KANKYE (kahn-chay’) is a term from the Akan (ah-kahn') people of Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa). It is comprised of the two words KA (KAN) meaning 'to speak, utter' and AKYE meaning 'to come forth, as in the coming forth of the Sun'. As a term with ritual implications Kankye means 'to utter incantations to make the Spirits of the Deities and Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors come forth’. 

When the Sun emerges at daybreak the great power which was unseen in the ‘underworld’ manifests in the world of the seen. The energy of the Sun illuminates the landscape and also energizes, vitalizes and empowers us. When the Spirits of the Deities and our Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors are invoked and evoked ritually, they come forth to illuminate our path, shine light in the darkness of ignorance and they also empower us through spirit-possession and spirit-communication.
 

The term Kankye in Akan is derived from our Ancestral language of ancient Khanit and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt). The medutu (hieroglyphs) shown are the symbols spelling out the terms ka and kye meaning 'to utter incantations to bring the spirits forward' – the exact same meanings preserved in the Akan language.

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Yet, when Akan people were forced into North America during the Mmusuo Kese (Great Perversity/Enslavement era) we continued to speak our Ancestral language. We thus continue to use the term Kankye (kahn-chay’) which would come to be pronounced Conjeh and later Conjure. 

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The Akan term Ndu (oohn-dooh’) means ‘medicine’ from 'roots, trees, plant life' and also to become ‘heavy’ with the spirits through spirit-possession and spirit-communication. This term can also be found in the ancient medutu (hieroglyphs)  with the exact same meaning. The term Ndu (oohn-dooh') came to be pronounced HOODOO in North America by our Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors who were brought here.

Ndu and Kankye as descriptions of Akan Ancestral Religion in North America are pronounced by us as Hoodoo and Conjure. From ancient Khanit and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt) through West Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) to North America, from Kankye to Conjeh (Conjure), we have carried on an unbroken lineage of authentic Ancestral Religious culture. This culture is the foundation of our individual, communal and political identity as Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African-Black) people. This is true of all other Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African-Black) ethnic groups who were forced into North America as well who preserved their Ancestral Religious traditions.

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Mojo and Jack Ball  in Hoodoo - Derived from Mogya and Gyapade in Akan

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KANKYE - Conjure Film Festival is unique as we highlight films which embrace our Ancestral Religious legacy in North America. A key component of the enslavement process was the attempt to make our people reject our authentic Ancestral Religious practices which are tens of thousands of years old and embrace the recent pseudo-religions and their fictional characters who never actually existed including the fictional characters: jesus/yeshua, yahweh, allah, muhammad, buddha, brahmin, etc.

A study of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) trustory, culture, language and cosmology proves in detail how these fictional characters and the related pseudo-religions of christianity, islam, judaism, buddhism, hinduism and others were manufactured by the whites and their offspring for the sole purpose of enslaving us Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans-Black People) mentally. We have exposed this fraud and freed ourselves from these pseudo-religious characters and practices. This includes the pseudo-holy books (bible, quran, torah, vedas, dhammapadas, kabbalah, etc.) which have been proven to be fragmented plagiarisms from the ancient writings our Ancestresses and Ancestors in ancient Khanit and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt).​  

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Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African-Black) people forced into North America during the Mmusuo Kese (Great Perversity/Enslavement era) maintained our Ancestral Religious practices and our spiri-genetic identity. We have shown in our work AKYISAN - Ancestral Religious Reversion that Hoodoo is Akan Ancestral Religion in North America, Juju is Yoruba Ancestral Religion in North America, Wanga is Ovambo Ancestral Religion in North America, Voodoo is Ewe and Fon Ancestral Religion in North America, Ngengang is Fang Ancestral Religion in North America, Gris Gris is Mende Ancestral Religion in North America and more. Thus when over three centuries ago one of our Ancestresses or Ancestors stated ‘I am a Hoodoo man or Hoodoo woman’ it was a statement of identity. One was saying ‘I am an Akan man or Akan woman’. If one said ‘I am a Juju man or Juju woman’, he or she was saying ‘I am a Yoruba man or Yoruba woman’. If one said I am a ‘Voodoo man or Voodoo woman’, he or she was saying ‘I am an Ewe man or Ewe woman’, etc. This firm grounding in our identity was true when we first arrived in this hemisphere and continues to this day for those who are aware, for our Ancestral Religions are transmitted via our spiri-genetic blood-circles. Moreover, no non-Afurakani/non-Afuraitkaitnit (non-African/non-Black) individual is part of nor is spiritually capable of participating in our Ancestrally-inherited Religion. All who claim to do so are fraudulent.

Our Ancestral Religious expressions in North America are not a mixture of pseudo-'native'-americanism nor christian, islamic, judaic, hindu, buddhist or any form of european pseudo-occultism. Any such interpolations are fraudulent.

Our Ancestrally-inherited practices of Hoodoo, Juju, Voodoo, Ngengang, Wanga, Gris Gris, Gola (Gullah), Kisi (Geechee) and all others are purely and exclusively Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) born of and sustained within our matriclans and patriclans for thousands of years to this very moment.

Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) people in North America are not dependent on traveling to Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa), the Caribbean or South America for our Ancestral Religious traditions. We have maintained our Ancestral Religions – fully intact – in North America, within our spiri-genetic blood-circles for over three centuries. This includes our priestesshoods and priesthoods. 

Critically, it was our Ancestral Religious practices which guided us and empowered us to wage war incessantly against the whites and their offspring through multiple wars of rebellion ultimately forcing the end of enslavement in North America. This is our Ancestral Religious legacy and the foundation upon which we build today.

Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion, no matter what form it takes in Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) or the western hemisphere, is defined in essence as the Ritual incorporation of Divine Law and the Ritual restoration of Divine Balance. Our culture, our way of life, directs us to align every thought, intention and action with Divine Order every moment of everyday. When we make legitimate mistakes or seek knowledge to meet this cultural mandate we engage the ritual process to incorporate Divine Law and restore Divine Balance. We align with the Great Mother and Great Father Supreme Being through the agency of the Deities and our Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors. The Ritual incorporation of Divine Law and the Ritual restoration of Divine Balance is the domain of Kankye – Conjure.

KANKYE – Conjure Film Festival is an institutional instrument for the education, empowerment and elevation of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African-Black) people in North America and wherever we exist in the world. When we ground ourselves in Divine Order born of our Ancestrally-inherited culture we position ourselves to develop, build and defend ourselves and our Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Nation meeting and overcoming all obstacles: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, economic and political. Nationbuliding/Restoration rooted in our Ancestral Religious values has returned.

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AFURAKA/AFURAITKAIT - The Origin of the term 'Africa'

www.odwirafo.com/AFURAKA-AFURAITKAIT_The_Origin_of_the_Term_Africa.pdf

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KANKYE - Akan Origin of of the term 'Conjure' as Hoodoo 

Hoodoo Mayn: Hoodoo Nation Festival Journal 13017

https://odwirafo.com/Hoodoo_Mayn_Nhoma_13017.pdf

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Akan Origin of the Term 'Hoodoo'

Hoodoo People: Akan Custodians of Hoodoo from Ancient Hoodoo/Udunu Land (Khanit/Nubia)

www.odwirafo.com/Utu_Hoodoo_Akan.pdf

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AKYISAN - Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religions Reversion Conference

www.odwirafo.com/Akyisan.html 

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See our website for related books and articles: www.odwirafo.com/Hoodoo.html

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Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan

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