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This article explores Africana philosophy and praxis, more specifically the African creative ideal and production. It mines earlier discussions on ancient African creative production for themes, memes, and essential principles, categorizing them for usefulness to discuss Africana creative production. Its overarching purpose is to discuss an Afrocentric framework that calls attention to how the ancients imaged and imagined the cosmos using aspects of Nefetari's house of eternity as a case example. Specifically, it uses Makunefer (Ma-ku-nefer), a concept inspired by the ancient African language and cultural ideas of Egypt (Kemet), to provide an Afrocentric perspective and assumptions for framing a discussion on Africans' creative production. Makunefer literally translates to the truly beautiful and effective. The article concludes that Ancient African creations served the people in a practical way by conforming to an ideal aspect of the world surrounding them—an ideal still useful today.

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