“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie
Kentake Page is a Pan-Afrikan Black history blog that celebrates the diversity of the Afrikan historical experience both on the continent and in the diaspora. Kentake Page is also a celebration and appreciation of Black writers and artists. The vision is to bring together history, literature, and art under one cyber-umbrella, to make Black/Afrikan historical, literary, and artistic achievements universally accessible.
Meserette Kentake’s statement:
“Captured, chained, sold,
My soul lament because it wants to know
the identity of she
who was captured in Afrika
and taken to the Americas
and is the root of my family tree
The identity of she
the mother of all my mothers
until there was me.
But there is no one to tell me
because nobody knows…”
Kentake Page is a praise song to the Ancestors, who are, in the words of Mazisi Kunene, “the mystery that envelops our dreams, the power that shall unite us, the strange truth of the earth, and are from the womb of the universe…” It is my spiritual offering to the world, inspired by my mother’s persistent encouragement: “You walk around with too much knowledge in your head. You must learn to share it with the world.”
My passion for reading began in childhood in Kingston, Jamaica, where I gravitated towards Caribbean history—a subject deeply intertwined with the story of captivity. I’ve read so many books that my eldest son once remarked, “You read enough books for the entire Black world.”
I read Black history through three interwoven worlds—the Living, the Ancestors, and the yet‑to‑be‑born—and through the Maafa (Transatlantic Slavery) as an ongoing humanicide rather than a closed chapter of “captivity.” In my work on Kentake Page, I treat the Maafa as a great catastrophe that shattered the sacred calabash of Being, scattering its fragments into bodies, memory, social structures, and the spiritual field. My writing serves to gather those fragments: honouring the Ancestors, insisting on the wholeness of the Living, and repairing our covenant with the children yet to be born.
Kentake Page is therefore more than a Black history site; it is an altar for the Ancestors, insisting that our story stretches across worlds—and that the afterlife of the Maafa must be faced if balance is to be restored. In honour of those taken into captivity, there are no advertisements on this website. If you would like to contribute financially or sponsor the blog, please contact me at meserette@kentakepage.com. Creating and maintaining this space requires time, energy, and significant investment, and I am grateful for any support. Medase.