Cultural Earth Never Surprises Those It Will Destroy: Wisdom from Indigenous Science for Today One of the most alarming symptoms of the disconnection of modern human beings is that we have lost this communication with the natural world. We no longer pay attention to Nature’s voice. By The Rising Firefly • 9 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
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
Cultural Free Who are you? So the question of “Who are You?, is a concept that will take every individual on a journey to reconnect with themselves By The Rising Firefly • 1 min read
Cultural Free The Sacred Responsibility of the Ancestral Vow The world will continue to offer distractions. Material success will continue to be sold as the highest achievement. Survival will continue to demand our time and energy. Yet beneath all of this lies a deeper responsibility. By The Rising Firefly • 8 min read
Zaghwa/Beri Tribe Heritage & Cultural Day Cultural The Surprise Invitation A surprise encounter leading to cultural exchange with the Zaghwa Beri Tribe. By The Rising Firefly • 8 min read
Cultural Free Astronomical Timing: What We Need To Know: The Sidereal Calendar The Sidereal Calendar is the only concept of time division that is based purely on astronomical knowledge. This calendar, in reality, is 73,300 years old and its quality still imposes itself onto all scientific works of modern astronomy. By The Rising Firefly • 4 min read
Harmonious Healing Free The Midwife is a Healer by Gingi Cleopatri Allen Modern medicine is overly focused on machines and tests, often producing false positives, as the primary way to support pregnant women. Yet the indigenous way, which honors spirit, mind, and body holistically, is the foundation of health for both the pregnant woman and unborn child. Blood By The Rising Firefly • 8 min read
Photo by Kévin et Laurianne Langlais / Unsplash Cultural Free Wherever You Go: The Passport of Kemetic Government by Nezeziyah Sakuhai “Kemetic government structure –even if you apply it in your life and anywhere you go, you are welcome wherever you go. Above all, it’s just that aspect of honoring the one in front of you… that’s the respect and the humility.” –Neb Iritah Shenmira Naba By The Rising Firefly • 4 min read
Photo by Shubham Panwar / Unsplash Cultural When Two Brothers Fight It is becoming a familiar pattern for African leaders to blame foreigners for everything that is going wrong. External forces are real, but we must also recognise that, at this point, poor leadership is one of the greatest contributors to the continent’s current predicament. By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read
Cultural How did I come to be? If we are serious about answering the question in the title of this article, we have no choice but to go as far back into history as we can. Only then can we start the work of properly orienting ourselves in the time and space we currently find ourselves. By The Rising Firefly • 6 min read
Cultural Free Visit to the Consul General of Burkina Faso in New York City Disciples of Dogon Master Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig met with Burkina Faso’s General Consul, Estelle Pélagie P. Segda Gango in New York City, strengthening a shared commitment to culture, diaspora engagement, and the development of the homeland By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read
A protestor gestures and holds a placard during a demonstration in front of the South African Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia on September 4, 2019 SALIM DAWOOD/AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Cultural Alienation and the ‘South African’ Dilemma (Pt. 2): The Architecture of Alienation The question before us is not simply why xenophobia has resurfaced in South Africa, but how Africans came to regard one another as strangers in the first place. By The Rising Firefly • 9 min read
Cultural Free THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION: How Two Revolutionaries from Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré and Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig, are using Psychological Warfare to Crush Africa’s Biggest Enemies (Part 1) Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig is one of the Indigenous Elders and Wisdom Keepers of Africa who have been fighting for Africa’s mental and spiritual liberation for decades. By The Rising Firefly • 30 min read
Indigenous Wisdom Circumcision, Colonialism & the Danger of Calling Other People's Traditions "Barbaric" As someone who has spent years studying indigenous traditions, one thing I've learned is that there is a profound difference between choosing not to participate in a cultural practice and declaring that practice barbaric. By Irishapi Pernebsati • 3 min read
Photo by Natilyn Hicks Photography / Unsplash Cultural Free A Message to Black People Part Three We must take the harder path: to look in the mirror, to abandon self‑loathing, and to remember that the greatest forces we can touch are the forces of nature itself. By The Rising Firefly • 8 min read
Photo by Dan Counsell / Unsplash Cultural Writers For Tomorrow If we truly believe that our Ancestors’ knowledge is valuable, then we must take up the pen, or sit before the keyboard, as one of the tools of our responsibility to defend their legacy. By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Cultural Rewilding the Mind Through Language Through language, we can rewild our minds without rejecting modernity. Rewilding is not a retreat—it is a refusal to let modernity diminish our awareness. By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Cultural Alienation and the ‘South African’ Dilemma (Pt. 1) By Sama’at Sakuhai Once again, the atmosphere swells with palpable tension around the false premise that humanity is somehow separate from one another. This story can be told in a thousand different ways to reflect a thousand different flashpoints in the sequential aftermath of events that point to a By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read
Cultural Burkina Faso’s Path to Sovereignty Pt 2: The Black Winter A breakdown of Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso speach at the Summit of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) in Bamako, December 2025 By Kasabez Maakmaah • 20 min read
Cultural Free The Dogon Are Walking The Dogon Are Walking is a yearly tour where the Dogon travel to places around the world sharing their knowledge. The unique position of the Dogon is that their physical dwellings and rough terrain allowed them to escape much of the devastation of colonization. By Djedka Zeshera • 3 min read
Cultural African Sovereignty in Search of Authentic Foundations: Part I True sovereignty cannot be attained without: a mastery over external influences, a re-appropriation of cultural foundations, and the capacity to produce a model that is uniquely our own—coherent and sustainable. By Iritah Shenmira NABA • 7 min read
