A Pan African Movement, African Diaspora: ‘Ascendants of Africans Stolen from Africa’ the foundation of the Fihankra Tribe/Nation

Black/African Diaspora, ‘Out-of-Africa’ migrants, the first Africans who volunteered to migrate --from the first migrating to, and often times through Europe—the Grimaldi and other African ethnic groups, to the Africans who settled the lands of what is known today as the Americas (i.e., Olmecs, Mayans, Aztecs, Incas), the aboriginals referred to today as Native Americans --to the Asians, from the Zia and Shang Dynasties to the Australian Aborigines; and

--African Diaspora contemporary history, those who left Africa searching for employment and greener pastures. Africans suffering the European colonialists and imperialists’ underdevelopment of Africa and the overthrow and murder of such persons as Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Dedan Kimathia, Sylvanus Olympio and many other continental African revolutionaries.

African Holocaust, the Maafa, Chattel Slavery-- Africans who were forced to migrate into the diaspora—Africans who were traded, abused and stolen away from Africa via certain wicked chieftaincies and white supremacist slave traders--for over 400 years from the first Portugese that stole Africans in 1440s; including Africans enslaved in what is known today as Mexico in 1502, and African enslaved uprising in 1526 in what is known as South Carolina today.

--Africans chattel enslaved via the western hemisphere (European Slave Trade, aka Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade), and the eastern hemisphere (Indian Ocean Slave Trade a.k.a Arab Slave Trade); in addition to Africans enslaved via ‘Silent Enslavement’, and ‘Blackbirding’.

--Let us not forget-- Chattel Slavery is the worst form of slavery in world history built on brutal white supremacy (racism). And Pan Africanism was/is a balm, a means for Africans to secure and heal, especially from chattel enslavement and colonialism, and to find ways to further unite, redevelop and nation-build.

A Pan African movement, a brief introduction to: FIHANKRA STOOL AND SKIN.

Please note and understand-- ‘Fihankra’ meaning— “Symbolizes security and safety”; and via others-- transliteration: “you did not say goodbye when you left home”.

From the Sankofa Press Blog, Mwalimu W. Kabaila

INTRODUCTION TO THE FIHANKRA TRIBE: THE NEWEST AFRICAN TRIBE REPRESENTING 300M DIASPORANS

QUOTE:
“Awo Yaa Asantewaa writes:

A citizen of the FIHANKRA Stool and Skin is any person who is a descendant of an African born in the Diaspora as a direct result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

How did FIHANKRA Develop?
On December 9, 1994, one of the most historically significant events of this millennium took place in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. The event was the inaugural purification of a specially carved wooden stool and the specially prepared skin of an animal. Together these two sacred articles were customarily given the name "FIHANKRA", which literally translated means "when leaving home good-byes could not be said".

In the traditions of Africa, both the Stool and Skin are sacred symbols of divine chieftaincy authority in which, it is believed resides the very spirit and soul of its people. Chiefs of Southern Ghana sit upon stools, while Chiefs of Northern Ghana sit upon skins. In their symbolic form the Stool and Skin can be compared to the traditional throne of other peoples and nations. Thus, in keeping with tradition, the Purification of FIHANKRA restores to Africans born in the Diaspora two sacred symbols as one, thereby reaffirming the cultural and spiritual ties that had been denied them for centuries.

The purification of FIHANKRA evolved from a coalition of persons under the leadership of his Majesty Odeneho Oduro Numapau II, then President of the Ghana National House of Chiefs.

The importance of this traditional purification ceremony lay in the following:

* It was the first time that African chiefs had gathered especially to perform traditional rituals to atone for the misdeeds of ancestral traditional rulers who helped to sustain the trans-Atlantic slave trade initiated by European powers in the 15th century.

* It was an act of restoring customary authority to the Africans of the Diaspora, presumed to have been lost as a result of the slave trade.

It also provided for the appointment of a Diaspora born custodian, and the subsequent establishment of a Traditional Council and an International Council of Elders to administer the affairs of FIHANKRA on behalf of the descendants of Diasporans...”.

A history of Pan Africanism, and Repatriation (meaning “to return to the place of origin”, that is the continent of Africa), which began as early as the end of the American Revolutionary war (1775-1783)-- Post war era, many enslaved Africans were given freedom and were able to return to the “Motherland” Africa.

Including the 1920s Honorable Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa Movement”, another Repatriation effort to Liberia. Therefore, Repatriation is really nothing new, it’s generational, it’s a legacy.

In the 21^st Century, a part of the Pan African Movement, devised for Ascendants of Africans who were stolen for Africa (African Diaspora, AU Sixth Region of Africa), by a group of African Diasporans, a reclaiming, redefining, defining, developing and naming, in this case a ethnic group-- The Fihankra Nation/Tribe.

References:
Introduction to the Fihankra Tribe: The Newest African Tribe Representing 300M Diasporans

SANKOFA PRESS BLOG: INTRODUCTION TO THE FIHANKRA TRIBE: THE NEWEST AFRICAN TRIBE REPRESENTING 300M DIASPORANS

Retrieved June 27, 2026, from https://sankofapress.blogspot.com/2012/06/introduction-to-fihankra-tribe-newest.html

For more information as it pertain to the Fihankra Tribe/Nation, email Curtis: [email protected]

Fihankra - Adinkra Alphabet
Retrieved June 27, 2026, from https://www.adinkraalphabet.com/tag/finhankra

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Dr. K. Makeda Muhammad is a ‘Repatriate’/returnee to Africa via Ghana in 2011. Dr. Makeda’s field of study is Black Studies; she is an author; independent researcher; historian; educator; columnist, Modern Ghana Media; recipient of Ghana’s Education Community (EDUCOM) Award, MACPRI Helping Hands Community Award, Abibitumi & Marcus Garvey Foundation Citation. Dr. Makeda is a Pan Africanist, Africana WoManist (C. Hudson-Weems), community volunteer, and social media activist.