Cultural 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 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 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
Cultural Clean and Simple A heart harboring emotions is likely to be blind to fruitful opportunities for growth and skewed to pessimism and depression. By The Rising Firefly • 2 min read
Cultural Mental Degeneration Mental degeneration is like a tick on an animal that thrives at the cost of its host, leaving it malnourished and operating at reduced capacity. By The Rising Firefly • 2 min read
Cultural A Kemetic Perspective: Heroes and Heroism Seeing how stories of superheroes can influence the minds of children today, it comes as no surprise that Alexander the Great's ambition to rule and conquer was once a cultural norm. By The Rising Firefly • 7 min read
