My honor to open this occasion with a libation. This comes from the people of ghana, west africa. It is an ancient form of prayer. I will continue in the language of english. You will hear me say various words. What i am doing is offering up theks to the creator, to energy of the creator, and to our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This is a is maturing activity. So we would like for you to join i would like for you to join me in this. So when you hear me say this will, i would like you to respond. Beautiful. Dr. Adwoa tano [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] dr. Adwoa tano host ya. [speakingtano foreign language] to the oldie mighty Divine Energy of the greater, we call on you. Tubman,other, harriet we call participation from you. He daughter, we call you to come and drink. Daughter Harriet Tubman, masterful perception, we call you to come and drink. Harriet tubman, divine warrior woman, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of sovereignty, of truth, we call
The libation i will be performing comes from the okung people in ghana. It is an ancient prayer. Language,ak in the and then i will continue in the language of english. You will hear me say various words. What i am doing is offering up thanks to the creator to all of , the representatives of the creator and our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This a participatory activity. So, we would like for you to join, i would like for you to join with me in this. When you hear me say the word, ensah, i would like for you to respond yah. Ensah. Audience yah. Beautiful. [speaking in ghanian] yah. Yah. Yah. The Divine Energy of the creator, we call on you yah. To our beautiful queen mother, Harriet Tubman, we call on you. Yah. The daughter of a we call you we call on you. Yah. Masterful conductor, we call you. Yah. Divine warrior woman of righteousness, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of truth, we call you yah. The one who said i could have freed 1000 more if only they knew there were e
Figure, Harriet Tubman. Its a name we know, its a name we affiliate with the underground railroad, but we sort of forget after that she lived another 50 years, some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and date on that in a lecture thats sponsored by sa dechlio, so well thank them for that tonight. As you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill very soon and our speaker Catherine Clinton [ applause ] and our speaker Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her because im going to tell awe little bit about catherine and shes been in perpetual motion her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri, and sefd her undergraduate from Harvard University followed by a ph. D from prince ton, university. She specialized in American Histor
Words. And what i am doing is offering up thanks to the creator, to all the Representative Energy of the creator, and to our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This is a participatory activity. So, we would like for you to join i would like for you to join me in this. When you hear me say the word ensa, i would like for you to respond ya. Ensa . Ya. Beautiful, beautiful. [ call and response ] you are the Divine Energy of the creator, we call on you. Ensa. Ya. To our beautiful queen mother, nan a Harriet Tubman. We call for you ensa. Ya. Harriet tubman, the daughter of a farmer, we call you to come and drink ensa. Ya. Nan a Harriet Tubman, masterful conductor, we call you to come ensa. Ya. Nan a Harriet Tubman, divine warrior woman of righteousness, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of truth, we call you to come and drink ensa. Ya. The one who said i could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were enslaved. We call you to come and drink ensa. Ya. The one who never l
Figure, Harriet Tubman. Its a name we know, its a name we affiliate with the underground railroad, but we sort of forget after that she lived another 50 years, some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and date on that in a lecture thats sponsored by sa dechlio, so well thank them for that tonight. As you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill very soon and our speaker Catherine Clinton [ applause ] and our speaker Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her because im going to tell awe little bit about catherine and shes been in perpetual motion her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri, and sefd her undergraduate from Harvard University followed by a ph. D from prince ton, university. She specialized in American Histor