Born at Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, Muhammida El Muhajir (the praiseworthy pilgrim), August 9, this Sun in Leo child couldn't wait to get out of her mother's womb; she was a primo baby--six months inside her mother was enough. This child had things to do!
During her early years in Oakland, she attended Clara Muhammad's University of Islam and the Black Panther School on International Blvd. One of her babysitters was Wanda Sabir, now instructor at College of Alameda and writer for the New Bayview Newspaper. Wanda's parents often read to her Marvin X's classic fable The Black Bird. It was one of the few stories conscious parents read their children.
Muhammida didn't wait for her parents to pass the baton, as a track star, she took the baton and ran for her life, traveling the world in the tradition of the family name El Muhajirs (the pilgrims), ending in Ghana, West Africa, where she works at a school for the new technology.
Many of her friends had preceded her to Ghana, but on one visit she decided to apply for a job and has decided to live in Ghana although she owns property in Brooklyn. She told Ebony she had reached the glass ceiling in America. There's only so far a Black girl can go. I went to the top but I know there is more I can accomplish. Plus, I don't want my daughter to be damaged by growing up in the toxic environment of American racism and white supremacy. Ghana may not have electricity 24/7, but they don't have white supremacy 24/7. I can go to the high class stores and hotels and not be followed around. Who needs to go through this insanity in America? I refuse to do so.
I have been coming to Africa since I was 15 so it's not new to me. I am very much at home here, as I am anywhere in the world. I have friends all over the world. When her mother accompanied her to England and Paris, she said, "My daughter is as well known on the streets on London and Paris as she is on the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn."
Producer of Keyshia Cole Day in Oakland, Frank Ogawa Plaza, she enjoys a moment with her father whom she hired to write and recite a poem to bring Keyshia on stage.
Muhammida with Ghanian poets and rappers: Block, EL, Muhammida, Reggie
Muhammida and Mary J. Blige on a project to stop human trafficking of young women
Daughter Mahadevi, speaks French and Mandarin
Before producing Keyshia Cole Day in Oakland, way back when she was working for NIKE, she produced the VIP party for the NBA All Star Games at NIKETOWN in Union Square, San Francisco; yes, she had parties on all seven floors of NIKETOWN.
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