Watch the short documentary video, The Balanta People, by Balanta brother Arasa Malik. The video is dedicated to Ngadesa Thokmon R.I.P.
Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain, Volume 1
Book Synopsis
Siphiwe Baleka, concerned with the lost history of his family because of the criminal European and American Trade in African people and their enslavement, uses DNA testing and a lot of research to reconstruct the history of the Balanta people all the way back to their origin in Ta-Nihisi, Nubia (Sudan), in prehistoric times. Volume I covers that history up until their exodus during the Egyptian XVIII Dynasty (1479-1429 BC). The book is presented as a letter to his sons, so that they will know the full dignity of their ancestral heritage. But the book is also of immense value to all people of African descent whose ancestors were the victims of American slavery, and whose descendants have suffered from forced integration at the expense of their lost ancestral culture, traditions, stories, histories, philosophies, creations, language, and even their names! Volume I is not only the history of the Balanta people, it is the pre-history of all black people.
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Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain, Volume II
Book Synopsis
In Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain Volume I, we established the following facts:
1. Our paternal ancestors are the Balanta who live in present-day Guinea Bissau on the West Coast of Africa.
2. Our ancestors share a common lineage with Bantu and Nilo-Saharan people of North East Africa.
3. More specifically, our ancestors lived in Ta-Nihisi, Nubia. Today, that area is called Sudan.
4. Between 18,000 BC and 332 BC, Balanta ancestors made numerous migrations from Ta-Nihisi and Ta-Meri to West Africa.
This book, Volume II, explores in some detail those migrations, where we went and what happened to us until the first encounters with the Portuguese on the coast of Guinea Bissau. It also dwells at some length on the origins of peoples and religion up until the time of Mohammad, because it is impossible to understand the resistance of the Balanta without understanding the spiritual corruption of those who sought to conquer them.
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Balanta B’urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain, Volume III
Book Synopsis
The third volume of Balanta B'urassa, My Sons: Those Who Resist Remain covers the history of the Balanta people from the time of the first arrival of Portuguese to the coast of Guinea Bissau until the capture of Siphiwe Baleka's great, great, great, great, great grandfather, his arrival in the Carolinas, and his enslavement by the Blake family. This is the book that explains Balanta life prior to the European trans Atlantic slave trade and the who, what, where, when and how the majority of Balanta people ended up in North America.
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