When Two Brains Breathe Together: Neural Synchrony and the Ancestral Science of Ubuntu
A Dagara funeral lasts three days. Not because grief requires that long — but because healing does. The drummers play until mourners’ bodies stop fighting the rhythm and join it, until wailing rises and falls in waves that move through the gathered as one breath, one sound, one body of people. Modern neuroscience has a […]
Charcoal’s Ancestral Fire: Versatility Beyond the Grill
We will explore the many uses of charcoal and discover the different ways it can be utilized outside of the grill. So, come along and learn about the many ways to harness the power of charcoal!
Exercise and Alzheimer’s: Building Resilience Through Movement and Community
When we think about Alzheimer’s disease, we often think about loss — loss of memory, loss of self, loss of independence. But there is another story we can tell. It is a story not about decline, but about resilience. Not about what we cannot do, but about what our bodies know how to do if […]
Africa’s Biodiversity at Risk: Why Community-Led Conservation Is Working
Africa is a continent that is home to some of the world’s most awe-inspiring wildlife and wilderness. However, these natural wonders are increasingly at risk due to human activity. Without proper preservation, the wildlife and wilderness of Africa will be lost forever.
Black Wall Street Was Not a Miracle — It Was a Blueprint
UBUNTU VILLAGE · WHAT’S NEW One hundred and five years ago, on the night of May 31, 1921, a fire was set that was not an accident. White mobs — armed, deputized, and in some accounts assisted by aircraft — descended on the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma. By morning, they had reduced one of […]
My Thoughts on the Connection Between Life and Spirituality
Everyone has their own thoughts and beliefs on this subject, and this blog post is my opinion on the connection between life and spirituality.–Michele
The Body Was Never the Limit: What African Ancestral Traditions Knew About Leaving It
Out-of-body experiences in ancestral traditions were never anomalies to explain. They were mapped, practiced, and held in community long before Western neuroscience arrived. The Yoruba, the Kemetic traditions of ancient Egypt, the Dogon of Mali, the practitioners of Candomblé, Vodou, and Lucúmí — all carried the same knowledge across continents and centuries: the spirit is […]
Free Will, Destiny, and the Wisdom of “We”
The West frames free will and determinism as a duel. Our ancestors asked it differently. Through Ubuntu—“I am because we are”—agency isn’t freedom from the past, but the freedom to choose how we carry it forward, for those still to come.