6 definitions by Bendera Ya Taifa
A phobic attitude toward people of Sub-Saharan African, or otherwise black origin, their culture or ideas. It is often associated with fear of domination or "racial" or cultural "pollution". Afrophobia is primarily a racial and, to a somewhat lesser extent, cultural phenomenon, lacking a strong religious dimension.
by Bendera Ya Taifa January 29, 2017
Melanin is a name for the aromatic biopolymer and organic semiconductor responsible for human eye and skin color. The same chemical is also found in the feathers of birds, the scales of fish, the fur of animals and the chitin of insects. Melanin has been found intact in fossils. Microorganisms also contain melanin.
Melanin is in the ink of cephalopods. Sepia is the Greek word for the black matter emitted by sepia officinalis, the common cuttlefish. Melanin extracted from that ink is currently worth over $350 a gram more than gold.
There are three melanins. Pheomelanin is red and yellow. Eumelanin is brown and black. In plants allomelanin is also brown and black. Though some refer to a "neuromelanin," it is actually eumelanin which performs a neurological function.
Melanogenesis, the name for the chemical metabolism that gives rise to melanin, is not a single universal process. Pheomelanin and eumelanin follow a similar pathway until the L-dopaquinone phase of their formation. At that stage adding L-cysteine will produce pheomelanin; the absence of L-cysteine results in eumelanin.
Skin cancer rates and deaths from melanoma are highest in people with the least amount of skin melanin. The opposite is true for people with the highest amount of skin melanin.
Like all polyacetylenes, melanin has high electrical conductivity. Melanin was first proven to be a semiconductor in 1973 when, by Dr. John Mcginness and Dr. Peter Proctor to manufacture a melanin bi-stable switch.
Melanin is in the ink of cephalopods. Sepia is the Greek word for the black matter emitted by sepia officinalis, the common cuttlefish. Melanin extracted from that ink is currently worth over $350 a gram more than gold.
There are three melanins. Pheomelanin is red and yellow. Eumelanin is brown and black. In plants allomelanin is also brown and black. Though some refer to a "neuromelanin," it is actually eumelanin which performs a neurological function.
Melanogenesis, the name for the chemical metabolism that gives rise to melanin, is not a single universal process. Pheomelanin and eumelanin follow a similar pathway until the L-dopaquinone phase of their formation. At that stage adding L-cysteine will produce pheomelanin; the absence of L-cysteine results in eumelanin.
Skin cancer rates and deaths from melanoma are highest in people with the least amount of skin melanin. The opposite is true for people with the highest amount of skin melanin.
Like all polyacetylenes, melanin has high electrical conductivity. Melanin was first proven to be a semiconductor in 1973 when, by Dr. John Mcginness and Dr. Peter Proctor to manufacture a melanin bi-stable switch.
I had no idea there was such a thing as fossil melanin.
You can't see or hear without melanin.
Melanin protects our DNA from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation.
You can't see or hear without melanin.
Melanin protects our DNA from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation.
by Bendera Ya Taifa January 7, 2017
Kiamsha is a swahili word. The root “amsha” is a synonym of: rouse, galvanize, move, rekindle, freshen, jog, call forth, excite, incite, rally, interest, evoke, bring around (revive), and inspirit. It’s prefix ki- means ”of a given kind.” The combination of the two means “that which awakens me.”
Believe it or not, before Kiamsha, there were people who actually referred to their mate as their "baby mama."
If it wasn't for Sankofa, Kiamsha might never have happened.
Although the Maafa has not totally dissipated, kiamsha has done a great deal to heal us of that bit of sickness.
If it wasn't for Sankofa, Kiamsha might never have happened.
Although the Maafa has not totally dissipated, kiamsha has done a great deal to heal us of that bit of sickness.
by Bendera Ya Taifa March 8, 2014
Maafa is a Kiswahili for term meaning "Great Disaster. It has come to be associated with the era of the European and Arab slave trade. The resulting effect on African people: over 100 million people lost their lives and their descendants have been systematically and continuously assaulted through institutionalized anti-Africanism.
Ubuntu is the opposite of Maafa and was the dominant paradigm in Africa leading up to it.
Ubuntu is the opposite of Maafa and was the dominant paradigm in Africa leading up to it.
Examples of the Maafa include Jim Crow segregation, lynching, apartheid, colonialism, neo-colonialism, lynching, forced sterilizations, slavery, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and Stockholm syndrome.
by Bendera Ya Taifa March 8, 2014
On August 13 The The Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World was signed in Madison Square Garden. 20,000 people were in attendance. It made Red, Black, and Green the colors of Africans at home and abroad.
by Bendera Ya Taifa April 24, 2021
Verb
1. To focus one’s thought or actions on life and living.
2. Complete and wholehearted devotion to life, career, ideal, etc.
3. A Rastafarian vocabulary term meaning “to bring to life.”
1. To focus one’s thought or actions on life and living.
2. Complete and wholehearted devotion to life, career, ideal, etc.
3. A Rastafarian vocabulary term meaning “to bring to life.”
by Bendera Ya Taifa April 1, 2010