Modern Day POW

Modern Day POW

Today I laid my eyes on the most eclectic granary at the museum in Cologne. I am humbled to be serving some Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine around this granary and then speaking about the connection between German POWs and demise one equally majestic granary among my indigenous community around 1945. The German POWs were had a great role to destruction of that particular granary for their extraction of food from the public granary without replenishing it. That act, out of desperation, injustice of the war and luck of cultural sensitivity spelled the end of an era of food literacy and consciousness of the highest level that dictated that food was a right even to passers by who would access the food from that granary built by the walking pathway for free.

Things are coming full circle and I will be explaining the cultural significance and the consequences of the actions of the German POWs to hundreds of anthropologists but at cost of several granaries worth of food. The biggest coincidence is that the conference is taking place when the world has turned many of us into PUBs or prisoners of unjust bellies.

Our stomachs have literally become battle grounds between justice and injustice. I will explain why and the menu will demonstrate how a fight on the side of justice would look like.

Looked from the side, the Indonesian granary’s roof looks like a pair of bird wings. That’s a great symbol for where we are headed as a result of our consciousness of Afro Futurism. A popular saying in my culture informed by the speed by which the German POWs( known as Bono) would dash out after selling their trench coat for food was that “ wathiĩ ta bono yendetie kabuti “( you sped like a German POW after he has sold his trench coat). The saying depicts the level of hunger amongst the POWs. We now find our selves in a similar situation running away from the monster that was born after the 5 centuries of war on indigenous communities that culminated in the 1945 saga.

That monster has been the almost invisible destruction of the general food consciousness that marked the lives of those who survived the immediate violence both as victors or lossers. We truly need wide wings and public granary of consciousness about food such as the one captured in the story of one Ikumbĩ rĩa Ngai. That is a great place to start our healing. That is the spirit of Afo Futuristic Conscious Cuisine or what could be rightly called a cuisine of the granary. That is one possible way of saving ourselves from being driven into a similar insanity of running like a modern day POW in search of healing from the consequences of the Fiat Food Consciousness born out of the unjust food system under whose gaze we live under. The ravenous nature of the ranging Fiat Food Consciousness is that it doesn’t recognize artificial boundaries or racial and class classification but is an equal opportunity epidemic.

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Chef Kabui

The Hex Kitchen is a collaboration between Chef Kabui and the Hex community in a bid to promote food literacy, mindful eating and wealth creation. There is a natural connection between those who are fighting against fiat currency and those engaged in the struggle against fiat food. The two social ills of fiat currency and fiat food are at the heart of the tyrannic global world system we are now living in. That tyranny is directly connected to the climate crisis we face and there is no way we can solve one part of the problem without being mindful of the whole system, For a start, the Hex Kitchen is keen on addressing the issues of real money and real food as a basis on regaining our sovereign power. It is no accident that the struggle for food justice would find allies in cryptography and more specifically cryptocurrency. It is not a usual collaboration but yet it is one that makes sense on many levels. Chef Kabui has been studying and applying the power of food literacy, mindful eating and food justice in the struggle against oppression in general and specifically to people of African descent.

Chef Kabui has studied the disciplines of politics, anthropology and culinary arts and has designed a cuisine or rather an approach to food that is informed by the above experience and the indigenous knowledge that he gained from his Kenyan family’s history as sustainable farmers for generations. The combined experience and education resulted in the creation of a cuisine called Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine. It is a combination of the most sustainable practices in the growing, preparation of food with the goal of causing the least damage to the environment and maximizing the health benefits of the food. Those two conditions are necessary for a mindful community that ensures that justice thrives.

Chef Kabui has been pushing organic food and healthy eating based on his research and his own experience. The idea of healthy food and justice is not something that chef Kabui got into but was born in it. His family operated a farm and his father ran a restaurant in the capital city of Nairobi. Kabui grew up in the village with his mother where they grew almost all the food they consumed. It was at his family farm that he Kabui developed a love for fresh food and the art of consuming food following the natural cycles of seasons.

The collaboration aims to share the skills for healthy food to the Hex community and beyond. No community can survive without food and the Hex community is no different. The Hex Kitchen is another assembly point for the community to be nourished both physically and socially. While wealth is private, food is social and having a kitchen for the community to assemble is a great option for a community that is causing ripples across the world.

What to Expect

The Kitchen will have virtual classes, content on Youtube and other social media presence for a start. The goal is that the Kitchen will have a physical place that will have a kitchen in a farm that will grown food and have space that guest can visit. The farm will have a demonstration farm for the vegetables, fruits and herbs,

For the schedule of upcoming classes please visit our events section and find a class that is fit for your schedule.