Ten-Plus African American Companies to Support This Holiday Season

                                                     Photo courtesy of CBS Local-Atlanta
This Holiday 2017 season, we want to celebrate 10+ African American Companies and endorse thousands (maybe even hundreds of thousands) of dollars to their bottom-line. Support of African American Companies is the cornerstone of our economic development policy and is the first step in the African American revitalization of community. The ability to provide jobs to the African American community and to support African American communities around the United States, is essential to the future and a vital component of the American Dream. And remember this important fact, if you are going to buy African, make sure the seller is African or African American, so that the benefit is felt within our community.

Our recommendations have passed the first line of research, but in this day and age, it is important to be both mindful and careful shopping online. The following websites are not affiliated with this blog, and any purchases or discrepancies must be handled directly with the featured company. With that said, support your Black businesses!

Beauty & Body Care
Loc Inspirations
This beautiful Sister's company is the one stop shop for all your beauty and body care needs. You will not be disappointed and book her for a class to teach your group!

Naturally Yours Hair and Skin Care
Another beautiful Sister bringing quality products to the market!

The Honey Pot
A Place for Feminine Products, all plant based, for that special time of the month!

Polish and Company
Nail polish without the chemicals! Treat yourself and heal yourself at the same time!

Beauty Bakerie
No, not an Ice Cream Shop or a Bakery. But this company's Dessert inspired cosmetics are the business! Powder your face with many custom Nubian tones like Glaze So Icy, and share your beautiful Black tone with the world to adore!

Foxie Bombs
This girl uses all her products and we all can use a good bath soak... Check her out and enter her world.

Laws of Nature Cosmetics
Beautiful Kemetic Kush and Nubian tones for all your Sistas and made with great ingredients including love you can trust. Check out Jasmine and support!

Bekura
Salt scrubs, Body Butters, and remedies... A piece of heaven just came down and treated your skin like the Deity you are...

Oyin Handmade
Looking for quality soaps, butters, and the occassional hair products, check this company out!

Beija Flor Naturals (Concept Forty Seven)
This Sistah has an awesome store front with quality products that will keep you coming back!


Fashion
1. Nakimuli
America's Funky Sweetheart... And if you don't know, now you know!

2. Ashro
From traditional African styles to church, this is a place you will come to love!

3. Sean John
The classic style of P. Diddy, Puff Daddy Combs, is time tested and mother approved!

4. Rocawear
Made for everyone in the family and still fresh from day one!

4. Africa Fashion House
Hands down the most underrated designer in African fashion. See for yourself and convert your money for a shirt. And buy three!

5. African Imports USA
Find Fraternity & Sorority wear here, as well as Dashikis and church supplies.

6. Yatsa Fashions
An eclectic array of African fashion including dresses, shirts, and bags. You will not be disappointed at all! Shoutout to Yatsa!

7. Dupsie's
Look and find something special for someone you love!

8. Dashiki Pride 
An awesome collection of African fabrics and prints.

9. Juan Jayzz Designs
Great style, a bit pricy but well worth the personal touch. Don't sleep on this company!

10. Duro Olowu
Do not go broke trying to keep up with the Jones on this site. Hands down the most expensive. But when Michelle Obama wears his brand, this Nigerian Designer is saying something, or rather making something...

Food
The sheer number of Black owned restaurants, distributors, grocers, and farms is not to be taken for granted. Check some of these food giants out!

1. The Carolina Kitchen (DC Area)
2. Patti Labelle's Good Life (Nationwide)
3. First World Imports (Nationwide)
4. Everett & Jones (The Bay Area)
5. Cake In the City (Central Florida)
6. Sweet Home Cafe (Washington D.C.)
7. Sweet Fingers (Oakland, CA)
8. JKUB Distribution (Worldwide)
9. Scott Family Farms (Black Owned Organic Farm)
10. Grocery Outlet (Compton, California)


Musical Instruments
1. Africa Imports
Purchase that Djembe drum you've always wanted!

2. Motherland Music
The instruments and the classes you need. This is the one!

3. African Musical Instrument
This foreign site may help you find the quality you need.

Must Have Fashions
Women
1. Li Li' Gal Sheath Dress

Literature & Education
1. Papa Lemon Book
2. ABC Flash Me Cards
3. Anansi and The Pot of Beans (This is not a Black site, but features black authors)
4. Meltrek (An African American History Cartoon!)

African American Bookstores
1. African Bookstore
Find your favorite book and support African American bookstores across the country!
2. Mahogany Books
Another Black online bookstore featuring many contemporary authors.

Toys
1. Ethnic Babies
An outfit for the baby and a matching doll. Sweet as can be!
2. ToyRus
Its a Black doll blitz! Cheap and weird for this company, so as a last choice, get in and out quick for they disappear!

Art
1. Art of Maisha
The gift of art is both a lifestyle and painting for this beautiful Sistah. When you see what you like, get yours before it's gone. Her paintings are the business!

2. Its A Black Thing
This site has everything from calendars, Christmas Cards, to Artwork & Jackets

3. The Black Art Depot
Hands down my new favorite art site! I'm sure you'll find the exact picture, poster, or stationary you want.

4. Sahel Pride
Looking for that African Mask for the wall?

5. Artyfactory
Another African Mask Site...

6. African Sculptures
Find a true seller from this ebay link

The African Series: Upcoming Articles this Month

                                           The African Renaissance; Dakar Senegal

The African Series presents five articles concerning the social, political, intellectual, economic, and health of Africans on the continent and in diaspora. Until, the tribes of the Motherland, again reassert themselves, we will continue to suffer worldwide under a Global Racial Capitalist Patriarchy Military Supremacy Complex, welded by European Conglomerates and their Governments, Asian Investor Opportunists, State-less Religious Militia Organizations, Foreign Governments & their Military Alliances, International Bank Cartels, and the Christian/Muslim hypocrisies. The 21st Century will mark the return of the African as the most populous people on Earth. By 2050, the continent of Africa will boost more people than China and India. Thus, we must make the proper plans to neutralize and destroy any organization set against the return of Kemet (Black Land). We must overthrow the religious monopoly of Christianity and Islam, which has succeeded in both dividing and conquering the tribes and minds of the people. We must reorganize our military supremacy of our territory. And we must industrialize the continent with technology that enhances nature and reverses the tide of pollution, spawn by foreign European technology, destroying our lands for the future generations. This is a call to return to your tribes for all in diaspora and on the continent.

Featured Articles:
1. Africa America: 525 Years of Enslavement; 52 Years Post Civil Rights and the Lessons Learned...
2. The Afro American Census 2018-2019: A Detailed Report on the African People in Diaspora in North & South America.
3. The 21st Century: The Age of Revolution & The Departure of Foreign Colonialism from Africa. 
4. Ten African & African American Owned Companies For Holiday Shopping.
5. The Black Cartoons: Cartoons For Black Children and Black Minds 

West Oakland Imports
WestOaklandImports@gmail.com
Mr. Cowan Amaye-Obu (Owner/Writer)
CFAmayeobu@gmail.com
Mr. Peter Commons (Writer/Editor)
PeterLCommons@gmail.com

Africa America: 525 Years of Enslavement, 52 Years Post-Civil Rights, and Lessons Learned...

                                                   

The Middle Passage courtesy of Aoxoa 

There is much to be said of the tribal African experience for the past 525 years. The horror, trauma, shame, and the inhumane godless injustice has permeated the souls of 15 Generations of our people. The lessons learned are fit to begin the writing of another Holy Book, detailing our misfortune, travesty, and survival, in the face of a Godless People, declaring their God, and their debauchery in the anguish and blood of our children. Such a sacrifice cannot be forgotten. The latest lesson, Fifty-two years, after the mass Black American revolutions, later coined, The Civil Rights Movement, Black Americans are still struggling to gain equitable opportunity and justice in the United States. The same circumstances can be shared with all the tribes of the African continent, where the claws of European Neo-Colonialism has dug deep and lasting trenches, into the psyche, souls and bodies of the original people of the Earth.

What can be said has already been documented? Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, is the tip of a massive iceberg of the continued undeclared warfare and mass incarceration of African bodies to a Global Racial Capitalist Patriarchy Military machine. There are other places of discovery of this global complex, Carter G. Woodson wrote, The Miseducation of the Negro (1933), to sound the alarms about the state of our education early in the 20th Century. The record of books and discoveries shining light is now casting a shadow upon a real beast, hidden behind human governments and multinational corporations, which seeming invincible, must be confronted and killed for our true liberation and spiritual intellectual revival. A recent light, given little attention, written by Harriett Washington in, Medical Apartheid (2007), details our biggest horrors and fears of purposeful and planned medical experimentation on African bodies from slavery to the present day. We are the victims and survivors of a failed genocide, the innocent tribes of the Motherland.

                                             The Middle Passage courtesy of Aoxoa

                                           Muslim Slave Trade courtesy of Proofschool.Org
A river of tears laments the past and present circumstances of the people of Africa. We are guilty of sleeping with the enemy, baring their toil and children, but we cannot forget who our enemies are. While the European transported over 25 million tribal people from their Homelands across the ocean, the Arab Muslims were selling over 34 million of our fellow brothers and sisters into enslavement in Europe and Asia. The lessons to be learnt cannot be abandoned, and the new evidence against what has captured us, cannot be discarded as conspiracy. We are still alive today, because of the spirits of the Ancestors within us, who have lived for thousands of years, are again sent to us in our children. They give us hope and we must not forget to teach them the tribal culture to survive the onslaught. (To answer the call, Menes of 3100 BCE, after uniting all the tribes of Abyssinia and Punt, fought to repel all the thieves, murderers, rapists, slavers, foreign priests, soldiers, and machinists invaders of the land. After he had succeeded, the nation united by the tribes was called Kemet (Egypt), the Land of the Blacks. Today, we make another such call.) These lessons, teach them to your children and never forget, our cult, our culture, what we have done and will do as Ethiopian people. Ashe 

-Cowan Amaye-Obu
CFAmayeobu@gmail.com

This featured video is an essential discussion for both the African who has forgotten both in diaspora and on the continent, as well as those who has been awaken to consciousness.