{"id":5303,"date":"2023-07-24T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:23:37","slug":"the-warrior-saints-of-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5303","title":{"rendered":"The Warrior Saints of Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inserting new narratives into amnesiac gaps created by colonial forces, adept at erasing our past, new mythologies are devised. This is the core of Afrofuturism: a conversation with the past projected into the future\u2026 <strong><em>The Warrior Saints<\/em><\/strong> dips into a melting pot of West African folklore, oral traditions, and aesthetics to fabricate new modalities. It is also a riposte to the disneyficaton of the mami wata mythos; with echoes of the Songhai, Mali, Ashanti, Benin, Oyo empires resounding from the depths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01.png 1024w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01-290x290.png 290w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/01-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 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