Sacred Calendar
Upcoming commemorations, seasonal observances, lectures, and community gatherings connected to ancestral memory, cultural repair, and spiritual responsibility.
Replay available for a limited time
This Juneteenth weekend event featured Reparations as Ancestral Responsibility as the opening presentation, with HM NebShakaRa opening libations.
The replay is currently available on YouTube.
Memorial and ancestral commemoration
August details to be announced. The exact date, format, location, and participation details will be posted when confirmed.
This memorial honors Bwa Kayiman as a sacred revolutionary moment in African diasporic history: a ceremony of ancestral covenant, liberation, resistance, and collective spiritual power.
Bwa Kayiman, also known as Bois Caiman, refers to the August 1791 Vodou ceremony remembered as one of the spiritual ignition points of the Haitian Revolution. It gathered enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue into a shared act of oath, ancestral calling, and revolutionary commitment.
Its meaning is larger than a single meeting. Bwa Kayiman stands as a model of African spiritual resistance: people under colonial terror calling on ancestral and divine power to break the order that held them captive. It reminds us that liberation movements are not only political. They can also be spiritual, communal, ancestral, and moral.
For Ancestral Egbe, remembering Bwa Kayiman is part of honoring the sacred memory of Haiti, African resistance, and the responsibility to protect cultural and spiritual sovereignty.