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MAWU

Metal and Allied Workers Union

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MawuLisa and Mawu Sebou Lisa are synonymous terms for the West African Mother-Father Deity created by Great Mother Nana Buruku to give the Earth its form, rotation, and revolution, and to provide human beings with knowledge of their destiny through the Book of Fa. The mother-daughter Aje relationship in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Washington, Teresa N. / African American Review The poems mediate between the vulnerabilities and strengths that have arisen from the condition of being a child and a woman in exile, many of them, including the recognition of the goddess Mawu as a force of power and inspiration, inspired by conversations with and the strength of my mother. Fashioning a self in the contemporary world: notes toward a personal ... by Busia, Abena P.A. / African Arts She further notes MawuLisa is "[s]ometimes called the first inseparable twins of the Creator of the Universe," while in other versions her hermaphrodism (and her very name) are separated out into distinct entities, with Mawu regarded as a feminine creator and Lisa identified as either her first-born son or her twin brother (The Black Unicorn 120). Becoming Afrekete: the trickster in the work of Audre Lorde by Provost, Kara / MELUS More results

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MawuLisa and Mawu Sebou Lisa are synonymous terms for the West African Mother-Father Deity created by Great Mother Nana Buruku to give the Earth its form, rotation, and revolution, and to provide human beings with knowledge of their destiny through the Book of Fa.

The mother-daughter Aje relationship in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Washington, Teresa N. / African American Review

The poems mediate between the vulnerabilities and strengths that have arisen from the condition of being a child and a woman in exile, many of them, including the recognition of the goddess Mawu as a force of power and inspiration, inspired by conversations with and the strength of my mother.

Fashioning a self in the contemporary world: notes toward a personal ... by Busia, Abena P.A. / African Arts

She further notes MawuLisa is "[s]ometimes called the first inseparable twins of the Creator of the Universe," while in other versions her hermaphrodism (and her very name) are separated out into distinct entities, with Mawu regarded as a feminine creator and Lisa identified as either her first-born son or her twin brother (The Black Unicorn 120).

Becoming Afrekete: the trickster in the work of Audre Lorde by Provost, Kara / MELUS

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