According to Janice D. Hamlet, this is “NOMMO.” “Nommo” is the African oral tradition Africans brought to the U.S. and maintained since their arrival here as part of the “Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” Nommo asserts the “generative power of the spoken word” and that it is “necessary to actualize life and give man mastery over all things.” This is the authentic record of our lives, the ongoing history of our endurance in the face of obstacles, not of our making.
