talk about in public.
Nowadays, Bikutsi has become a musical genre celebrated by many female Cameroonian music icons. The essence of it can still be perceived in the way they openly speak about sexuality and female behaviour however, the physical movements have evolved into a dancing practice.
If Africa in 2023 is the subject of poor ageism and extensive health issues linked to metabolic diseases (illnesses born out of inadapted lifestyle choices); it has become a continental problem. Why are still celebrating those who keep promoting these catastrophic lifestyle options?
People who think it is better to congratulate an African rice producer instead of a fonio one tend to forget that statistics do not lie. We are meant to be eating cereals naturally grown into our lands! Similarly to wheat, rice has been culturally imported as an eating practice. Before the independences, Did Africans eat rice or wheat? No, since they were eating what they would produce themselves. Also, the majority was living in countrysides. Independences brought the urge to move into cities to "leave indigenuous habits and lives behind".
Did Africans have a high rate in diabetes and strokes? We did not. Did we have elders unable to grow older than 60? No we did not. Why? We had different lifestyles much more in tune with our environment and cultures. Having been colonised does not mean becoming a pale copy of the past oppressors. If we do then indeed we also have to cope with the misery attached to those external lifetsyle choices.
Can we afford Western hospitals to be built in Africa? No, we cannot.
The healthiest and safest alternative is to eat and live according to our original needs/ways to prevent health challenges.
To switch from the actual way of thinking Africa according to foreign views is a common effort which has to be sustained and monitored. I can help with my methods here www.femmenoiresensuelle.com
The choice is always ours!