About the Maroon Monarchy of Gànlɔdó
𞤃𞤭 𞤳𞤵𞤢𞤦𞤮𞥊𞥅 𞤦𞤭𞥞 Mi kúabɔ̀ bi! Welcome to All
Thank you for taking your valuable time to get to know the 𞤑𞤭𞤤𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤥𞤦𞤮𞤲𞤵 Kilɔmbonu (Maroon) monarchy (𞤝𞤌𞥊𞥅𞤼𞤮𞤥𞤫𞥊𞥅 Xɔ́tómɛ̀) of 𞤘𞤢𞥈𞤲𞤤𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤣𞤮 Gànlɔdó (Ghan-law-doe). We are here to restore the Kilɔmbo/Quilombo spirit back to its rightful place in the African Vodún tradition and Afrikan ways of life in general. Thus, It should be stated that Gànlɔdó is a heterosexual-Afrikan/”Black” only monarchy. This is ancestral. This is not a religion.
The root of our work is family development and nation building based solidly in our West African 𞤇𞤮𞤣𞤵𞤲 Vodún and Yorùbá 𞤋𞥃𞤫𞥊𞥅𞥃𞤫𞥊𞥅 Ìṣẹ̀ṣẹ̀ traditions. Though our focus is West African Vodún and Yorùbá Ìṣẹ̀ṣẹ̀, we are 100% in support of the functional use of any of our living Afrikan traditions for the sake of obtaining sovereignty.
The name 𞤘𞤢𞥈𞤲𞤤𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤣𞤮 Gànlɔdó comes from the Ajã phrase “𞤒𞤫 𞤣𞤮 𞤺𞤢𞤲 𞤩𞤢 𞤶𞤤𞤢 𞤣𞤮 𞤣𞤮𞥂𞤮 𞤼𞤵𞤼𞤮 𞤱𞤫 – Ye do gan gba jla do dokpo tuto we” – those that broke the chains to restore order. These are the ones who are rising from the ashes, like the sacred Afrikan Ibis bird, to clear out the rampant chaos, discontent, and lack of empowerment of Afrikan people.
For us, healing is mental, spiritual, physical, financial, and cultural to say the least. One may ask, why the focus on healing? When one contemplates that ingrained trauma imposed on Afrikan people for the past almost 7 centuries one will easily see the need for healing. How do we heal? It is our duty at Gànlɔdó, to utilize every aspect of our culture to heal and restore Afrikan people back to their natural state of spirit connectivity. We do this through divination, ritual, counseling, diet, economics, spiritual practices of centering and forwardness, mental elevation, overall holistic cleansing, proper legal education, and more. We also believe that, to truly heal and elevate, Afrikans must know the enemy without and the enemy within. We say in Yoruba: “ 𞤚𞤭 𞤳𞤮 𞤦𞤢 𞤧𞤭 𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤼𞤢 𞤲𞤭𞤲𞤵⹁ 𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤼𞤢 𞤤𞤢𞤭𞤧𞤭 𞤳𞤮 𞤤𞤫 𞤦𞤮𞤪𞤭 Ti ko ba si ọta ninu, ọta laisi ko le bori. If there is no enemy within, the enemy without cannot prevail.” Therefore, the primary focus for us is the self. To be self-fortified is to be enemy-fortified.
Our way of life is based in what we refer to as the Kilɔmbo Paradigm.The Kilɔmbo Paradigm is based upon the Maroon philosophy of obtaining complete sovereignty in every aspect of life essentials for Afrikan people. Our foundational focus is ReAfrikanization, Family Development, and Nation Building. Why is “maroon" (kilɔmbonu) emphasized in our identity?
The Maroons were originally those Afrikans who not only resisted captivity from day one, but also built their own sovereign communities away from captivity. In this, they were governed by the laws of their own original culture and praised their own ancestors and deities. The communities they built were called kilɔmbo – after the Ki Bantu word for “intentional encampment aimed at sovereignty and re-establishing order”. This Bantu word was corrupted by the Portuguese to "Quilombo". The word Kilɔmbonu implies a something related to Maroonage. A 𞤂𞤭𞤤𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤥𞤦𞤮𞤥𞤵𞤲𞤼𞤵 Kilɔmbomuntu is one who lives the Kilombo Paradigm way of life.
Our focus at Gànlɔdó Xɔ́tómɛ̀ is to raise family-citizens’ self-help efforts to an art through individual involvement, intellect, spirit and unity. Our ambition is individual and family involvement, material and spiritual success. Our message is that no individual is alone; we are who we are because we are members of a family, community, society and race. There is no conceited economic baron or leader among us. There is no competition among family; only love and sharing of our pains and fortunes collectively and honestly.
Working patiently and diligently, we hope to use our collective goodwill, abundant physical energy, enthusiasm for hard work, and our love of goodness and truth to build fortresses of virtue and success. This, in time, would be a magnet on its own to install an ultimate new and elevated order of virtuous civilization for Máwùfɛnumeto (Afrikan person/people).
Gànlɔdó is a functional Afrikan monarchy. By this, we mean that we are not an Afrikan monarchy just for monarchy’s sake. We also serve our community. In this, the priests and chiefs, including the king, at Gànlɔdó (Maroon) Monarchy provide the following:
Counseling
Cultural solutions
Afrikan Monarchial structure for everyday life
Family Development Structure
Nation building
Business goals directives
Land acquirement and development
Economic intelligence
Lifting generational curses
Functioning examples of how to live an up to date Maroon lifestyle
Sincere charity
Community development
Security solutions
Founding
Directed by the divine Fá oracle, Gànlɔdó was founded in the year of our calendar 𞥖𞥒𞥕𞥓 6253 A.X., with “AX” referencing the period of years that have passed since the advent of clan consolidation. This was two years after H.I.M. 𞤀𞤿𞤮𞥊𞥅𞤧𞤵 𞤀𞤺𞤫𞥊𞥅𞤤𞤮𞤩𞤢𞤺𞤢𞤲 Axɔ́sú Àgɛ̀lògbàgàn was officially crowned as Axɔ́sú (King) in the year 6251 AX or 2010 Gregorian calendar. The Axɔ́sú is an profound diviner, spiritual intuit, and author of 23 publications on authentic and functional African Vodún subjects.
Royal Seal of Gànlɔdó
Royal Standard of Gànlɔdó
𞤘𞤢𞤲𞤤𞤮𞥊𞤣𞤮 𞤸𞤮𞤼𞤮𞤥𞤫 𞤧𞤭𞤲 𞤥𞤫 𞤬𞤭 𞤮𞥊⹁ 𞤥𞤭 𞤥𞤮 𞤶𞤮𞤲𞤮 𞤮⹁ 𞤥𞤭𞤲𞤲𞤮𞤥𞤵𞤭 𞤺𞤢𞤲𞤶𞤭. 𞤄𞤮 𞤥𞤭 𞤦𞤭 𞤱𞤢⹁ 𞤥𞤭 𞤲𞤢 𞤱𞤢 𞤣𞤮𞤥𞤺𞤢𞤲𞤶𞤭 𞤦𞤮 𞤲𞤢 𞤤𞤫 𞤾𞤮 𞤴𞤭 𞤺𞤢𞤥𞤶𞤭. 𞤦𞤮𞥊 𞤣𞤢𞤺𞤫 𞤲𞤢 𞤸𞤵𞤲 𞤢𞤤𞤭 𞤲𞤵 𞤥𞤭 𞤦𞤮 𞤲𞤭 𞤥𞤭 𞤦𞤮 𞤲𞤭 𞤦𞤢 𞤥𞤭𞤣𞤫 𞤦𞤮 𞤱𞤢 𞤬𞤭 𞤮 𞤥𞤭 𞤲𞤢 𞤥𞤮 𞤦𞤭 𞤃𞤭 𞤳𞤢 𞤱𞤢 𞤺𞤮.
Gànlɔdó Xotɔmɛ sin to mɛ fi ɔ, mi mɔ jonɔ ɔ, mi nɔ yi ganji. Bɔ mi bi wa, mi na wa ɖo ganji bo na lɛ vɔ yi ganji. Bɔ ɖagbe na hun ali nu mi bɔ nu e ba miɖe bɔ wa fi ɔ mi na mɔ bi. Mi ka wa gɔn ce e ɔ, nu e gbe mitɔn wa fi ɔ, e na bu ɖo mi a.