QM Dr. ChenziRa Davis Kahina (host on Da Crew Podcast)

QM Dr. ChenziRa Davis Kahina 

Griot | Educator | Cultural Creative Artivist | Communication Specialist | Priestess |Holistic Developer | Researcher I Bibliophile | Author | Heritage Curator

"Bamboula represents more than a dance step style for performance and public entertainment. It represents a socio-cultural, socio-political and psycho-spiritual engagement that fuses body, mind, spirit and consciousness with sacred traditions, inspirational vision and freedom from physical, mental and spiritual bondage on a multiplicity of dimensions." (Davis Kahina: 2009)

ChenziRa Davis Kahina respectfully known as “Dr. Chen” is a co-founding director of Per Ankh (House of Life)©, and creatrix of ANUPerAnkh© instituting Culture, Healing, Arts, Technology and Spirituality for Life, Inspiration, Freedom, and Education (CHATS4LIFE©). Davis Kahina is the founding creatrix of AST Speaks©, NUWOMANRISING©, and Heritage Education Arts Legacy© (HEAL); inaugural founding director of the Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center (VICCC); Assistant Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI); and producer/director/writer/narrator for Bamboula cultural heritage education creative arts. Davis Kahina’s academic credentials and intellectual research journeys include Rutgers University (NCAS), Pepperdine University (CA), University of California- San Diego, International University of Natural Sciences, and other global institutions. Davis Kahina's communitarian arts consultancy work collaborates with Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (CADA)- Miami/Global; Cisco

the Artist™ Enterprises (US/DR); Creative Justice Initiative©, Corredor Afro©, Girl Child Art Foundation - African Female Artist Mentorship Program (Nigeria/Global); Afrakan Caribbean Cultural Artivists International, and other global entities. Davis Kahina has researched, choreographed, produced, taught, and published on the Bamboula and related cultural heritage arts for more than 35 years inclusive of Restoration of the St. Croix Bamboula; Three Queens: A VI Chautauqua; and Bamboula Sacred Cultural Traditions.

Davis Kahina has served as author, contributing editor, creative visionary, artist, and producer for multi-media and creative scholarly publications and productions inclusive of Hell Under God’s Orders: HUGO by Dr. Gloria I. Joseph, Audre Lorde and Hortense Rowe (1991); Cognitive Trends of Education for African Caribbean Americans (1998); Listening to Ancestral Wisdom: Sacred Conch Shell Inspirations (2004); Three Queens of the Virgin Islands (Chautauqua/Play: 2005); Heritage Education Arts Legacy-HEAL© (2013); The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde by Dr. Gloria I. Joseph (2015); Caribbean Cultural Studies: 21st Century Paradigms for University-Level Heritage Education and Arts Legacy Programs (2014+); Queens of the Virgins (Film Screening at CARIFESTA 2017 Barbados); Fireburn: The Documentary (Produced by Angela Golden Bryan 2020); AfRaKan Women Lead (Arts and Sciences Research/Building Legacy Media: 2023); Miami Art Basel/CADA (2019-2023), and other collaborative partnerships and provisions of creative productions, authorship, media documentation, broadcasting, transcultural digital media, and creative arts publications annually. Davis Kahina works collaboratively with interdisciplinary, socioeconomic, Caribbean centered organizations, and global alliances inclusive of: Caribbean Pan African Network (CPAN); CARICOM Caribbean Reparations Commission (CRC);African Union ECOSOCC (AU); Universal Negro Improvement Association African Communities League (UNIAACL RC2020); AfRaKan Queen Mother Warriors (AQMW)©; VI Architecture Center for Built Heritage and Crafts (VIAC); Toastmasters International™- St Croix Toastmasters; Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus©; Carib Academy©; Society of Virgin Islands Historians; Caribbean Studies Association (Past President); Society of Black Archaeologists™; St. Croix Foundation for Community Development-Non Profit Consortium; God’s House International ©; PULSE™; Temple of Inner Peace©; Seminole-Maroons Council; Maroon Indigenous Women's Network; Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS); Virgin Islands Cultural Heritage Institute (VICHI); AIDO Network International™ (Ambassador at Large); Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts; VI Youth Advocacy Coalition (VIYAC); Music In Motion School of Higher Dance Education (MIMSHDE); and other global academic, sustainable, humanitarian, and civil society networks, institutions, and organizations.

https://www.youtube.com/astspeaks AST Speaks

https://youtu.be/58D4pBaXdrQ Queens of the Virgins (Trailer)

https://youtu.be/s1SbQh9qKkk?si=aJuPKBKyqOJlmV7k Bamboula: An Introduction https://encyclopediajumbie.wordpress.com Cultural Heritage Arts Resources

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