Earth Never Surprises Those It Will Destroy: Wisdom from Indigenous Science for Today

Cultural

Cross-Examining My Values

When someone is guided by traditional African values, such as loyalty to Ancestors, spiritual discipline, and service to community, people shaped by Western ideologies often question their motives. They may assume there is a hidden agenda.

By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read

Cultural Free

How Colonisation Sustains Itself Through the Family Unit Across Generations / Rewiring the Family to Perpetuate Colonisation

Colonisation rebuilds the family unit in its own image.  It replaces names, language, ancestral knowledge and ways of being with those of the coloniser until the colonised become instruments of their own domination.

By The Rising Firefly • 13 min read

Cultural Free

THE FALL

by Resineith Pernebsati He has many names, but only one nature. He is “The Parasite”, the oppressor of all, the architect of a world built on what he has taken and refuses to return. He colonizes and forgets. Planting his flag in the soil of the history of others, rewriting

By The Rising Firefly • 2 min read

Indigenous Wisdom

The Honor We Owe

What values are we serving today? Are they rooted in our ancestral traditions, or are they given by the same systems whose agenda is the fracture and scattering of the family? Modern society often promotes individualism, consumerism, and a shallow idea of “freedom” that pulls us away from our roots.

By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read

Cultural

Cross-Examining My Values

When someone is guided by traditional African values, such as loyalty to Ancestors, spiritual discipline, and service to community, people shaped by Western ideologies often question their motives. They may assume there is a hidden agenda.

By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read

Indigenous Wisdom

Unsung Heroes

We honor them by telling their stories, by naming their resistance, and by remembering the hard fights they fought in silence. We honor them by refusing to treat African indigenous knowledge as superstition, and by holding fast to the legacy they preserved for us with their lives.

By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read

Cultural Free

How Colonisation Sustains Itself Through the Family Unit Across Generations / Rewiring the Family to Perpetuate Colonisation

Colonisation rebuilds the family unit in its own image.  It replaces names, language, ancestral knowledge and ways of being with those of the coloniser until the colonised become instruments of their own domination.

By The Rising Firefly • 13 min read

Cultural Free

THE FALL

by Resineith Pernebsati He has many names, but only one nature. He is “The Parasite”, the oppressor of all, the architect of a world built on what he has taken and refuses to return. He colonizes and forgets. Planting his flag in the soil of the history of others, rewriting

By The Rising Firefly • 2 min read

Indigenous Wisdom

Cosmological Displacement How The Worship of Another’s God Impacts the Self

To be clear, there is no judgment or moral condemnation to be passed on the choices of our ancestors. Without their survival discretion, neither the writer nor reader of this article would be here.  There can only be gratitude.

By The Rising Firefly • 11 min read