{"id":4089,"date":"2010-07-22T04:13:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T08:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2010-07-23T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:04:00","slug":"identifying-with-ancestral-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4089","title":{"rendered":"Identifying with Ancestral Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emancipation Celebration\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/emancipation2005.jpg\" title=\"Emancipation Celebration\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emancipation Celebration<\/figcaption><\/figure><i>July 22, 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/commentary\/columnist\/2010\/07\/22\/identifying-ancestral-home\">guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Emancipation celebrations this year, I suppose, will have added significance for those of the African diaspora who consider that their spiritual navel strings are buried on the continent of Africa, especially as the World Cup venture was a spectacular international success. Incidentally, the football extravaganza was conceivably Mandela\u2019s parting gift to Africa as well as Africa\u2019s final tribute to him.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOne expects that they would be holding up their calabashes toasting their hereditary links, especially those who are aware of the old African folklore tale that, \u201chumanity first set foot on the African continent\u201d or, as suggested by anthropologists, \u201chomo Sapiens\u201d (that\u2019s us) first appeared on African soil.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, We\u2019ve been told that \u201cThey\u2014Africans\u2014came to the so-called New World before Columbus.\u201d However, the bulk of African souls arrived in less auspicious circumstances and, as far as I know, were not welcome to their \u201cnew homes\u201d or, more precisely, \u201cholding bays\u201d with enthusiastic cheers and the blare of trumpets.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/commentary\/columnist\/2010\/07\/22\/identifying-ancestral-home\" title=\"Identifying with ancestral home\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 22, 2010 &#8211; guardian.co.tt Emancipation celebrations this year, I suppose, will have added significance for those of the African diaspora who consider that their spiritual navel strings are buried on the continent of Africa, especially as the World Cup venture was a spectacular international success. Incidentally, the football extravaganza was conceivably Mandela\u2019s parting gift &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Identifying with Ancestral Home<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,11,154,12],"tags":[1032,104,158],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-culture","category-race-and-identity","category-religion","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-emancipation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}