Mami Wata in the Americas - Shantel George ( Plus Enslaved Igbo people - Juneteenth 2020 )

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  • Shantel George is a historian of early modern West Africa and the African diaspora, with a particular interest in enslavement, commodities, and African-inspired religious and medicinal practices. She serves as Director of the African Diaspora Studies Program at Marist. Dr. George teaches several classes in pre-modern African history and the African diaspora.
    Dr. George received her PhD from SOAS, University of London, and her master’s degree from the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her current book project, Liberated Africans and African Work in Grenada, explores the origins, experiences, and cultural legacies of Africans who were recaptured during the era of abolition and sent to the island of Grenada.
    Her second project, The Kola Nut in the Atlantic World, examines the African kola nut and its relationship to consumption practices and medicinal knowledge across multiple sites of the Atlantic world.
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    Shantel's 2015 Igbo Conference talk featured as a blast from the past at the virtual Igbo symposium on Disruptions: Breaks & Ruptures, which held from 17th-19th June 2020. Over the three days a range of speakers discussed significant moments of change for Igbo people, brought about by disruptive forces (both positive and negative). Conversations engaged with key historical events and changes in cultural practices, notions of identity and ways of seeing the world.
    To be notified about our events and our work in Igbo Studies, sign up for the Igbo conference mailing list at igboconference.com/newsletter/

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  • @tinasmith5752
    @tinasmith5752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    YOU/WE:
    MUST READ THESE BOOKS!:
    TITLES:
    THE SIBYLS: THE FIRST PROPHETESS OF MAMI (WATA) BY:
    MAMA ZOGBE
    *MAMI WATA: AFRICA'S ANCIENT GOD/DESS UNVEILED, VOL.-1
    BY; MAMA ZOGBE
    WE:

  • @fmc291
    @fmc291 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for this. Santeria is also frowned upon by Christianity. I’m so glad that many of these ancient tales survived over the centuries and continue to inspire people today. Many of the traditions of the Taino people have been lost and it breaks my heart that my ancestral stories didn’t survive the colonization.

  • @tiffanymj2934
    @tiffanymj2934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Mama water is showing up everywhere in America. Her characteristics are shown in the black culture and European influences. The fact that she is shown having this long flowing hair, light and dark skin,her spiritual links to fertility and she possess the woman also hit home. There is and evil undertones still. Thanks for putting out this info pls continue to bless with this knowledge. Learning the roots don't always look good and even though our culture have been put through so much pain, we shouldn't conform to evil.

    • @kimberlyparkerson4530
      @kimberlyparkerson4530 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who's mami wata what's it got yo do with us

    • @wildcreatrix12
      @wildcreatrix12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@kimberlyparkerson4530 she's part of the body of ancestors that Africans call the Diaspora. She is your First Mother. Tribal people trace their lineages all the way back to the first Mother, she was called Mami Wata.

    • @user-wg4cf2ot8k
      @user-wg4cf2ot8k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love you Baby for acknowledging our culture am a true Igbo and have reincarnated many times , accolades dear

    • @user-wg4cf2ot8k
      @user-wg4cf2ot8k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@wildcreatrix12 wow 😯 i love 💕 your courageous talks 😅she’s our mother oh!

    • @obatalaosun2222
      @obatalaosun2222 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What makes it evil?

  • @obiasika7151
    @obiasika7151 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    These connected stories and legacies are so important and explain so much of the black and igbo experience, thanks so much for this presentation

  • @emenanjonwadiei
    @emenanjonwadiei ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Other than Igbo Landing, I had no idea there was other documented evidence of Igbo slaves. I am delighted & heartbroken at the same time to see this information.

    • @obatalaosun2222
      @obatalaosun2222 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Start digging into the histories of Igbo people in Virginia and North Carolina.

  • @zahurajamila
    @zahurajamila 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you Dr. George for your grace, strength, will, and emotional intelligence to endure not only obstacles to be where you are academically in life, but also to be the voice to report global African Herstory/History and contribute to restoring dignity to the Seeds of Humanity whose skin radiates the sun.
    That deep breath (18:22) that you and We took when mentioning how Mama Zogbe petitioned to U.S. Congress to reclassify African Traditional Spiritual religions + practices from "occult and satanic"... We deeply comprehend and felt it...
    The audacity for a descendent of Free Africans, Mama Zogbe, then has to petition to the former human traffickers and their corrupt systems is...
    Well, Balance will be restored. Ma'At

    • @Mysticmimi7
      @Mysticmimi7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes they’re getting their revenge right. I understand that !

  • @mariaherradi8732
    @mariaherradi8732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Madre agua - Yemaya - The Regla virgin in the Caribbean ( Cuba & Puerto Rico ) also in South America . She has 7 paths and her colors are blue & white . The color depends in the path from soft blue Asasu Yemaya in the waves at the beach to deep blue as Yemaya Olocun in the depth ocean .Associated with healing , a fiery mother .Very serious and dont accept disrespect .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @Catfishbellyrae
      @Catfishbellyrae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Olokun isn’t mami wata or yemonja

  • @alyjulmim8447
    @alyjulmim8447 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Damn! The white man is also trying to make Mami Water look European.

    • @inesm.779
      @inesm.779 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ppl with no history/civilisations always steal from others😢

  • @koriwilliams486
    @koriwilliams486 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful ❤ thank you so much for this!

  • @144lyra
    @144lyra ปีที่แล้ว +2

    beautiful, thank you so much, this video brought me clarity and confirmation of my ancestry

  • @Zoltar69
    @Zoltar69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ii learned si much about Mani Wara Thank you!

  • @Mysticmimi7
    @Mysticmimi7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So interesting 💕

  • @natureknosis555
    @natureknosis555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful presentation 💜💜💜

  • @user-vp5bx4fx5y
    @user-vp5bx4fx5y 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We will be restored

  • @mrhimselfalone7657
    @mrhimselfalone7657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Virginia. The geographic origins of enslaved Africans are available for two-thirds (53,092) of the approximately 85,834 carried into Virginia. Most numerous were captives from the Bight of Biafra. They were especially dominant in the first half of the century. Thus Igbo, who were the majority of peoples living inland from the slave trading ports of Old and New Calabar and Bonny, along with coastal Ibibio, Efik, and Moko peoples from the Niger River Delta area of present-day Nigeria or adjacent Cameroon made continuous and substantial contributions to evolving African American culture in Virginia.

    • @mrhimselfalone7657
      @mrhimselfalone7657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maryland. The geographic origins of enslaved Africans are available for just over half (11,800) of the enslaved Africans carried into Maryland. Most numerous were captives from the region of Senegambia. They were followed closely by people from West Central Africa. In marked contrast to neighboring Virginia, in Maryland slaves from the Bight of Biafra were relatively few (12 percent versus 43 percent)...

    • @ladycash4675
      @ladycash4675 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mmmm, I need to do a DNA test. Maybe I can find my people sold into slavery living in Virginia. I will be proud to get them close.

    • @obatalaosun2222
      @obatalaosun2222 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      THANK YOU

  • @alliyahfrancis1061
    @alliyahfrancis1061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved this video.

  • @marymary-vg2ts
    @marymary-vg2ts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ohhhh...Now I see whos mami wata!! Okay...

  • @Therootdoctress
    @Therootdoctress 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🔱

  • @dollme3281
    @dollme3281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Erzulie and La Sirene are too different dieties in Haiti... Please let that not confuse the two

    • @tiffanymj2934
      @tiffanymj2934 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But all from the marine kingdom

  • @asaoblog
    @asaoblog 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I applaud her for trying but there are so much misrepresentations and lacks in her litterature on the Ayitian practices and understanding of Mami Wata, Ezili, La Siren and else. Hope she continues her research and takes more time to understand the African ancestral knowledge she will report on. Again, well done for trying.

  • @ibienemagazine3015
    @ibienemagazine3015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The bright of bonny was not owned by Igbo people.

    • @linkso7166
      @linkso7166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who owns the bright of Biafra/ bonny

    • @realkvng
      @realkvng 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@linkso7166 abeg ask am.... Some people go Just open mouth waaaa

    • @user-wg4cf2ot8k
      @user-wg4cf2ot8k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pls 😅don’t open mouth and say what you don’t know , Igbo is cradle of life make your research

  • @kennedyfinecountry
    @kennedyfinecountry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Misinformation as history