Our Mission
To reconnect people with their ancestral authentic selves.
This is done by calling upon a mixture of practices and concepts from the South Afrikan Zulu (1st ancestor practices and also part of kwanza’s base), Congo Mayombe practices, and West Afrikan Egun practices, Voodoo, Native America shamanism and Kemetic ancestral concepts and practices.
This mission is open to diasporic practitioners beyond Egungun i.e., voodoo, Mayombe, Akan, etc., because the commonality and unifying nature of ancestral upliftment is the protection healing, and development of the human soul and spirit from birth through all phases of life and death to assist the soul in fulfilling its highest destiny and Potential: individually, as a family unit spirit, and as a community Collective spirit.
We are a living tradition and thus a work in progress as we transliterate from ancient and traditional practices to modifications and adaptations to our existence in this Diaspora Western situation.
Our motto is
Traditional principle with modern application
About Me
Baba, Geru Malenga: HeruMaakhet Ojegbile Neb-Shakara
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Baba Neb Shaka-Ra is an Active practicing ancestral priest. He is an Initiate of Egbe Oje Parapo an Egungun lineage out of Ibadan Nigeria. He also has numerous other African traditional religious (ATR) initiations in various other systems that he privately practices, including the Khematic practice, Orisha vernation, Palo Mayombe, and shamanism. His view is that his public Egungun practice is communal and that the success of a person is reflected in the community's success.
” the richest persons of a poor (oppressed) community are still poor (and oppressed)”.
His Western education includes undergraduate joint degrees in Philosophy and Information Systems from Rutgers University. He has a Master’s degree in Information Systems from NJIT with a graduate certification in Disaster management and further graduate work in education administration. He also attained an NJ professional teaching license with endorsements in Mathematics, Economics, and Social Studies.
Malenga Shakara
He has also been involved in martial and yogic practices from age 6, having studied various Asian, Western, and African arts including Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, western boxing, Fencing, Kickboxing, and Capoeira, Silat, Ground & standard Jujitsu. He is a master practitioner of the Ulimwengo, Kuimbiana Makonde, and Wkono Nikhet styles of Diasporic martial arts attaining the title of Mtu Malanga ({approximately 7th dan}in the Kupigana Ngumi family of arts). He is a Community Emergency Response Team CERT Program Manager.
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Geru Shakara
He is also an accomplished energy healer. He is a Mene Akhu Geru(Silent Heru), Reiki Master, Elemental Tantra instructor, and NLP Master Practitioner. These warrior and healing practices along with Kemetic, energetic and shamanic studies, rites, and rituals led him to Tibetan Buddhism Ordination (Ordained, April 2, 1993) and initiations such as the Tibetan Ra Kalachakra and the Gesar Lion King. (Go to https://loveunlimitedreiki.com for those services)
Baba Shakara
His first spiritual teacher was his grandfather. He was blessed to have a talented and magical core friend circle (T God, Grav, Kas & Khalil) push and supported his development. A later major early influence was his “Black Nationalist College Crew” and Dr. Rev. Ceil Canteen Grey who promoted liberation theology. As a result of his long involvement in African martial arts and cultural nationalism. Shakara was introduced to Orisha, Kemetic, and Kongo culture and practice in the early 90s. He participated in Kemetic, Orisha culture thought the 90s. While in orisha culture in Philadelphia he began his relationship with Iya Olakunle Oludina who would later become his key guide and mentor. In early 2002, Shakara began his training and initiation in orisha culture in Philadelphia with Omdina (Desiree E Brittingham) as his 1st godmother. Then in the summer of 2003, he broadened the congo study he had started with Shah Mfundishi Massi in African martial Arts to include Palo Mayombe. He continued his initiatory practice of Orisha veneration in September 2006 under the late Chief Afolabi (Former Obadajodo {King of the Law} Oltunji village). He then began his Ifa pre-apprenticeship under Baba Shaka Taylor (also of Oje Parapo Egungun) in 2008. Upon receiving his first hand of Ifa under the late Baba Shaka Taylor. Malanga Shakara then in fall 2009 began the formal study of Ifa orisha and Egungun under Baba Ifakunle (Baba Shaka Taylor senior godbrother) where he was initiated as an Egungun priest in 2010 in the Egbe Parpo lineage out of Ibadan Nigeria. Having a mindset of continuing education, Malenga Atogun Shakara frequently attends workshops and other spiritual training.
Shaman Shakara
After an encounter with a Ghanaian shaman in 2003(Dr. A. Kweku Andoh. Dr. Andoh ), Shakara began his shamanic work with entheogens by working with iboga a Congo herb used by the Bwiti people in religious ceremonies, which became publicly recognized for its ability to break an addiction. After successfully working with this plant medicine and both experiencing and seeing its beneficial effect on colleagues. Shakara expanded on working with psilocybin “magic mushrooms” and other Kemetic plant medicine like blue lotus and acacia. In 2011 he was initiated in the order of Osian {(also known as Ozain or Osanyin) the orisha of wild plants, healing, and magic in the Yoruba religion and its diaspora in the Americas}. In 2015 he began interweaving Ayahuasca into his ancestral spiritual practice. Due to Ayahuasca's legality and its outcomes being so successful he promotes it as a highly recommended part of his Spiritual intermediate level Development program and facilitates seasonal sessions.
Priest of the People
Shakara found his home in the Ancestral Egungun practice. He has participated and/or organized and performed many public and private, community and family rituals, and is known for his public ancestral feedings, regular classes and workshops, Pan African ancestral white tables and his commitment to communal rituals like Odunde, Tribute to the Ancestors (at Coney Island NY) and Egungun masquerades in general. In 2012 he co-founded the Pan African Egbe with, Baba Ifaniyi Akintunde and Iya Olakunle Oludina to address the lack of ancestral rites and rituals in the greater Northeast region
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Baba Shakara is a firm and supportive godfather, who being a professional educator, promotes the cultural and spiritual education of students, godchildren, clients, and his community at large. Baba Shakara strives to elevate the African community via Ancient and modern African Traditional spirituality to positively transform and elevate them across the African Diaspora. He believes that by developing the individual and the family the community is healed. His motto is the traditional principle with modern application. Consequently, he strives to balance maintaining an orientation that is both traditional and contemporary at the same time.
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Articles /Papers
Spiritual jurisdiction and the relation to Crowns of Kemet and ATR initiatory systems
Pan Afrakan Diasporic Ancestral Warrior Organizational History
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Meet the Team
Our team are capable culturally diverse independent practitioners,
​who integrate various best practices for different systems.
who work together as specialists to leverage our strengths to provide superior spiritual services
