Maternal Mosaic
A poem in celebration of Black matriarchy in Women's History Month (written text + audio)
For thousands of years, African societies were matriarchal and they prospered. By bringing an oppressive form of colonial Christianity to Africa, Europeans replaced millennia of prosperous matriarchy with oppressive patriarchy — allafrica.com
I come from a family that
remembers the matriarchs
a lineage that does not
equate deceased mothers
with disconnect
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