The Ancestral Spirit of Africa Speaks In A Quiet Voice

Jerel Shaw
@jerelshaw



Presently, I am finishing a book that I envision being published before the end of 2019.  I find it a unique essay in the sense that the reader will find an interweaving of prolong dichotomy that separates the Africa roots from what we call Black American diaspora.  It's been a long process of disenfranchising American Blacks from their ancestral roots.  The book is not a history lesson on how blacks have through slavery have evolved from the motherland to a foreign land, but it is a commentary filled with flashes 'what if'.

The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century, after the Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa. At first the number of enslaved Africans taken was small. In about 1650, however, with the development of plantations on the newly colonised Caribbean islands and American mainland, the trade grew.  The slave  for America until 1808 - that's nearly two centuries of shifting black souls from their continent to the continent ruled by whites.  Mind you, that the slave trade extended beyond that 1808 depending on the overall pervasive depth of whites in the world did a thorough job of de-constructing the black soul.

One day, she says, she began hearing voices. Rather than 

call her doctor, she called on her ancestors, writing down the 

names of those she could remember and surrounding herself 

with the slips of paper. She claims that this took place before she 

knew what the practice of ancestral worship was.[1]

[1]  https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjgxx4/jesus-hasnt-saved-us-young-black-women-returning-ancestral-religions (Person rediscovering African religion and tradition)