Rootwork: Getting Down to the Root

Rootwork with:
Thandisizwe Chimurenga

New shows 3rd and 4th Thursdays
at 10AM PST; Tuesdays at 4pm PST

Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots, is a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.

Rootwork Local also airs on the 3rd and 4th Thursdays of the month on the Pacifica Network in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California (KPFK) where the priority is to amplify local voices, perspectives, concerns and movements.  

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The "Djôtô" (or Djoto) is the “sponsoring Ancestor” of a newborn child. It can also be called the reincarnation of a deceased ancestor. This belief is held primarily by the Fon people of Benin (formerly known as Dahomey) in West Afrika. 

#Sinners
#Hoodoo
#Fa
#Voudoun
#Dahomey
#NewAfrikanVodun

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Afrikan Spiritual Warfare: Ifa for Activists”:
https://www.youtube.com/live/pdiN6nFEkxs?si=1j7LrlZ44UOD9hVM

Sinners Juke Scene:
https://youtu.be/-h5fUA-DAdk?si=lYSiUafLHkMH8rtW

New Afrikan Vodun:
https://uniov.org/media

https://open.substack.com/pub/mambonoli/p/new-afrikan-vodun-to-the-future?r=1ls0yy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
 
Who is Baba Medahochi?
https://newafrikan77.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/baba-medahochi-kofi-zannu-a-life-history-new-afrikan-spirituality-spiritualist/

https://www.instagram.com/medahochifestival?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Oyotunji Village:
It’s Been Poetry - Film
https://youtu.be/23PP6Pr3OOo

Oyotunji Village: The Yoruba Movement in America by Carl M. Hunt
University Press of America, 1979

What is the Djôtô?
https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=djoto%20ewe%20fon&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5

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“Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. 

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2),  and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia 1:27:07

The "Djôtô" (or Djoto) is the “sponsoring Ancestor” of a newborn child. It can also be called the reincarnation of a deceased ancestor. This belief is held primarily by the Fon people of Benin (formerly known as Dahomey) in West Afrika.

#Sinners
#Hoodoo
#Fa
#Voudoun
#Dahomey
#NewAfrikanVodun

=

Afrikan Spiritual Warfare: Ifa for Activists”:
https://www.youtube.com/live/pdiN6nFEkxs?si=1j7LrlZ44UOD9hVM

Sinners Juke Scene:
https://youtu.be/-h5fUA-DAdk?si=lYSiUafLHkMH8rtW

New Afrikan Vodun:
https://uniov.org/media

https://open.substack.com/pub/mambonoli/p/new-afrikan-vodun-to-the-future?r=1ls0yy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Who is Baba Medahochi?
https://newafrikan77.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/baba-medahochi-kofi-zannu-a-life-history-new-afrikan-spirituality-spiritualist/

https://www.instagram.com/medahochifestival?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Oyotunji Village:
It’s Been Poetry - Film
https://youtu.be/23PP6Pr3OOo

Oyotunji Village: The Yoruba Movement in America by Carl M. Hunt
University Press of America, 1979

What is the Djôtô?
https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=djoto%20ewe%20fon&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5

=

Copyright Disclaimer:

“Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

=

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia

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Afrikan Spiritual Warfare: Sinners and the Djôtô in New Afrikan Vodun

01/26/26

The Nguzo Saba 365 website is a project of The Afrikan Restoration Project in their mission to make the Seven Principles a code of daily conduct in the Black community. “We believe that if Black people applied these principles everyday, we would become the best possible version of ourselves and fully able to create the world we want and deserve to live in.”

Guest: Shujaa Baker

Shujaa Baker is a Detroit native, a cultural historian, published author, and a design engineer with several decades experience supporting mechanical and electromechanical product and system design for many different projects.

Shujaa is co-founder and co-director of The Afrikan Restoration Project, an African history and culture-based organization with almost two decades experience hosting weekly cultural events in Long Beach and Pomona, CA – with periodic events in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.

Shujaa is also a small business owner with a product design and prototype manufacturing company called Virtual Design and Prototyping.
His publication credits include his new book - “Building on the Work of Our Elders and Ancestors,” and the children’s series – “STEM ‘n ‘Nem and the Seven Principles” where he explains and advances his work to promote the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles as a “Black job” or daily code of conduct in the Black community and beyond.

nguzosaba365.org

#nguzosaba #kwanzaa #selfdetermination

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“Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

= 

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. 

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2),  and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia 1:19:07

The Nguzo Saba 365 website is a project of The Afrikan Restoration Project in their mission to make the Seven Principles a code of daily conduct in the Black community. “We believe that if Black people applied these principles everyday, we would become the best possible version of ourselves and fully able to create the world we want and deserve to live in.”

Guest: Shujaa Baker

Shujaa Baker is a Detroit native, a cultural historian, published author, and a design engineer with several decades experience supporting mechanical and electromechanical product and system design for many different projects.

Shujaa is co-founder and co-director of The Afrikan Restoration Project, an African history and culture-based organization with almost two decades experience hosting weekly cultural events in Long Beach and Pomona, CA – with periodic events in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.

Shujaa is also a small business owner with a product design and prototype manufacturing company called Virtual Design and Prototyping.
His publication credits include his new book - “Building on the Work of Our Elders and Ancestors,” and the children’s series – “STEM ‘n ‘Nem and the Seven Principles” where he explains and advances his work to promote the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles as a “Black job” or daily code of conduct in the Black community and beyond.

nguzosaba365.org

#nguzosaba #kwanzaa #selfdetermination

=

“Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

=

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia

YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy5BNzdEQzY0REQzQTEyN0U3

The Nguzo Saba: Principles for Living, or Nah? 📱

12/23/25

The Nguzo Saba 365 website is a project of The Afrikan Restoration Project in their mission to make the Seven Principles a code of daily conduct in the Black community. “We believe that if Black people applied these principles everyday, we would become the best possible version of ourselves and fully able to create the world we want and deserve to live in.”

Guest: Shujaa Baker

Shujaa Baker is a Detroit native, a cultural historian, published author, and a design engineer with several decades experience supporting mechanical and electromechanical product and system design for many different projects.

Shujaa is co-founder and co-director of The Afrikan Restoration Project, an African history and culture-based organization with almost two decades experience hosting weekly cultural events in Long Beach and Pomona, CA – with periodic events in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.

Shujaa is also a small business owner with a product design and prototype manufacturing company called Virtual Design and Prototyping.
His publication credits include his new book - “Building on the Work of Our Elders and Ancestors,” and the children’s series – “STEM ‘n ‘Nem and the Seven Principles” where he explains and advances his work to promote the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles as a “Black job” or daily code of conduct in the Black community and beyond.

nguzosaba365.org

#nguzosaba #kwanzaa #selfdetermination

=

“Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

= 

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. 

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2),  and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia 1:19:09

The Nguzo Saba 365 website is a project of The Afrikan Restoration Project in their mission to make the Seven Principles a code of daily conduct in the Black community. “We believe that if Black people applied these principles everyday, we would become the best possible version of ourselves and fully able to create the world we want and deserve to live in.”

Guest: Shujaa Baker

Shujaa Baker is a Detroit native, a cultural historian, published author, and a design engineer with several decades experience supporting mechanical and electromechanical product and system design for many different projects.

Shujaa is co-founder and co-director of The Afrikan Restoration Project, an African history and culture-based organization with almost two decades experience hosting weekly cultural events in Long Beach and Pomona, CA – with periodic events in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.

Shujaa is also a small business owner with a product design and prototype manufacturing company called Virtual Design and Prototyping.
His publication credits include his new book - “Building on the Work of Our Elders and Ancestors,” and the children’s series – “STEM ‘n ‘Nem and the Seven Principles” where he explains and advances his work to promote the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles as a “Black job” or daily code of conduct in the Black community and beyond.

nguzosaba365.org

#nguzosaba #kwanzaa #selfdetermination

=

“Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”

=

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.

She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.

Website:
thandisizwe.net

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga

CashApp:
$rootwrk

Venmo:
@rootwrk

PATREON:   / blackpowermedia

YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy5EODgyNjY4MzA3QzY5RTkx

The Nguzo Saba: Principles for Living, or Nah?

12/23/25