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	The Way Out Is Back Through: Commemorating the African Holocaust
		New York, N.Y. (PRWEB) August 26, 2005 -- The 11th Anniversary Commemoration of The MAAFA is a week-long celebration that engages the entire community in understanding and embracing the legacy of the Middle Passage and leads toward a process of reconciliation and healing.
		Johnny Ray Youngblood, The Commemoration of The MAAFA (pronounced MAH-AH-FAH) began a decade ago at SPCBC as a movement to commemorate the more than 100 million Africans lost during a period in history known as the Middle Passage and the hundreds of years of enslavement that followed the voyage from Africa to America.
		Marimba Ani introduced the term MAAFA, a Kiswahili word for "great calamity, disaster, catastrophe, or tragedy," into contemporary scholarship in her seminal work Let the Circle Be Unbroken in an effort to succinctly redefine the horror formerly known as the Middle Passage.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/8/emw276819.htm (583 words)

	Toronto Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The word Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) is derived from a Kiswahili word meaning disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy.
		Maafa can be considered an area of study within African history where both the actual history and the legacy of that history are studied as a single discourse.
		The emphasis in the historical narrative is on African agents, as opposed to the normal Eurocentric voice; for this reason Maafa is an aspect of Pan-Africanism.
	www.torontopost.biz /Info/?Maafa (4089 words)

	Maafa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maafa or Black Holocaust refer to the deaths of numerous Africans on slave ships bound for the New World (early 17th century - mid 19th century).
		The word Maafa is Swahili for "immense deaths".
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	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ma/Maafa.htm (52 words)

	Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MAAFA is a Kiswahili word used to describe real calamity, catastrophe, tragedy or disaster.
		The commemoration event is a coming together of the community in order to memorialize and honor the millions of Africans lost in the horror of the slave trade.
		The focal point will be the premier of "The MAAFA Suite," a transformative spiritual and mental psychodrama which aims to heal collective memories.
	www.amistadamerica.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewpage&page_id=C7C339C1-FC48-5AF0-6961FA42CF8CC95C (455 words)

	Ligali \| Maafa \| Enslavement of Mama Africa
		One alternative translation of the Maafa that is also used is that of the "African Genocide".
		The rationale behind the proposed use of this word is that whilst 'maafa' refers to a great tragedy, it omits the intentionality of the act and could be misinterpreted as an accident.
		However, when translated to English the word 'maafa' is also used to define the words 'menace', 'threats', 'terror' and most importantly 'injustice'.
	www.ligali.org /maafa/what_is/problem_alternatives.htm (466 words)

	Maafa: The African Holocaust
		The term MAAFA is a Swahili word meaning "disaster" or "terrible occurrence,".
		Where Maafa describes a state of desolation, Ma'at is the active principle behind unity.
		While the word Maafa although beginning with the "Maa" sound, ends with a much different labiodental fricative resulting in the "Faa" sound, suggesting the loss of heat and energy that the word's meaning implies.
	www.angelfire.com /ny2/maafacom/maafa.html (226 words)

	Mount Aery Baptist Church :: MAAFA ::
		The commemorative efforts on the part of the church begins as a combination of spiritual ritual, transformative theatre and educational workshops that help African-Americans to revisit this horror experienced by their ancestors.
		The ‘MAAFA Influence Production’ is a local production, with nationwide appeal to be proud of, with local residents displaying a professional presentation.
		The ‘MAAFA’ is a professional psychodrama taking a look at the 'Pain of the Past' and how that pain directly affects our communities, even today.
	www.mtaerybaptist.org /maafa.html (588 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . TRANSCRIPT . Sept 29, 2000 \| PBS
		Maafa is now being commemorated in more than 50 other fl churches.
		Maafa, a term which means catastrophe in Kiswahili, is increasingly being applied to the African-American slave experience.
		When we began to talk about this level of degradation to our children, there was, I think, a certain kind of fear of what might this engender in the young to know that parents and grandparents and the ancestors went through this.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/405.html (3412 words)

	The Way Out Is Back Through: Commemorating the African Holocaust
		New York, N.Y.) August 26, 2005 -- The 11th Anniversary Commemoration of The MAAFA is a week-long celebration that engages the entire community in understanding and embracing the legacy of the Middle Passage and leads toward a process of reconciliation and healing.
		Johnny Ray Youngblood, The Commemoration of The MAAFA (pronounced MAH-AH-FAH) began a decade ago at SPCBC as a movement to commemorate the more than 100 million Africans lost during a period in history known as the Middle Passage and the hundreds of years of enslavement that followed the voyage from Africa to America.
		Marimba Ani introduced the term MAAFA, a Kiswahili word for "great calamity, disaster, catastrophe, or tragedy," into contemporary scholarship in her seminal work Let the Circle Be Unbroken in an effort to succinctly redefine the horror formerly known as the Middle Passage.
	www.prweb.com /releases/20051300/8/prwebxml276819.php (599 words)

	California Coalition for Women Prisoners
		Maafa is a Kiswahili term for disaster, calamity or terrible occurrence.
		For the past 12 years, this month is a time for the San Francisco Bay Area community to reflect on the legacy of slavery, its economic, political and social impact on the region and nation, and the residual psychological effects on descendants: perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries.
		Maafa Awareness Month is a time to look at how Africans or Black people, in particular, can heal from the trauma.
	www.womenprisoners.org (439 words)

	Honor and memory - Maafa
		It is a lesson that has compelled some Africans in the Diaspora to make the long journey home to the Motherland while others have sought to establish and renew cultural and spiritual ties to the land of our forebears.
		Kiswahili for "great disaster," Maafa is commonly referred to as the African holocaust.
		Maafa observances bring participants into closer communion with the ancestors who perished during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
	afgen.com /maafa2.html (786 words)

	African Maafa
		In 1977 a brother was inspired with a vision which he did not make public until 1989: “a new political and economic order for the 21st century; a new political awakening for the people of the Caribbean; the acquisition of economic power by ‘fl people’; the end of ‘white supremacy’ (racism) and of global oppression
		Maafa day and similar activities spawn that necessary consciousness that the masses need.
		She called for a series of national events to mark the year, and for the teaching of slavery to be better integrated into the school curriculum.
	www.acdagy.com /african_maafa.htm (2536 words)

	the Maafa Experience
		The Maafa Experience performed by Sankofa Theatre from July 20 to 25 at the Moore, is the largest Seattle event for and by people of African American decent.
		Maafa is the Ki-Swahili word for catastrophe, great calamity, tragedy, and holocaust.
		The Maafa Experience was the first time Philips saw and participated in a production so in-depth regarding the history of African Americans, from an African American perspective.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastissuesupgrade/2004_07_08/issue/current/features/maafa.html (979 words)

	things fall apart
		The word, "Maafa" is widely used by African Americans to describe the fact of slavers and slavery.
		Maafa 1 gives a wealth of information about the carving up of Africa and the slave trade and colonialism that took place over centuries.
		Try Maafa 2 to find pictures that tell some of the story of their suffering.
	www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us /score/things/thingsg2.html (1866 words)

	The Maafa
		The term "Maafa" (from the book, "Let The Circle Be Unbroken", by Dr.
		Maafa refers to the enslavement of our people and to the sustained attempt to dehumanize us.
		Because the Maafa has disconnected us from our cultural origins, we have remained vulnerable in a social order that does not reflect our cultural identity.
	www.africawithin.com /maafa/slavery.htm (142 words)

	Maafa Suite
		"Maafa" is a Kiswahili term referring to the catastrophic experience formerly known as the
		The MAAFA Suite is a powerful educational and spiritual commemoration that dramatically illustrates the captivity of free men and women from Africa, the long passage overseas in cramped, inhumane ship holdings, the millions of lives tortured and lost, and the lasting legacy of centuries of slavery in the United States.
		The MAAFA Suite Production offers an opportunity for all people to understand the nature of the oppression visited on generations of Africans in America.
	handson.org /maafa.html (157 words)

	Randall Robinson Returns as a Distinguished Lecturer at St. Paul Community Baptist Church"s 10th Anniversary MAAFA ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marimba Ani introduced the term MAAFA, a Kiswahili word for "great calamity, disaster, catastrophe, or tragedy," into scholarship in her seminal work Let the Circle be Unbroken in an effort to succinctly redefine the horror formerly known as the Middle Passage.
		The 10th Anniversary Commemoration of the MAAFA is a three-week celebration that engages the entire community in understanding and embracing the legacy of the Middle Passage leading to a process of reconciliation and healing.
		The centerpiece of the Commemoration, a spiritual psychodrama called The MAAFA Suite: A Healing Journey which depicts the capture, enslavement and survival of Africans, will be presented From September 13 through 25, 2004.
	press.arrivenet.com /entertainment/article.php/413695.html (461 words)

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		The particular segment of BGSA Week that we are requesting funding for will be a lecture on the Maafa by Erriel Roberson of Baltimore, Maryland during the early evening of February 23, 1996.
		The Maafa is a Kiswahili [East African] word that means great suffering, calamity or several other descriptors.
		Maafa appropriately describes the level of atrocities that diasporic Africans have suffered and continued to suffer from.
	web.mit.edu /course/4/4.288/Students/diop/proposal.html (449 words)

	The New York Times > New York Region > An Old Journey Forged in Pain; A Remembrance Born to Heal
		Maafa is what the slaves went through being told by the slaves, in the slaves' way.
		Over 18 days in September, that story is re-enacted by members of St. Paul, from the bloody capture of Africans in their villages to the brutal voyage in the holds of crammed ships, to the whippings, brandings and lynchings once they arrived.
		The heart of the commemoration is the Maafa Suite, in which dancers and drummers dramatize the African journey, a ceremony is held to bless young children and in a final daybreak yesterday at a beach in Far Rockaway, thousands of worshipers in white bid their ancestors farewell.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/09/26/nyregion/26ceremony.html?ex=1253937600&en=300775962a6dead1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (587 words)

	INFORMATION ABOUT MAAFA - 2004 Seattle MAAFA Website
		Maafa — Also known as the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage, is the Ki-Swahili word for catastrophe, great calamity, tragedy, and holocaust.
		Maafa is a Ki-Swahili word that means great tragedy, calamity, disaster, and holocaust, also known as the Middle Passage or Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
		The Maafa Suite was presented in Seattle in July of 2001 and 2002.
	www.cityofseattle.net /maafa/about.htm (1725 words)

	Ligali \| Me2We \| The Bristol debate: City says no to Maafa apology
		BBC reporting on the issue claimed that the City of ‘Bristol [agreed it] should apologise for its role in the slave trade’ but this erroneous conclusion was based solely on a show of hands following a passionate debate at the British Empire and Commonwealth museum.
		You chose to explore the idea in preparation of your 2007 Wilberforce celebrations and Labour Party ‘ten years in power’ anniversary, we were diligently preparing for Maafa 2007 without your insipid, insincere and emotionally juvenile political agendas.
		For the BBC to compare and give weight to the raised hands of a few hundred people in comparison to the thousands who participated in the phone poll and those who espoused racist anti-African views all week on Bristol’s airwaves is both inaccurate and deliberately disingenuous.
	www.ligali.org /article.php?id=462 (1103 words)

	Healing Ship
		With the Maafa, he hopes to heal what he sees as a national wound that affects the African American population and the entire country, through a dramatic purging of the past.
		By moving through this honest reconnection with the trauma of the past he says it is possible for African Americans and all of America to move forward to the future, and experience personal, political and economic change for the better.
		Youngblood hopes to take the Maafa commemoration and its message of healing to more and more fl churches all across the country, as well as help other churches facilitate their own commemorations.
	www.acfnewsource.org /religion/healing_ship.html (642 words)

	Colours School of the Arts, Fort Myers, FL - Maafa Suite (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You are invited to attend the MAAFA Suite, a cultural performance commemorating the African American experience through the Middle Passage to life today.
		It is the intent of the MAAFA to shed light on a lost legacy and recapture the dignity of a heritage that once was.
		The MAAFA Suite was created by Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood of St Paul's Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.coloursschool.org /events/maafa.html (544 words)

	Maafa: Remember \| The MoAD Salon \| Museum of the African Diaspora
		Maafa, Kiswahili for great disaster or unimaginable horror, is a commemoration that takes place in many cities in the “New World.” It is a time for people of the African Diaspora to reflect upon and honor their ancestors that experienced the horror of the Middle Passage.
		For many, it is also a time to contemplate contemporary society and the lives of people of the Diaspora today.
		Many commemorations that take place on the coasts of the North and South American continents culminate in a Sunrise Ceremony, where people gather on the beach to greet the sun and the spirits of the ancestors.
	moadsf.org /salon/features/maafa.html (111 words)

	Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - Congregational Leadership in Spiritual Formation - What we do (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maafa is a Kiswahii term for Disaster or Terrible Occurrence.
		The Maafa is known as the African Holocaust or the Middle Passage.
		The Middle Passage or trans-Atlantic slave trade is that portion of the Atlantic Ocean between West Africa and the Americas upon which European vessels transported African people into slavery in the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries.
	www.pcusa.org /africanamerican/whatwedo.htm (872 words)

	NJCLC Statement By Dr. Myers
		In response, we have embraced the term "Maafa", a Kiswahili term meaning "Disaster" or "Terrible Occurrence", to tell our own story about our enslavement and the sustained attempt to dehumanize us.
		Juneteenth is an ideal time for the remembrance of the Maafa in America.
		President Bush and the national media continue to ignore the significance of Juneteenth and the Maafa in America (http://www.juneteenth.us/pressrelease7.html).
	www.njclc.com /statement.htm (353 words)

	The MAAFA Suite: A Powerful Production - Global Black News (African American News) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For nine years now, as part of a two week long annual Commemoration of the MAAFA held in September, Reverend Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood and the congregation of St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York, Brooklyn, have performed the MAAFA Suite.
		The motto for the Commemoration of the MAAFA is "The Way Out Is Back Through." That is because Rev. Youngblood believes that the only way for people of African descent to pave the way for real change, both personal and political, is by acknowledging and purging the pain of the past.
		The use of the Swahili word MAAFA to describe what is often referred to as The Middle Passage was begun by the African American scholar and author Dr. Marimba Ani.
	www.globalblacknews.com /Lamb29.html (738 words)

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