MAAFA@30 Program Link

 

Program Link:

https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2025/10/maafa30-program.html

Items requested for Community Altar

This year Mama DvinaEstrella Ramey is curating our Ancestral Altar. Please bring items from this list. We use battery operated candles because the wind blows out those lit with fire. Please label all non-perishable items like cloth, tables, vases, baskets... so we can return them. Do not forget to collect your items at the conclusion of the ceremony. We will begin assembling the altar at 5 am. Bring powerful light torches. It is dark at the beach. We meet at Fulton Street@The Great Highway. Strong arms and bodies can assist with moving items from cars to ritual site. 

"Celebrating our spiritual connection, our wealth our immortality, and our collective elevation with our Ancestors!

Please bring offerings used to communicate, nurture, elevate, nourish, and invigorate the spirits of our ancestors! 🤍🙌🏾"

White Flowers - Vases

Woven Baskets

White cloth large and small pieces

African fabric

White candles (in glass)

Bowls or bottles of fresh drinkable water

Bright colored fruits

Collard greens

Corn

Squash

African Yam

Bitter Kola. (OROGBO)

Kola nuts ( OBI ABATA)

Coconuts

Tobacco

Collared greens

Gin

White Rum

Coffee

Candy

Bubbles

Crayons

Small toys

MONEY

We give thanks to our Community and Our Ancestors.

Any fabric, Baskets Vases will be returned if folks could please mark tape with name 🙏🏽

If you have capacity, bring a dish of cooked white rice with honey in it as an ancestral offering, or any other cooked dish you'd like to bring.

Remember to take your dish home 🙏🏽🤍

"Ọkàn mi lori ilẹ niwaju rẹ"

In response to a question regarding where to purchase African yams and liquor.

"Some items such as, African Yam

Bitter Kola ( orogbo)

Kola Nut ( obi abata )

Can be found at "Man must wak" African Caribbean Market in Oakland.

White Rum can be found at Food 4 Less or and grocery store that sells Alcohol.

Folks may need to look around for cowries but I have a few to bring.

Ms. Wanda to community:

I bought 100 cowrie shells online. They arrive Saturday. I also purchased bubbles. I will bring White flowers for the altar with vases and battery powered candles. I will get a dozen red roses 🌹 for the Ritual of Forgiveness. 

MAAFA@30 Sunday, October 12, 2025

 

MAAFA Commemoration 2024 Slide Presentation created by Ms. Wanda Sabir

 

MAAFA Commemoration San Francisco Bay Area@29 photos by Zochi

MAAFA 2024@Ocean Beach
by Wanda Sabir

       The 29th Annual MAAFA Commemoration San Francisco Bay Area met at Ocean Beach, Sunday, October 13. Warm and cloudy with waves as high as tall buildings, we gathered to honor African Ancestors. The 50 or so children and adults gathered felt their Ancestors ethereal embrace as Min. Imhotep and Min. Alicia poured libations and invited us to call their names with our mouths, feet and hands.  Birds on the beach lifted their wings in flight moving towards us and flying overhead like African ancestors flew away from plantation fields. Their collective Aṣé! The theme was accountability and as Zochi led us through Mu-i (pronounced moo-ee) we embraced our power from our roots through our crown chakras. Dr. Uzo taught us the Ibo war chant—“Eyinmba” which was also an embodied movement. Our ancestral poet this year was Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) born in Baltimore to free parents. She was a poet, abolitionist, suffragist, educator and freedom fighter who lived in Philadelphia.

      "It's time to be a grown person." Ms. Wanda Sabir, Maafa CEO stated. "Own up, fess up, get righteous. Accountability means we don't blame others for our poor choices and their consequences. We don't blame the system, genetic weakness, structural racism, poverty of the soul, families of origin, peer pressure, ignorance....
     "We are more than the worse thing we have suffered. We are more than what our ancestors survived.
     "Our ancestors do not want us to be functional. Our ancestors want us to be free."
      The drummers were phenomenal, and the section of the program open to reflections was filled with song, poetry, dance and prayers. A special treat were Karamo Susso and Amina Janta, "Amkara Music." They perform at Bissap Baobab in San Francisco, Oct. 20.  
      People came from as far as Monterey and Sacramento to just up the block. Join us for a Zoom dialogue on adrienne maree brown's article, “Murmations: Love Looks Like Accountability” (Yes! Magazine, 7/25/22): Sunday, Nov. 10, 2-4 pm PT. Register in advance: MaafaSFBayArea.com, 510.397.9705. Here is the MAAFA 2024 program (https://qr1.be/CPFI).

MAAFA Commemoration San Francisco Bay Area@29 photos by Neset