The Holy Spirit is not a "ghost."
She's the forgotten Womb of God.
The breath of creation.
The Mother.
In the beginning, She hovered over the waters, like a mother in labor.
The true Trinity is a family:
Father. Mother. Child.
Erase the woman, & you erase the full image of God.
We made it all up. All of it. Money, bills, capitalism, war, laws, the 5-day workweek, 3 meals a day, school, traditions, housing costs, food insecurity. Almost everything we say is “just the way it’s done” is something humans created, and it is important to remember that.
Gunpowder used to be for entertainment, then it was used to kill.
Drones used to be for entertainment, then they were used to kill.
AI is used for entertainment.
Want to learn what colonizers have done to the colonized? This book teaches you the many ways Black folks have been experimented on and degraded. There is a reason Black folks don't trust medical institutions....
Every freedom you have as a woman was earned through the sacrifice of women who came before you. You didn’t inherit these rights by luck. Someone marched, protested, and paid a price for them.
Men romanticize “traditional values” because back then many women couldn’t leave. No bank account. No property rights. No independent income. Divorce carried shame. Marital rape wasn’t even recognized. Abuse was hidden under “keep your family together.”
So when some of these men say they “miss traditional women,” what they often miss is a system where women had fewer choices,less protection and more pressure to endure suffering quietly.
I recently heard someone say "men want power so they can have power over others and women want power so no one can have power over them" and I haven't stopped thinking about it
The book examines how colonial languages and education systems shape cultural identity, arguing that reclaiming African languages is central to intellectual and political liberation.
Key facts
Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Published: 1986
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Language: English
Genre: Literary and cultural criticism.