Can’t Hold Us Down: A New Millennium of Heka (Revised Edition 2.0) develops “remembrance as methodology” as a decolonial research framework integrating historiography, autoethnography, African diasporic epistemology, and spiritual philosophy as disciplined modes of knowledge production. The manuscript challenges Eurocentric separations of reason and ritual by positioning ancestral continuity as analytic structure rather than metaphor. Through historical synthesis and critical reflection—drawing from Nile Valley civilization, the Mali Empire, Indigenous resistance movements, the Haitian Revolution, and diasporic spiritual traditions—the work argues that memory functions as structural power. Revision 2.0 refines historiographical framing, expands geopolitical context (including post-revolutionary economic containment of Haiti), integrates analysis of contemporary narrative control, and formalizes a poetic–liturgical closure embodying the manuscript’s theoretical claims.
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