Greetings,
As Rastafari women, we should celebrate
Empress Menen every day. Recent revelations as to to the correct
date of her birth may be a timely reminder of our need to remember her
throughout the year and not just on one day, although it is good to make
the day for her earthlife the ites of our celebrations.
The celebration of Empress Menen's
earthday is the only Rastafari celebration that we have that celebrates
woman, therefore we must be very careful how we handle the change of
date. We must strive to avoid confusion that would halt the
mobilization of this celebration which year by year is becoming more
popular.
My suggestion is that since the
March 25th celebrations are in International Woman's Month, that we
continue them but instead of keeping these celebrations to ourselves, we
cease being selfish, and use the International Woman's Month
celebrations to let the international world know about our Royal Mother,
and get on programs that women are doing and let audiences know of
Empress Menen's achievements and what she means to the world. I
began working on pioneering Empress Menen celebrations when I had a
vision of the Emperor commanding me to "Tell the World who Queen
Omega is," as the Rastafari seemed to have forgotten her and she
was not being celebrated even in grass roots orders like the Nyahbinghi
and the Bobo - just lip service was being given. So who knows if this
"mistake" was not ivinely sent to make us focus on
bringing the good news of Queen Omega to the world?
ON April 3rd, we can then concentrate
on earthlife celebrations, Nyahbinghis, concerts etc... for the
congregation. Those of us who can, could begin our celebrations on March
25 by addressing the international women history month and close them on
April 3rd with earthlife celebrations. In the days between panel
discussions, talks about Rastafari women and where we are coming from and where we are going would be in order. We should not forget the
youth and their future too as Empress
Menen was devoted to youth, particularly girls and their education.
Have a blessed Empress Menen
celebration
Nana Farika
