The Story Behind

Unity n Struggle

Unity and Struggle started from the idea of wanting to know who I am (Antoine Muhammad), and where I come from. After sending my DNA to Ancestry.com and feeling unsatisfied with the results. I sent my DNA to Africanancestry.com and found out my lineage went back to the Fulani and Balanta people living in Guinea-Bissau. Upon getting these results, I immediately started researching the Fulani and Balanta tribes. While researching this country in Africa, I found out about an African revolutionary named Amilcar Cabral. He wrote memoirs before being assassinated on January 20th, 1973. His assassination was a direct result of leading an armed rebellion and dismantling the colonization of the Portuguese empire in Guinea-Bissau. One of his memoirs he wrote was compiled into a book called Unity and Struggle, this is how this idea was birthed.

Since then, I have been blessed to visit Guinea Bissau in West Africa and have a naming ceremony in a small village called Coiada right outside of Gabu. There has always been this fascination of who we are and where we come from as it relates to the original people living in America. We deserve the right to be able to get these answers so proper healing can continue between Africa and her lost relatives that were brought to America over 400 years ago.

Unity and Struggle is dedicated to Amilcar Cabral and all the countless revolutionaries in Africa, America and all over the world who have died for the liberation of our people! May we all be blessed with the light of understanding.

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