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First Ankhcestor is the first of a 12 album cycle celebrating the strength, resiliency, and beauty of Afrika and its diaspora. This recording honors the Drum as the first Ankhcestor.
The second album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic cycle, Song of the Dogon explores the mystical cosmology of the Dogon people of West Afrika.
The third album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic Cycle, Dance of the Orisha celebrates the IFA religious tradition of the Yoruba people in Nigeria.
The fourth album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic cycle, The Coming musically depicts the transformation of Afrikan people as a result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The fifth album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic cycle, Ma'afa musically depicts the torturous journey across the Atlantic.
The sixth album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic cycle, Up South: Conversations on American Idealism musically engages the notion that slavery was an American institution, not simply a southern sin.
The seventh album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic cycle, Four Women is a collection of musical portraits honoring the contributions of four women whose lives reflect the complexity of being both Black and Woman in the context of Western imperialism.
The eighth album in the 400: An Afrikan Epic cycle, Blues In August is a tribute to August Wilson and his Century Cycle which depicts the lives of non-immigrant Afrikans in America over the course of the 20th century.
