Mzee Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed.
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| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | University Instructor; Diviner, Numerologist, Card Reader, Spiritual Counselor |
| Location | New England, United States |
| Introduction | Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a professor of cultural media studies, a facilitator of cultural media literacy and is fully engaged in research in areas of nature, media, indigenous culture and spirituality and the effects of modernity on the indigenous soul. He is trained in Indigenous African Spiritual Technologies in the Dagara tradition by Malidoma Some’ and Alwyn Thomas that includes ritual, numerology and divination. Ukumbwa completed the Dagara Elder Initiation in July of 2009. Ukumbwa is a member of East Coast Village in Cherry Plain, NY and a growing number of spiritual individuals and communities that are brave enough to know that the sustenance of human life on this earth is based upon a different and traditional, indigenous relationship with Nature and Spirit. Ukumbwa is committed to engaging people and communities everywhere in a dialogue, a multilogue that informs, inspires, challenges and motivates us toward progressive and healing and balanced human behaviors with regard to each other and the natural world around us. |
| Interests | Community, healing, Spirit, Nature, Power, spirituality, ritual, youth initiation and education, cultural media literacy, cultural media studies and research, gender studies, water issues, environmental justice |
| Favorite movies | PUMZI, Blue Gold, FLOW, Thirst, Sankofa, When The Levees Broke, In The Light of Reverence, films from the Earth Cinema Circle, Story of Stuff, The 11th Hour, Strange Days on Planet Earth, The Return, The Future of Food, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Supersize Me, Food, Inc., Rosewood,... |
| Favorite music | Indigenous music, blues, jazz, heavy metal...Fela Kuti, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, Samba Lolo, Wildest Dreams, Angelique Kidjo, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Tha Truth/Jay Strong, Corporate Avenger, Pagan's Mind, Youssou N'dour |
| Favorite books | Healing Wisdom of Africa (Malidoma Some'), Of Water and the Spirit (Some'), God Is Red (Vine Deloria, Jr.), In the Absence of the Sacred (Jerry Mander), Recovering the Sacred (Winona LaDuke), Custer Died for Your Sins (Deloria), Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (Mander), Secrets of the Talking Jaguar (Martin Prechtel), The Toe Bone and the Tooth (Martin Prechtel), 1491, They Came Before Columbus (Ivan Van Sertima), Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Richard Bach),... |