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SINNERS and the Three Worlds: A Cosmological Reading of Black Woundedness

Meserette KentakeApril 15, 2026May 25, 2026

April 15, 2026May 25, 20260

On the word Maafa In this cine-essay, I advance an original reading of Sinners that treats the film as a meditation on the Maafa as a cosmological rupture: the violent breaking of an African three‑world field that binds Ancestors, the Living, and the Unborn. The term Maafa...

Ryan Coogler: The Cinematic Medium

Meserette KentakeMay 23, 2026May 23, 2026

May 23, 2026May 23, 20260

Ryan Coogler’s birth chart features a Yod, a rare astrological configuration often called the “finger of fate” or “finger of God.” In astrology, a Yod signals a powerful sense of destiny and a singular life path. I had already written a meditation on Coogler as...

What is the Maafa?

Meserette KentakeApril 19, 2026May 3, 2026

April 19, 2026May 3, 20260

This essay explains how the term Maafa is used across Kentake Page. The term Maafa was introduced by Marimba Ani in her 1988 book, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, to capture the 500-year—and continuing—catastrophe of Atlantic trafficking and captivity. In Kiswahili, Maafa means “great disaster” or...

“The Identity of She”: Reflection on My African Ancestry DNA Results

Meserette KentakeMarch 25, 2026April 11, 2026

March 25, 2026April 11, 20260

When I first wrote “Identity of She,” I believed the questions I carried about the “first” mother in the poem would remain unanswered forever. Since childhood, I sensed an ancestral maternal presence speaking through me, but I assumed the archive, the ships, and the auction...

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