My Life in America After Africa

Being back home in America has been quite an adjustment. It took a while to eat meat again and get a good nights rest, but I am learning to accept and appreciate my new normal. I now eat mainly a vegetable based diet, responsibly choose my words, and watch less than 3 hours of TV a month. Below are some of the other moments since my return to the U.S. on July 7th 2010.

I love how my Tikar hat matches my Mama's shirt and my earrings.
The hat is a gift from Professor Martin Elouga of The University of Cameroon.

My Eyewitness Account of surgery in the Rainforest

I rework my clothes like those I saw my Tikar people wear in Cameroon.

I wear my Afro Bling proudly.

I rock my Cameroon Gear

I've climbed to new heights.

I consistently dream of Cameroon

I wear one of my Tikar naming ceremony dress often.

I visit the Stagville Plantation in Durham, NC several times a month.
http://www.stagville.org/ 

When I visit the plantation in Durham, NC  I feel at home as I did in Cameroon in my Tikar village.
The structures built in NC are the same as they are in N'Ditam.
http://www.stagville.org/

When at the Stagville Plantation I am able to tap into my ancestors energy that is still there.
It was the largest plantation in NC with 900 enslaved people.
http://www.stagville.org/

Rocking my Tikar shirt with the Cameroon Soccer team uniform.

I am Princess Bekang (Translated  as Boomerang)

Feels Good! Yeah!

My poetry from the bush that I turned into artwork.

Step of turning the poem into a painting 

TAH DAH! Step of turning the poem into a painting

Processing the not so wonderful moments in Cameroon, Africa through my artwork.

My naming ceremony is on my mind

I can still feel the warm baby on my back that I later learned had a high fever.

Using my talent for natural hairdressing for myself and wearing my tradition dress to work.

I've been on a boat in Lake Chaplain in Vermont

I've been ordained as a Priestess AKA Minister.

I've performed my one-woman show Mama Juggs in a Warren ,Vermont Barn.

Within the trees my ancestors touched on the Plantation.

Visiting the Slave master, his son and wife's graves.

I've performed my one-woman show Mama Juggs in a Warren ,Vermont Barn.