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The Bitter Leaf and Women’s Menopause – Rasta Herbal Medicine by Jide Uwechia

bitterleaf2The Bitter Leaf and Women’s Menopause – Jide Uwechia

One of the best natural remedies for the symptoms of menopause is Bitter leaf.

Bitter leaf or Vernonia amygdalina is the name of a leafy shrub or small tree that can reach twenty three feet in height when fully grown. It is widely eaten in East and West Africa. The Nigerian Igbos call it “onugbu,” Swahili Tanzanians call it “mujonso.” The Urobos and the Itesekiris of Nigeria call it “Orugbu,” whereas the Yorubas call it Ewuro. read more

“Obama is not the One.. and Black is Back For Social Justice”: Glenn Ford Speaks

Glenn Ford Speaks: “Obama is not the One.. and Black is Back For Social Justice”

If we are to head off political and existential disaster, it is critical that Black-led formations reassert themselves to reverse the paralysis that has engulfed the Black Liberation, anti-war and anti-corporate movements since the ascension of Barack Obama. The evidence has accumulated in fearsome abundance: rather than unleashing the pent-up energies and aspirations of those who suffer under the rule of profiteers and militarists – most especially, African Americans – Obama’s rise has led to wholesale surrender of Black and “progressive” leadership to the financial and war-making interests embraced by the First Black President………………… read more

The Moorish Pirates of the Mediteranean Sea: The Riffian Muurs of Morocco – Ogu Ejiofo Annu

Riffian Berbers Early 20th Century
Riffian Berbers Early 20th Century
Riffian Moorish Pirates 2
Riffian Moorish Pirates 2

Riffian Moorish Pirates
Riffian Pirates
You will find in the photo-gallery below pictures of the famous Riffian pirates.

Those dudes were the inventors of the science of sea travel, cartography, navigation and piracy, being Muurs, who hitherto had controlled the seas, since the times of the Phoenicians to their fall in Spain to the combined forces of Rome’s crusading hordes in 1495. read more