Alkebu-Lan Way's video: ASWA: Can revolutionary art thrive outside a revolutionary movement

Full Show Breakdown: https://alkebulan.org/2022/08/15/aswag-394-revolutionary-art/ we ask the question: Can revolutionary art thrive outside a revolutionary movement? 1) Where do revolutionary artists get their inspiration from? 2) what value is art to the Liberation movement? 3) To what extent can art inspire the movement? 4) Is there really a symbiosis between art and the Movement? How can it be reignited? Our Special Guests: Bro. Ldr. Mbandaka: Resident guest who is Spiritual Leader of the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement and an Afrikan-Centred Education Consultant. Bro. Ldr is a veteran activist of almost 40 years standing, a featured columnist in The Whirlwind newspaper and author of Mosiah Daily Affirmations and Education: An African-Centred Approach To Excellence. Bro. M A Bunia: is a Pan Afrikan ‘Lens’ Cultural programmer, organiser, screenwriter and educator based in London who was raised and educated by his father with Garveyite Pan Africanist principles, and via his membership to the A-APRP and his later development in the arts and special education sector has manufactured encounters with some of the biggest colonial/neo-colonial arts & education institutions in the UK, and their clientele. After 15 years of research ‘on their ground’, but on his terms, Bunia is committed to the development of Pan Africanist Black Nationalist analysis and praxis in the fields of lens cultures, semitotics & propaganda, and is currently in Senegal building a Pan African Multidisciplinary Arts & Academic research & residential co-op space, ‘Bánza Kunda’ (Think House) in Ouakam, Dakar. A strong advocate of cooperation and proximity between organisations, and a revival of technologies of assembly in our communities, he and his wife have embarked on movements to organise and build a network of co-operatives in the field of education and arts that honour the principles of Black Nationalist Pan African liberation theory and practice. In January this year he joined Filmmika – a Decolonial African Film Distribution Platform – as a co-director & programmer, (relaunch this autumn), and is currently at the mid-point of research In Senegal, Gambia & Kinshasa which will be published in a paper titled ‘Taking Inventory of Afrikan Cinema’. Bunia works in FE in London and is also working towards opening institutions in London, Kinshasa and The Caribbean. Future projects include The Pan Afrikan School of Power, Semiotics & Cinema, Pan African Lens Assemblies – A Journal of Global Afrikan lens cultural convergences & the Black Lens Co-op – a London Based filmmakers society. Web presence for each will be published before the end of Mosiah as an offering to Papa Garvey.’ Bro. Malick Diouf: is lives in Senegal and is an activist, author, scriptwriter and personal development coach and founder of a number of initiatives and events including: Tekki groupe, APDP of UCAD, USSEIN, MOSAAN and INOUBLIABLES VACANCES events. Mac Mic is an Afrikan Spiritualist that been works with young people, students,” in order to prepare them for the african/black-people revolution.” He has acted in a dozen films., the creator of L’étudiant (the student »: the first student’s magazine in Senegal with a Pan-Afrikan perspective) and is author of Succeeding In Higher Education: The 7 Secrets To Success At University. Sis. Tamu Mazama: is a young activist and musician. She was born in Philadelphia, USA but has spent extensive time in Guadeloupe and the Eastern Caribbean. She was home-schooled by her mother, leading Afrocentic scholar Ama Mazama since first grade. Sis. Tamu is multi-lingual She has visited 33 countries in five continents. She is the author of Seventeen Dry Seasons, a representation of the world’s condition through her own journeys and eyes. She is currently a third-year student of Africology at Temple University.