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INTERVIEW: Queen Afua, Legacy Legend, & Oraje Nefertum Talk 'A Day of Healing' Event, Holistic Wellness, Women's Health + More

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Queen Afua exposes how 19th-century womb experiments on enslaved women created today's healthcare crisis for Black women.

Queen Afua appears on The Breakfast Club with her son Legend Ali and chemist Oraje Nefertum to discuss holistic wellness initiatives. They bring herbal products, detox kits, and plant-based food as gifts for the hosts. Queen Afua announces her nine-city Liberation Through Purification ascension tour spanning three countries including Bali, the UK, and Paris. She discusses visiting Birmingham and Selma, Alabama, where Michelle Bowden created a museum honoring women experimented on by Dr. James Sims, who performed repeated surgeries on enslaved black women's reproductive organs. Queen Afua explains that 45% of black women currently have fibroid tumors, the highest rate of any demographic, leading to hysterectomies. She argues that removing the uterus causes the body's "house" to collapse, affecting bladder and colon function along with mental and emotional health. Her forthcoming book Sacred Womb addresses this crisis specifically. Queen Afua declares that black women must take the lead in global healing, stating that the Most High told her melanin-conscious women are "wired up" to break generational traps. She attributes most diseases to accumulated congestion—physical, environmental, and relational. The 21-day detox program she promotes, inspired by Dick Gregory's work, cleared her asthma, hay fever, chronic PMS, and eczema 60 years ago. The detox kit includes Green Life formula, Master Herbal for liver/kidney/spleen cleansing, Colon Ease, and rejuvenation clay containing zinc, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. The Day of Healing event scheduled for March 29 at the Akwaaba Mansion will feature breathwork, sound healing, plant-based catering by Legend Ali, and fitness guidance from Scott Bernhardt. Oraje describes it as making participants the number one priority for one day to establish ongoing wellness habits. Queen Afua emphasizes creating wellness sanctuaries at home where kitchens become laboratories and bathrooms become hydrotherapy rooms. She promotes placing a healer in every family rather than relying solely on doctors. The conversation has an energetic, passionate tone with Queen Afua speaking rapidly about her mission. Charlamagne allows her to speak freely, periodically bringing the conversation back on track. The discussion is practical and action-oriented, providing specific event details, product explanations, and health statistics. This content appeals to audiences interested in holistic health, black wellness movements, ancestral healing practices, and alternatives to conventional medicine, particularly black women concerned about reproductive health disparities.

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Fast, direct wellness talk with enough heat to feel lived-in.

This segment stays centered on wellness, moving from colon care to breathwork and wider ideas about survival. Its strength is the looseness of the exchange: the speakers sound unpolished, and they rarely pause to hedge, which gives it the feel of a live morning-room argument…

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