Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to this picture or quote. It is being used for educational purposes only. Music is My Medicine! It is emotive, medicinal, and spiritual for me. It celebrates, heals, cleanses, empathizes, comforts, calms, uplifts, motivates, de-stresses, praises, honors, transmutes, and brings back sweet memories! I can get lost in it for hours. My favorite genres of music expand across Africa(n) diasporas.
A Night in Río! Afro-Brazilian Art Forms (2023) Samba, Carnival & Capoeira
KOFFEE Performs in Charlotte! ( 2022)- mi deyah!
ENG 296: Rhetoric of Protest Music: As a music enthusiast, I created and taught this course that examines how music historically has been pivotal in socio-political movements throughout the world, specifically within African and Latino Diasporas. 
LISTEN TO SOME OF MY FAVORITE *SONGS & BOOKS FROM THE DIASPORAS BELOW!
*Disclaimer: I have included YouTube links to some of my favorite songs by African-descendant artists in Palenkero, Kriolu, Patois, isiZulu, English, Spanish, French, & Portuguese that I use in my African Diaspora Seminar for educational purposes only.I do not own the rights to any of the songs or videos below(Fair Use).
AMARIGNA menager techiyalesh?
SPEAK LIFE!
Yuh know how fi chat PATOIS?
Bu ta papia KRIOLU?
Parlez–vous FRANÇAIS ?
Se o so YORUBA?
Você fala PORTUGUÊS?
Do you speak isiZULU?
¿Hablas ESPAÑOL??
Do you speak PALENKERO?
Ou pale KRÈYOL?
Do you speak LOVE?
Do you speak EMPOWERMENT?
Do you speak UPLIFTMENT?
Do you speak about your BLESSINGS?
Do you speak TRUTH/JUSTICE?
Do you speak HOPE?
Can you DANCE?
Do You Have Unshakeable FAITH?
MY GRAND-AUNT MATTIWILDA DOBBS*
*Mattiwilda Dobbs was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black woman to receive a long-term performance contract and to sing a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the first black singer to play a lead role at the San Francisco Opera.
Disclaimer-The Youtube links and article links above were not created by me and I do not have any copyrights over these documents or videos. They are just here to index songs on my playlist and for my students to locate to watch and read easily (educational purposes only).
Some of My Favorite Books Written by Authors from Africa(n) Diasporas:
LA NEGRA” (Black Woman): is a song/rap written & performed by me that celebrates Black women from Africa (“the Cradle of Humankind”) & its Diasporas.