Telling A Story!

Protect him, a traditional story. "What are your thoughts on this?"

There is a lot to remember in this image. The most provocative memory comes from the dark times of enslavement when African women created secret societies to protect their men, and fleeing slaves from the ravenous spirits of the whites! I think about Voudon and its importance to African survival, not only for their own, but the white women seeking refuge from their own men, and culture! There is Harriet Tubman's ability to kill those who wanted to return to slavery, and the Maroon societies throughout the African Diaspora. Lastly, I remember how this spirit permeates the ancestral links of our young people, who are unguided and unable to fit in their minds who they are, and how all these things align themselves into their systems of beliefs, action and inaction!

It is a deep story denied, captured and hidden and in the open,  and in action! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories