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Instead
of Microsoft Windows etc..I use UBUNTU software on my computer.Ubuntu
is free (costs nothing) and I never get viruses,you can get them in
your local language also including some African languages.My stumbleupon name tag is Cocoyam.I have alot of reviews on stumbleupon.comManashantii.com began around June 2003.
Manashantii's website is about herself and her interests.You will find poems and her opinions on this website.
Manashantii's website is written in the English of the United Kingdom.
Some of my favourite women I admire are Ayaan Hirsi Ali,Nawal El Saadawi,Waris Dirie,Maysa Leak,Wangari Maathai,Neneh Cherry,Alice Walker,RebeccaWalker,Toni Morrison,Anais Nin, Sade,Jhelisa Anderson,India.Arie, Amel Larrieux,Bjork and Madonna.
The men I admire are Lenny Kravitz,Greydon Square,Infidel guy,Siddharta Gautama (Buddha),Bhante Buddharakita, Ajahn Karuniko Bhikku, Omar Lye-Fook, Kofi Annan, Lonnie Liston Smith,George Benson, Seal (Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel),Sacha Baron Cohen and more.
The name Manashantii. Manashantii are Sanskrit and Hindi words meaning peaceful mind.Mana and Manisha in Sanskrit means thought,mind,consciousness,emotion,heart.Shanti in Sanskrit means peace, tranquillity,quiet,and silence.
Mana has different meanings in different countries all over the world.In most countries Ma and Na mean mother and grandmother.
Mana in Polynesian,Melanesian,Maori and Hawaiian means universal power,divine power,creative power, or great spirit.
Mana in Polynesian also means universal life force which absorbs and permeates everything,it also means energy or God or Goddess.
Mana means mother in Greek.
Mana means truth in the Lau dialect of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.In Japan,Korea and China there are many different meanings for Ma,Na,and Mana.Ma in Japanese means mountain flower,beautiful flower,and Mana means heavenly paradise and also in Japanese Mana means true or truth.
Mana in Bantu,and African language means vagina. Mana also means I am here in the present moment.
Manashantii is my goal for myself and everyone I meet.
In Ghana,in the Akan language,Mana could mean fourth girl child and Ashanti is an Akan tribe in Ghana,however I am not fourth born and I am not from the Ashanti tribe.Although people think these things I don't mind because I am half Ghanaian and first born.Asante is a Ghanaian surname and I speak Akan/Ashanti
/Twi.
Manashantii's origins.Manashantii originates from an upper-class African background.Manashantii's mother is from Ghana and her father is from Niger, she is a quarter Afante (Saltpond),a quarter Brong Ahafo (Nkwaabeng)and half Djerma (Zaberma). Manashantii is a woman who was born in Accra,Ghana,she has been a resident in the United Kingdom since January 1981.
Manashantii loves her boyfriend, vegan food,all kinds of music (especially Classical, Jazz,Opera and Unknown Black female soul artists),African dancing (includes belly dancing),walking and meeting different people from around the world (which is easy to do in multi-cultural London).
Manashantii has been a Theraveda and Zen Buddhist meditator for about 30 years.She is a life-long agnostic.Manashantii is also a Humanist, and a member of the British Humanist Association.
(Manashantii has explored most religions,however she has never been Zoroastrian,Sikh, Bahai, Jain or Jewish!!)
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