Leah Penniman, author of FARMING WHILE BLACK and founder of Soul Fire Farm, challenges the notion of human supremacy over nature in this powerful personal, philosophical, and historical essay.
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“As African Americans, our 400-plus years of immersion in racial capitalism—the commodification of our people and the planet for economic gain—has attempted to crush our sacred connection to the Earth. Many of us have forgotten that our cultural heritage as Black people includes ecological humility, the idea that humans are kin to, not masters of, nature.
Despite the pressures to assimilate, there are those who persist in believing that the land and waters are family members, cling to our ancestral ways of knowing, and continue to practice Earth-based technologies. Among the myriad Afro-Indigenous practices that can assist all of humanity on our journey to an ecological civilization, three are explored herein: Ifa divination, soil stewardship, and cultural biomimicry.”
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https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/afro-indigenous-land-practices/
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