WHO
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Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan - Founder and Director of KANKYE - Conjure Film Festival
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Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan of Aakhuamuman Amaruka Atifi Mu, the Akwamu Nation in North America, is an Odumafo, traditional diviner of Hoodoo passed down through the blood-circles of his Aakhuamu (Akwamu) Ancestresses and Ancestors for centuries in Mississippi, Alabama and Chicago.
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Odwirafo is the author of 31 books to date with groundbreaking research examining critical aspects of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion, Culture, Trustory, Holistic Health and Nationbuilding/Restoration.
Odwirafo is also the founder of the annual AKYISAN - Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religious Reversion Conference. The Ancestral Religious traditions preserved in the blood-circles of African-Americans for over 300 years during the Mmuso Kese (Great Perversity/Enslavement era) are examined in our conference including: Hoodoo (Akan), Juju (Yoruba), Voodoo (Ewe, Fon), Ngengang (Fang), Wanga (Ovambo, Gullah) and more.
AMARUKAFO ADEBISA: African-American Ancestral Divination is the first film project by Odwirafo.
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KANKYE - Conjure FIlm Festival as an institutional effort builds upon the ongoing work of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African-Black) cultural restoration..
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AKRADINBOSOM: Akan Abosom (Deities) of the Okra/Okraa (Soul) and the 7-Day Week
From Ancient Khanit (Nubia) to Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) in America
Volumes 1 – 6
Pre-Order - Release Date, Spring 13026 (2026)
Our publication of the six volume set, AKRADINBOSOM: Akan Abosom (Deities) of the Okra/Okraa and the 7-Day week – From Ancient Khanit (Nubia) to Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) in America is the first of its kind. The Akradinbosom are a particular grouping of Abosom, the Akan term for Deities – the Divine Spirit-Forces in Creation. The Akradinbosom, the major Divine Powers Who animate the solar, lunar and planetary bodies which govern the seven-day week have never been addressed in a publication regarding their identity, the nature of their functioning in Creation and their relationship to the Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) individual in Akan culture.
The Akradinbosom are the major Abosom (Deities) who govern all natural cycles in Creation and thus all natural cycles upon Asaase (Earth). We examine the direct relationship that these Abosom (Deities) have with Akan people based on the unique manner in which we have interfaced with them over the millennia. We elucidate how the Akradinbosom are assigned to the Okra/Okraa, the Soul, of each Akan individual pre-incarnation and are thereby directly tied to the Divine function, life-focus, purpose or ‘destiny’ the nkra/nkrabea of every Akan male and female.
The super-structure of the nnawotwe, the seven-day week and the Abosom that govern it also governs every aspect of Akan life. This is true of Akan people in the regions of contemporary Ghana and Ivory Coast, West Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) as well as those Akan people who were forced to migrate to the western hemisphere during the Mmusuo Kese, the Great Perversity/Enslavement era. Those of us who reside in North, Central, South america and the Caribbean who are of direct, spiri-genetic Akan Ancestry, have always been directly impacted by the Akradinbosom, the Abosom (Deities) who continue to communicate with us, possess us, heal us, empower us and guide us throughout the course of our lives.
All eleven of these Abosom are examined in detail and the linguistic and cosmological links to ancient Khanit and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt) and various other Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) ethnic groups' expressions of the very same Deities are proven. We thereby establish the cultural continuity of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion on firm cosmological and linguistic grounds.
Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan
Author, Publisher, Documentary Filmmaker