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Brooklyn Scrapbook
I hate to play favorites, but…I can honestly say that Ardenia Brown was by far our most enthusiastic host! Ardenia came to us through a mutual friend and was immediately like family. She has an extensive promotions background and so she was like a one woman African Ancestry PR machine!
Gina and Ardenia
As a proprietor of Butternut Market, Ardenia is part of a group of local entrepreneurs who are changing the way that Bedford-Stuyvesant views itself as a neighborhood. She organized her colleagues at Therapy Wine Bar and House of Art Gallery Brooklyn to bring the We Are Africa Road Tour to Brooklyn.
House of Art Gallery
Butternut Market Tasting
Butternut Market’s tasting also attracted a number of people from the neighborhood to the presentation, which was standing room only. The reveals were quite moving and the good times continued in the gallery and at Therapy Wine Bar. Bed-Stuy has roots from all over!
Angela Terry - Native American Roots!
Richard Beavers - Angolan Roots!
Alexia Billiart - Ghanaian Roots!
Ardenia Brown - Guinea Bissau Roots!
We had a great time in Brooklyn meeting the neighborhood’s architects, artists, young people, genealogists, and entrepreneurs. We were encouraged by the engagement of the youth and the number of families that came out to learn about finding their roots. Thank you Brooklyn!
A Family Affair
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I am so excited to find, and read about what’s going on out there; brothers/sisters searching for their ancestral land and relatives. I am an African have written a novel-science fiction on the subject of Africa to apologize for the crime we committed by selling you to strangers.
What a coincide! that I found this information at this time. I am a Tanzanian, and live in the uk, and all I know is, folks out there love you, admire you and see you as brothers. Yet, no one had thought of need to apologize. There is one reason behind that-awareness (we learned at school that ‘we’ were enslaved by whites and Arabs and latter colonized), I wrote my story after the realization-’we were partakers, and acomplice’. Please visit my blog, when you have time-www.therootsrespond.com.
We love you.
joshua afubo.
Hi Brooklyn Scrapbook,
I am joshua. and I have been here before. i have trying to enlighten us about some historic facts. I feel that we should all be aware that, the old songs we learned at school, chanting ‘We were sold like …, and later colonialized’ were a diviation from the truth. The fact is that we partook of the evi actl.
I want you to understand that, people back here admire you a lot, believe me. We see your achievements as ours. Surely, the hand of Lord is with you! Your Ancestral land shouldn’t be a strange land, but your own as well-we stole loads of acres from you-That’s how it should be.
Anyway, we have opened a page in face book mobilizing us (all of Africa) to get ready for an good act. It is called ‘Africa Apologize for the Crime of Our Ancestors Group’. Soon we will be hundreds of millions.
God bless you all,
pastor Joshua Afubo
Hi Brooklyn Scrapbook,
As small kids we saw the villagers in my place of birth Bukoba (Haya region) make knives, hoes etc from black stones. They would heat stones at very high temperatures to make steel, which was subsequently used to make needles, pots…
here is what they said about the steel making technology by Africans-in Time magazine-Monday, Sept. 25, 1978
… Schmidt and Metallurgy Professor Donald Avery, both of Brown University, report that as long as 2,000 years ago, the Haya people were…
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912179,00.html#ixzz25Fq8cEvG
posted by Joshua Afubo