Milcandcookies

Student by day healer by night. 21. Toronto. Eritrean.

Co-founder of 'the Africana'. A project dedicated and built around empowering and healing black female youth.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

—

Audre Lorde (via notime4yourshit)

For BW, putting self-care first is revolutionary act.

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—OneDaySoon(Sampler)

A sampler of the album One Day Soon available Oct 7, 2011 from http://www.iankamau.com

One of my fav Toronto artists. Listen, and thank me later.

I want to shoot a video like this when I travel back home, stunning..

coldbloodwarmheart: fyeahblackhistory: The Kandakes of Kush. Kentake, also known as Candace or kendake was the title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, also known as Nubia and Ethiopia. They were known as Nubian warrior queens, queen regents, and Ruling queen mothers. They controlled what is now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt.Reliefs dated to about 170 B.C. reveal kendake Shanakdakheto, dressed in armor and wielding a spear in battle. She did not rule as queen regent or queen mother but as a fully independent ruler. Her husband was her consort. Reliefs found in the ruins of building projects she commissioned, Shanakdakheto is portrayed both alone as well as with her husband and son, who would inherit the throne by her passing. One of the most well known Kandakes was Amanishakheto known for defeating the Roman invasion of Nubia by Augustus and subsequently brokering a favorable peace treaty. Conclusion The “Kandakes/Candaces” serve as examples of women as powerful figures or clever strategists in their roles as queens, as warrior queens, or as romantic figures, They have had great appeal in times past, and will continue to do so in this present era of feminist or humanist interest in the subject. Click here for more References: Nubian Queens in the Nile Valley and Afro-Asiatic Cultural History - Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor of Anthropology, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston U.S.A, August 20-26, 1998 shout out to all my Nubian Egyptian and Sudanese friends :)  das righhh

coldbloodwarmheart:

fyeahblackhistory:

The Kandakes of Kush.

Kentake, also known as Candace or kendake was the title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, also known as Nubia and Ethiopia.

They were known as Nubian warrior queens, queen regents, and Ruling queen mothers. They controlled what is now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt.
Reliefs dated to about 170 B.C. reveal kendake Shanakdakheto, dressed in armor and wielding a spear in battle. She did not rule as queen regent or queen mother but as a fully independent ruler. Her husband was her consort. Reliefs found in the ruins of building projects she commissioned, Shanakdakheto is portrayed both alone as well as with her husband and son, who would inherit the throne by her passing.

One of the most well known Kandakes was Amanishakheto known for defeating the Roman invasion of Nubia by Augustus and subsequently brokering a favorable peace treaty.

Conclusion

The “Kandakes/Candaces” serve as examples of women as powerful figures or clever strategists in their roles as queens, as warrior queens, or as romantic figures, They have had great appeal in times past, and will continue to do so in this present era of feminist or humanist interest in the subject.

Click here for more

References: Nubian Queens in the Nile Valley and Afro-Asiatic Cultural History - Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor of Anthropology, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston U.S.A, August 20-26, 1998

shout out to all my Nubian Egyptian and Sudanese friends :) 

das righhh

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wordspeaktruth: i got a question? could it be love. could it be true. whatever it was i seen last time i dreamed i knew what i would do. could it be that L, O i got caught up in the cigarello smoke I love this and them….. :-)

wordspeaktruth:

i got a question?

could it be love. could it be true. whatever it was i seen last time i dreamed i knew what i would do.

could it be that L, O i got caught up in the cigarello smoke

I love this and them….. :-)