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In our ancient and Afrikan tradition of communalism, cooperation and collectivity, we open with Libations.  By pouring Libations, we recognize all who have gone before and on whose shoulders we today stand and are obligated.  With one person pouring water, the substance of life, onto the ground or a plant, we all participate by responding in an Afrikan tongue, in essence saying, "so be it, it is done."  We say it in an Afrikan tongue to reclaim and reconstruct our person/peoplehood, our Goddess/God given humanity...far more important and superior to the accident of our "citizenry" or place of birth.  It can be said in Yoruba (A shea), Akan (ya al), Meta netu (hotep), Zulu (ye bo), or any Afrikan language of which you may have knowledge.  "Amen" is also an ancient Afrikan (Khemet/Egypt) word commonly used, but it's Afrikan origin unrecognized.  Amen or Ammon was Egyptian, a solar deity, he personified the sun after it had descended below the western horizon and thus hidden from sight.  Call and response, we do it in our churches and conversations all the time.

Call:  In the name of the great Afrikans who began the march of mankind, in the womb of Mother Afrika's Great Lakes Region, East Afrika, we ask these Afrikans to be with us to strengthen us and give us a vision for the future.
Response:  A Shea!

Call:  In the name of the great Afrikans who began the march of humankind, and marched down the Nile River, 4000 miles of the Nile River Valley, establishing their culture, their high culture, and their civilizations, building their temples, their tombs and their pyramids to their Goddess/God concepts, we ask these great Afrikans to be with us, strengthen us, and to give us a vision for the future.
Response:  A Shea!

Call:  In the name of the great Afrikans who opened up their culture of the Nile River Valley to other peoples, spread it around Afrika, and helped Afrikans in other parts of Afrika build the stone cities of Zimbabwe, the great empires of the Sudan, Ghana, Mali and Songhay, to build the great city-states of the Yourbas, the BaCongos, the Dogon, the Ashante and the Zulu.
The Afrikans who opened up Afrika to other peoples from other parts...the ancient Hebrews coming into Afrika from other parts and synthesizing Afrikaness and produced Judism, early Christians coming into Afrika, also synthesizing Afrikaness & producing the first Christian nations (Egypt and Ethiopia).  The early Greeks who came into Afrika to study at the feet of the Afrikans, going back to Greece, producing their schools of knowledge.  Later, the Prophet Muhammad's people, the Arabs, coming into Afrika and sythesizing the knowledge, producing Islam.  We ask these great Afrikans who opened up their hearts, minds and spirits to others and helped produce Judism, Christianity, Islam and Greek civilization and culture, we ask these Afrikans to be with us, to strengthen us and give us vision for the future.
Response:  A Shea!

In the name of the great Afrikans who pulled out of Afrika, but who kept the spirit of greatness in their hearts, and this love of Goddess/God in their being, and who fought for liberty and justice as they were put into the ships of enslavement, as they were brought across the ocean in the Middle Passage, were brought to those shores...South America, the Caribbean, and North America...and who left a legacy of struggle and freedom the likes of no other people.  To resist enslavement, they went into the highlands of Palmaris (Brazil) and Created the first free republic in the Americas (1600's), and into the backwoods of Surinam and produced the Akan cultures and civilizations of the Surinamka.  To resist bondage, they went into the highlands and mountains of Jamaica and other islands of the Caribbean and produced the Maroon communities, into the swamps and backwoods of Florida and Georgia and linked up with the Seminole Indians and produced the struggles for freedom of the Afrikan peoples in North America.  We ask these geat Afrikans to be with us, in the tradition of Harriet Tubman, Sojourer Truth, Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vessey.  We ask these Afrikans to be with us, strengthen us and give us a vision of the future.
Response:  A Shea!

In the name of our immediate Afrikan forebearers, Afrikans who renewed our contribution to science, who helped develop the light bulb and telephone, electricity, agricultural science, the tradition of opening up the United States' ideals to the realities of all of it's peoples, we ask these great Afrikans to also be with us and give us a vision for the future.  We ask this in the name of our Afrikan future.
Response:  A Shea!