HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!

[Bantu_Kelani]

Thanks to all who spend time on these boards, even those whose viewpoints differs from my own.

To all my Africa/Rasta/Rastafari Speaks family, I wish you all a happy Kwanzaa !! and happy New Year !! [/b]



Bantu Kelani.

[Tyehimba]

K'a má fi wàrà-wàrà n'okùn orò.
Ohun à bâ if s'àgbà,
K'a má if se'binu.
Bi a bá de'bi t'o tútù,
K'a simi-simi,
K'a wò'wajú ojo lo titi;
K'a tun bò wá r'èhìn oràn wo;
Nitori àti sùn ara eni ni.

Let us not engage the world hurriedly.
Let us not grasp at the rope of wealth impatiently.
That which should be treated with mature judgment,
Let us not deal with in a state of anger.
When we arrive at a cool place,
Let us rest fully;
Let us give continuius attention to the future;
and let us give deep consideration to the consequences of things.
And this because of our (eventual) passing.


                              Eji Ogbe
                          The Odu Ifa

http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/odu-ifa.html

[Tyehimba]

May the start of the new year provide the opportunity   for reflection and introspection needed to fuel flighted dreams.

May the birth and promise of the new year  provide the impetus to achieve what needs to be achieved in order to fulfill your destiny.

May the swirling winds of time deliver exactly what you deserve. No more....no less.

[Bantu_Kelani]

My Love, Light and Serenity may the KWANZAA PRINCIPLES all year long surround you and yours infinitely!! and Thanks for posting your enlightened writings again!!  

UMOJA: UNITY: To strive for and maintain unity
in family, community, nation and race.

KUJICHAGULIA: SELF DETERMINATION:
To define and name ourselves. To create and speak for ourselves, instead of having others defining, or determining our paths or SELVES.

UJIMA: COLLECTIVE WORK & RESPONSBILITY:
To come together to build and maintain our communities. To carry our brothers' & sisters' problems and together solve them.

UJAMAA: CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMICS:
To come together to build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

NIA: PURPOSE:
To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our communities in in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness

KUUMA: CREATIVITY:
To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our communities more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.

IMANI: FAITH:
To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.


Peace.

Bantu Kelani.

[Kingston]

Give thanks to you B.K.

It is when ones differ that true learning takes place.  It is pointless to talk with ones who feel the same as you and there is no chance for progression.

I am simply happy to have found this home as it is a place of knowledge and wisdom.

Love life all...

..Kingston..

[Poetic_Princess]

Happy Kwanzaa and Happy New year to all those blessed sistrens and brethrens who post here.

Thank you all for commenting on my work and give me more knowledge and wisdom on things going on around me.

Bless

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

[Bantu_Kelani]

Happy 2004!!! May you both follow the highest wisdom of our ancestors to fly high above the pit of darkness and mental ignorance. Be blessed each day!

B.K