Why our archives must remember what they tried to erase
Inspired by Yurugu by Dr. Marimba Ani and The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness by Dr. Amos Wilson
There are books that confirm what we’ve felt all along—what our bones, our spirits, and our grandmothers already knew. Two of those books are Yurugu by Dr. Marimba Ani and The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness by Dr. Amos Wilson. These aren’t just academic texts; they are spells of clarity cast to break illusions that were never ours to carry.
I’m building Etherith, a Web3 library designed to remember. To archive our stories, our teachings, and our truths—before someone decides they no longer matter.
And these books? They remind me why this work can’t wait.
Dr. Ani teaches us about Asili
The soul of a culture. The lens through which everything is seen. In Yurugu, Dr. Ani breaks down the European asili—an ethos obsessed with control, disconnection, and objectification.
This worldview didn’t just colonize land. It colonized memory.
If Etherith is to be more than a tech project—if it is to become a living memory system—we must build from an asili that values wholeness, spirit, and ancestral knowing.
Dr. Wilson warns us about falsification
In The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness, Dr. Amos Wilson makes it plain: when your history is rewritten, your identity is reprogrammed. The goal? Disempowerment. Confusion. Compliance.
Sound familiar?
We’re watching entire movements, teachings, and thinkers vanish from digital spaces. Libraries are defunded. Books banned. The truth turned into “misinformation.”
We can’t fight falsification with facts alone.
We need infrastructure.
We need our own containers for truth.
We need memory tech that can’t be tampered with.
This is why Etherith exists
It’s not about nostalgia.
It’s about sovereignty.
We’re building a library that remembers—because forgetting is the first step toward erasure.
We are archiving not just books, but ways of knowing—ancestral, embodied, experimental, poetic. Memory lives in all forms. It deserves protection, innovation, and reverence.
To my fellow memory keepers:
Read these books.
Discuss them.
Build with them.
And then ask yourself:
What must we remember so deeply, so boldly, that it can never be erased again?