Our film was an official selection for the Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA and the Kwanzaa Film Festival in New York, NY. Our film won the award for Best Original Documentary at the Kwanzaa Film Festival:
Watch our film On-Demand now on our Vimeo site:
AMARUKAFO ADEBISA on Vimeo
**DVD UPDATE:
Because of the film festival schedule we pushed back the release of the DVD to March 31, 13020 (2020)**
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We are hosting screenings of our film and panel discussions in various cities across the country this fall and abroad. Seating is limited at our screenings. Pre-orders are available on this page. Your receipt from your purchase is your ticket of admission. Your receipt/ticket may be used to attend a screening in any city that you choose - except for film festival screenings. Check this page for the new schedule which will be posted soon:
Documentary Film
ADEBISA is an Akan term for 'divination'. Adebisa or divination is the means by which Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans~Black People) - and Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans~Black People) only - engage communication with Nyamewaa-Nyame, the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo, the Great Mother and Great Father Supreme Being, the Deities and Spiritually Cultivated Ancestral Spirits of our direct spiri-genetic blood-circles.
When Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans~Black People) were forced into the Western Hemisphere as a result of the Mmuso Kese (Great Perversity/Enslavement era) we did not lose our Ancestral Religion. We maintained our Ancestral Religious practices and passed them down intergenerationally and transcarnationally - through successive reincarnations.
The approach to aligning with Divine Order as practiced in Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) when we left the continent was fossilized in the bones and blood of our Ancestresses and Ancestors. It is this expression of culture that we passed down in the Western hemisphere. It is this expression that manifests within us as we restore our traditions.
It is this pure tradition that is returned to us by our Ancestresses and Ancestors via spirit-possession and spirit-communication on a daily basis. This took place on the plantations as we waged war against the whites and their offspring, massacred them, freed ourselves from enslavement and ultimately forced an end to enslavement in the Western hemisphere. It is this pure expression of our Ancestrally-inherited traditions that we restore today inclusive of our unique expressions of adebisa - divination - born of our spiri-genetic blood-circles in the West.
In May of 13016 (2016), we began gathering information regarding the project of restoration and reintroduction of those systems of oracular divination retained in Hoodoo (Akan), Juju (Yoruba), Wanga (Ovambo - Gullah), Ngengang (Fang) and Voodoo (Ewe, Fon) in North america.
AMARUKAFO ADEBISA: African-American Ancestral Divination - is our documentary film that documents Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) people in America, Amarukafo, African-American male and female diviners, healers and healeresses in the restoration and reintroduction of those systems of oracular divination.
Featuring: Mama Mawusi Ashshakir, Rekhit Kajara Nia Yaa Nebt Het, Wabet Seshat Tut Ankh Wadjet, Voodoo Queen Kalindah Laveaux and Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan
Philadelphia, PA - October 6th
Washington, DC - October 14th
Atlanta, GA - November 10th
Hartford CT - November 17th
Toronto, Canada - December 8th
New Orleans, LA - January 5th - See our event notification for details
Jacksonville, FL - January 6th - See our event notification for details
Atlanta, GA - January 19th - See our event notification for details
Durham, NC - January 26th - See our event notification for details
Jacksonville, FL - February 10th - See our event notification for details
Cincinnati, OH - March 2nd - See our event notification for details
Knoxville, TN - March 3rd - See our event notification for details
Washington, DC - March 24th - See our event notification for details
Cleveland, OH - March 30th - See our event notification for details
Detroit, MI - March 31st - See our event notification for details
Phoenix, AZ - May 11th - See our event notification for details
Pittsburgh, PA
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD
Richmond, VA
Charleston, SC
Savannah, GA
Tallahassee, FL
Miami, FL
Orlando, FL
New York, NY
Rochester, NY
Newark, NJ
Chicago, IL
Montgomery, AL
Jackson, MS
Grand Rapids, MI
Milwaukee, WI
St. Louis, MO
Tulsa, OK
Boston, MA
Kansas City, KS
Minneapolis, MN
Seattle, WA
Los Angeles, CA
Oakland, CA
San Diego, CA
Denver, CO
Las Vegas, NV
Portland, OR
Boise, ID
We will also be traveling to the Caribbean, Europe and Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa). We look forward to connecting with you all at our screenings.
Yeda ase (we thank you) for supporting this effort. This will be the first in a series of documentaries on our Ancestral Religion and Culture maintained in our blood-circles in North America.
Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan of Aakhuamuman Amaruka Atifi Mu, the Akwamu Nation in North America, is an Odumafo, traditional diviner of Hoodoo passed down through the blood-circles of his Aakhuamu (Akwamu) Ancestresses and Ancestors for centuries in Mississippi, Alabama and Chicago. Odwirafo is the author of 31 books, over 100 articles, 344 broadcasts on blogtalkradio, educational curriculua and more.
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