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<span style="font-size: large;">The Afrakan continent doesn’t show up in video games a lot. And when it does, it’s often shown in an exoticized way that makes it seem foreboding and dangerous. But an indie development team from Cameroon is going for something different: <span style="color: #cc0000;">an action-RPG that draws on Afrakan fashion, music and myth </span>for a saga aiming to be epic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Created by dev studio Kiro’o Games, <span style="color: #cc0000;">Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan</span> focuses on Enzo and Erine, a newly crowned king and queen out to defend their fictional homeland of Zama from a coup d’etat. With its focus on mystically augmented combat and increasing power levels, the plot unfolding in Aurion is pure fantasy. But, as Dragonball Z as it all feels, Aurion is clearly drawing on cultures and beliefs from the continent, transmuting them into a fictional universe all its own. You can see me play through the public demo of the game in the video below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Kiro’o means “spiritual vision” in Swahili </span><span style="font-size: large;">and the sense of mission comes across strongly when studio founder Oliver Madiba talks about Aurion. “In Aurion, with the story scenario, there’s a symbolic analogy between the trials of Enzo and Erine and the common history of Afraka and our place in the stakes of the world,” he told me over e-mail his week. [Note: Madiba isn’t a native English speaker and I’ve edited his responses for clarity.] “There’s a universal wisdom to be found in the fact that trials like these show the real humanity of people. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">For example, Enzo’s battle gear is a [re-imagined] Masai tunic.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> When you look at some Aurion’s NPCs, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">you can identify various clothes inspired by many people: the Touareg (Mali), the Yoruba (Nigeria), the Peulh (Cameroon, Chad, etc.)</span><span style="font-size: large;">. There are a lot of examples but the game’s history remains a fantasy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Madiba also said that influences from outside Afraka were part of the creative process for Aurion, too. “The idea was to create an RPG with a ‘shonen-like’ story,” he offered. <span style="color: #cc0000;">“The Aurion energy was already based on linking with ancestors, which is something very common in most Afrakan traditions.”</span> The game takes place on a world called Auriona, premised on the idea of an Afraka that evolved in a different way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">“Auriona is based on a fantasy view of what Afraka may have been if we weren’t colonized,</span> but it is really another world with another cosmogony (not a Big Bang),” Madiba offers. He says they imagined another world based on the Middle Ages: no electricity, no Industrial Revolution and a lot of magic. “The main idea was to create the lore of the game with another set of mind. <span style="color: #cc0000;">We wanted the team not to focus on technological evolution but on ‘artisanal evolution.’</span> The goal was to imagine the kind of problems a world based on Afrakan countries’ inner conflicts and philosophies may have, while keeping it interesting for non-Afrakan players too.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike many fans, Anthony Mackie — AKA the Falcon in Marvel's Captain America and Avengers movies — isn't concerned whether or not the studio hires an African American director to take charge of its first black superhero movie, 2018's Black Panther.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I don’t think it’s important at all," the actor told The Daily Beast during a promotional appearance for his current project, Our Brand is Crisis. "As a director your job is to tell a story," he continued. "You know, they didn’t get a horse to direct Seabiscuit!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mackie went on to say that he doesn't believe that the race of a director "has to do with their ability to tell a story," adding, "I think it’s all about the director’s ability to be able to relate to that story and do it justice. I think men can direct women, and two of my greatest work experiences were with female directors. So I think it all depends."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At one point, Selma director Ava DuVernay was in the mix to take on Black Panther, which features Chadwick Boseman in the title role, before dropping out because she didn't "see eye to eye" with Marvel over the direction of the project. The studio is in negotiations with Joe Robert Cole to write the movie. Relatedly, Marvel's publishing arm announced last month that MacArthur "Genius" grant winner Ta-Nehisi Coates will write its new Black Panther comic book, launching in January.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The comments, which have already drawn criticism on social media, put the actor into hot water for the second time this week. An interview with BET on Monday, in which he appeared to endorse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, required a hasty takeback on Twitter after fan complaints. </span></div>
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<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">C'mon dude, really. That's almost analogous to saying "As an actor your job is to play a character." followed by "You know, they didn’t get a dolphin to play Jaws." So lets recap; the Black Panther can be played by a white man as long as said white man can act and despite Flipper's excellent screen test he'll never play the shark. Have no fear, soon the so called color line will vanish and all so called blacks will be just another shade of white. For real. <br /><br />The question I pose in regards to this position as it concerns BP's director is; why is it necessary for a so called black person to make such a statement? At one point there are screams for diversity and inclusion and at the other end denial of one's ethnic identity, cultural uniqueness and a lack of ethnic solidarity. Such is the cost.<br /><br />Of course its true that a non so called black person could successfully direct a BP film, however this penchant for stating the obvious seems to rear it head whenever so called blacks want to show race, culture, gender and political neutrality. The reasons for such behaviors are all too transparent. Its like saying a search for a black director will not yield a qualified candidate.<br /><br />Of the more than 600 major Hollywood films released since 2007, less than 7 percent had black directors according to a study released by the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. With “a ratio of over 16 non-Black directors working to every 1 Black director,” and only two black women directors among the films considered. <br /><br />I can appreciate Marvel hiring Afrakans (so called blacks) to write and draw the BP's comic as well as their attempt to bring Afrakans (so called blacks) to write and direct the BP movie.<br /><br />There is absolutely nothing wrong with Afrakans at the helm of the Black Panther franchise, in fact it is most right.</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tony Elumelu, a philanthropist and African billionaire, is a highly respected businessman with specialized training in economics, wanting to change the economic standing of those in the African-American community. Elumelu chairs Heirs Holdings and Transcorp and is also the founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2014, Elumelu, along side of other respected American and African business moguls, helped form a three day summit in Washington DC that consisted of more than 45 African and American business heads, along with 50 African business leaders. The goal was to strengthen the economic bond and provide opportunities for those that participated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elumelu spoke with Black Enterprise about his vision for a real partnership between the United States and Africa, not just a relationship of providing aid, but trade as equal partners, appealing investors and the need for consistent electricity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We should welcome the fact that the journey has finally begun. I like the nature of the imagined engagement between Africa and America. President Obama’s visit to Africa last year was the starting point,” Elumelu says. “The fact that they have realized the need to engage with Africa at the scale and magnitude that they are going about it now is welcome.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His foundation is playing their part by reaching out to minority and women-owned businesses. “The Tony Elumelu Foundation will launch an entrepreneurship program with 100 million dollars that will touch 10,000 entrepreneurs across Africa and the United States,” he says. “We will train and mentor them and create platforms for them to have commercial business engagements.”</span><br />
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This eponymous title borrowed from one of my most appreciated <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Gil Scott-Heron </b></span>albums (yes, I said album and not cd as a result of my being mature enough to appreciate vinyl) seemed all too apropos for the two articles I'm posting below.<br />
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Hidden deep in the South African Kalahari desert lays home to the world's most efficient solar electricity generation system.<br />
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A Swedish company which is helming the development of the project, which is integrating military technology along with an idea brought to light by 19th century Scottish engineer and clergyman is currently being tested, and many have very high hopes.<br />
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“Our whole team in South Africa has been hired locally, and our new systems have all been built with local South African labour. It works great,” says CEO Gunnar Larsson.“What we hope is to become one of the biggest competitors for renewable energy in the world.”<br />
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Their unique system in place ensures they get every last drop of sunlight put into the power grid, unlike current devices in place that waste roughly 15-20% just by hitting the grid alone.<br />
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One of the major challenges over the last few years has actually been to get the technology accepted by not just consumers, but also by the financing community (mainly referring to banks). This is sucha new concept that many have a hard time wrapping their heads around it but with cost savings such as these, people are going to have to do it.<br />
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Thankfully their projects have been privately funded, and should be green lit to go commercial soon.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">New Solar Panel Cuts Energy Bills In Half. South Carolina Power Companies Are Furious Over New Policy.</span><br />
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This is the 1 simple truth your power company doesn't want you to know. If you currently own a home and live in a qualified zip code, you could be eligible to get an extremely huge discount on your energy bill.<br />
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Additionally, the government has implemented new energy policies that gives $1,000's back to every consumer who uses solar panels. But do you think your power company will tell you that? I bet not. When homeowners visit the Provide Solar Savings™ official site and enter their address, the results can be pretty shocking. We weren’t surprised when we got questions from homeowners askingif these rates are real. The truth is people say it‘s possible to save up to 70% on their car energy bill and some say they were eligible for rates as low as $19/ month due to recent policy changes. When we heard about these claims, we decided to investigate it for ourselves.<br />
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Our in house financial team set out to test these types of savings and after a few days of research what they found was very exciting. Our team discovered that not only were these claims true, but that one of our team members ended up saving over $1500 a year when compared to what they were previously paying. They also found that many other people are indeed able to save similar amounts.<br />
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Does this mean you're being scammed by your power company? Our research indicates that many people are being misled into thinking these savings aren't possible with your home. When one of our team members confronted their power company about this, they were told "because every house is different, we weren't sure if your house would work with this type of program." Yeah, right.<br />
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For more info http://providesolarsavings.com/africansolar.htmlPya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202441124809584308.post-20561312695869135042015-10-13T23:39:00.000-07:002015-10-13T23:39:42.842-07:00The Persuasions Mallence Bart-Williams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. <b>Mallence Bart-Williams</b> introduced her second home Sierra Leone and its talented people, who are part of her project FOLORUNSHO. <br /><br /><div>
Mallence Bart-Williams was born in Cologne, Germany. She is a Sierra Leonean writer and filmmaker and a German fashion designer. She pursued her studies in economics and finance in Paris, Singapore, and Great Britain.<br /><br />Today she lives across the globe, produces an all-natural cosmetics line in Hong Kong, and is the founder and creative director of the Freetown-based creative collective FOLORUNSHO, a ‘SHARITY’ that she initiated with street kids in Sierra Leone</div>
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Pya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202441124809584308.post-45422612272767016622015-10-12T00:16:00.000-07:002015-10-14T01:43:33.548-07:00Panther Vision <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I can't wait to see the Black Panther drawn like this in the pages of his new series.</b></span><br />
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The initial "Black Panther" arc is described as a "yearlong story line," and is titled "A Nation Under Our Feet," a deliberate reference to the 2003 Steven Hahn book of the same name. The Marvel story is said to "find the hero dealing with a violent uprising in his country set off by a superhuman terrorist group called the People."<br />
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This statement has me a little concerned." Coates cites current Marvel event "Secret Wars" and its writer Jonathan Hickman as an inspiration for his comics work." None the less I'm excited to see what Coates delivers.<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Chadwick Boseman to Star as Marvel's Black Panther.</span> Fans have clamored to see Black Panther make the jump to the big screen in his own solo adventure, and come November 3, 2017 they’ll get just that! As part of his presentation of the full slate for Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has announced that <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Chadwick Boseman will bring the Black Panther to life beginning with his role in Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” in theaters May 6, 2016, before starring in his own solo film, Marvel's "Black Panther," on November 3, 2017.</span></b><br />
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Pya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202441124809584308.post-67475574499018737042014-10-23T01:52:00.000-07:002015-10-14T02:13:12.486-07:00 Pya Kule Design Group visits Oyotunji Village<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PKDG Outreach</b> starts teaching our <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>American Afrakan Historical and Cultural Perspectives</i></span></b> course at <b>William Thomas Academy </b>in South Carolina today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our appreciation to WTA founder </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sheila Coplin...</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for providing the opportunity to expose her students to our curriculum. I knew something was up when I saw the name </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Amos Wilson</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">on the board. </span></div>
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Pya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202441124809584308.post-66446296768056375282014-04-18T03:00:00.000-07:002015-10-09T19:19:09.466-07:00Journey into the Barnes Foundation <span style="font-size: large;">The unnamed "friend" (<span style="color: #cc0000;">who insist on maintaining her anonymity concerning all things on line</span>) from my previous post and I visit the Barnes Foundation of the Fine Arts and Horticulture. My primary reason for visiting museums, art galleries and the like is to get inspiration for ways to artistically express the complex and diverse aesthetics that is </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Afrakan</span><span style="font-size: large;"> culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly enough, the Barnes Foundation's current site is where the Philadelphia Youth Study Center used to be. The YST was the first public school that I taught our <span style="color: #cc0000;">American Afrakan Historical and Cultural Perspectives</span>. I did it for little over two years. </span></div>
Pya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202441124809584308.post-769277583252501132014-04-03T17:38:00.000-07:002015-10-09T17:59:28.655-07:00Qatar Airlines Philadelphia Launch<span style="font-size: large;">A friend and I unintentionally crashed the dinner and reception for Qatar Airways that was hosted by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter at Ritz Carlton. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">she and I were able to enjoy an exquisite meal all in the company of Philly's elite. </span>Pya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202441124809584308.post-14995778662807182402014-03-16T17:09:00.000-07:002015-10-09T17:33:40.317-07:00Reishi Mushroom for Radiation ProtectionA little something of interest. Here is an edited exert.<br />
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Reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma lucidum, also called Ling Zhi, which means ‘spiritual fungus’) have a positive track record for safely reducing the damage done to the body by cancer therapies, and additionally have been highly regarded in Chinese medicine as a supreme longevity herb for centuries. They are regarded as having significant anti-tumor properties. Andrew Weil has promoted them as research-backed for protecting the bone marrow against the damages of radiation. Other effects of Reishi when taken as a dietary supplement include lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, improving respiratory and heart function.<br />
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One of the principles in nutrition such as the use of iodine to protect against radioactive iodine is that if the body’s mineral ‘holes’ are filled with the right mineral, it is less likely that they will grab on to the toxic or similar minerals. The Cesium-137 with its 30 year half-life can be grabbed like Potassium in the body. If someone is low on calcium, they will absorb more lead (Pb) which has a detrimental effect on behavior and brain function (lead poisoning decreases attention and social awareness, and leads to more anti-social criminal behavior such as theft, vandalism, and property damage)<br />
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One of the most useful steps in superior diet is to make sure you have a steady supply of good trace minerals. I like using Real Salt, the mined salt from Utah This salt has all of the trace minerals from the ocean of millions of years ago, without the cesium, plutonium, pesticides, mercury, etc., from modern times. I also like eating Planter’s Deluxe Mixed Nuts–no peanuts, also made with sea salt. Nuts have great fats, minerals, and amino acids. Nuts are my favorite dietary supplement. No mix of lab chemicals can match a nut,<br />
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The medicinal mushrooms, with Reishi being at the top of the list, offer the most protection from the myriad toxic influences we face, and from the specific current threat of multiple radioactive isotopes spreading from the multiple meltdown at Fukushima including the cesium, iodine, plutonium, and strontium.<br />
With the serious multiple toxins we are all being exposed to today, the medicinal mushroom Reishi seems a wise tonic food/herb to add to almost any diet and take for a long time–like a couple half-lives of cesium 137..<br />
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by Ancient Way Acupuncture Blog ancientWay.com/blogPya Kulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279679973772407518noreply@blogger.com0