27th Annual MAAFA Commemoration 2022
Sunday, October 9, 6 AM-7:15 AM @Ocean Beach; Fulton
at the Great Highway
Livestreaming from FB.com/maafabayarea
(Masking and Distancing protocols in place. If you are sick,
stay home.)
This
ritual is for Black people, people of African descent who live this reality
daily.
Wear
white, bring instruments to play, flowers and food for the ancestors, candles
for the altar, prayers, poetry, a song to share.
Visit “Monumental
Reckoning” – the 350 Ancestors sculpture at Golden Gate Park
(near deYoung Museum) before you leave San Francisco.
The term “Maafa” is Kiswahili
for “terrible occurrence” or “reoccurring disaster” and has been used to
describe the European slave trade or the Middle Passage. The term “Maafa” also references the Black Holocaust historically and
presently. In the San Francisco Bay Area, October is Maafa Awareness
Month–it is a time to reflect on the legacy of slavery: victims and
beneficiaries in the short and long term and look at ways to mend, repair and
heal the damage to Pan African descendants of the enslaved and their New
Afrikan societies. The toll has been tremendous: psychological, economic,
social, physical, emotional and spiritual.
The Maafa ritual
is an honoring of our past and a prayer for our future. All black people are
invited to come and share in this time of remembrance. We ask for this one
event, those who support the well-being of black people respect our desires
about the commemoration ceremony and mourning ritual.
Add your African Descendent ancestor(s)
to the MAAFA Virtual Altar:
Visit the 25th Anniversary Art Exhibit:
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