2024年6月17日 · Maafa (mah-AH-fah) is a Swahili word meaning “great disaster” or “great tragedy.” Since the late 1980s it has been used to refer to the transatlantic slave trade of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, during which an estimated 12.5 million African men, women, and children were kidnapped from their homes and forcibly brought to ...

MAAFA is a racial healing commemoration of the ancestors, known and unknown, from the Transatlantic & Domestic Slave Trades. MAAFA is a Kiswahili word that means “great tragedy” or “horrific tragedy”, referring to the period called the Middle Passage or TransAtlantic Slave Trade.

2020年7月22日 · In the movement of Pan-Africanism, “The Maafa” is a term often used to describe the many historical atrocities committed against people of African Descent. It is evoked, most commonly, in reference to the Transatlantic slave trade and its resounding ripple effects.

2015年6月28日 · These beautiful illustrations by Haitian artist, Joseph Kendy, tell the story of a heroic ancestor during the Maafa (Atlantic slavery). It is a pictorial love story, painted with the themes of trauma, sacrifice, and courage.

The Maafa (Swahili for "Great disaster"), the African Holocaust, the Holocaust of Enslavement, or the Black Holocaust [1] [2] [3] are political neologisms popularized since 1988 [4] [5] [6] [7] to describe the history and ongoing effects of atrocities …

2024年6月28日 · Ashe Cultural Arts Center will be hosting its 2024 Maafa commemoration, Radiant Rhythms starting at 7 a.m. July 6. This year’s Maafa will be centered around the power of African drums. Drums...

MAAFA, a Kiswahili word that means “great or horrific tragedy,” refers to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, also called the Middle Passage. MAAFA commemorations, which occur in New Orleans during the July 4 th weekend, offer the community and opportunity to pause and honor the ancestors who perished as well as those who survived the horrifying ...

Maafa is a Kiswahili term for disaster, calamity or terrible occurrence. This term has been used to describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade/Middle Passage. people of African Descent are invited in an attempt to honor our ancestors who have suffered through the middle passage AND the lives that continue to be compromised due to racism and ...

2024年7月6日 · MAAFA is a Kiswahili word meaning “horrific tragedy” and refers to the period known as The Middle Passage. This year’s event is presented by Ashé Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 7:00am, beginning at Congo Square (701 N Rampart St.)

The Maafa Commemoration offers an opportunity for the entire community to pause and reflect on a horrific transgression against humanity, and how to personally, as a community, agree to distance ourselves institutionally in word and deed from that transgression, its legacy, and the evolved practice