FROM THE LAND OF THE DAGARA OF BURKINA FASO
Malidoma’s spouse, Fati Malidoma Somé, carries Malidoma’s name as a portion of her full name. It is her true name and her medicine name.
In Burkina Faso she can be referred to as “Madame Malidoma”.
Malidoma chose her for a significant reason:
To carry on his legacy with the fire of the ancestors backing her and him, as he directs her from the Other Side.
Named Annoubaternifa Fati Malidoma Somé, she carries the meaning of “Malidoma” as her prime directive and takes it forward to teach the ways of indigenous heart connection.
Malidoma saw in Fati the fire of the feminine, the character to lead legions, and the gift of discovering the correct spirit centered solution for the need at hand.
Fati is gifted with a vast otherworldly sense to search for and find the correct shaman needed in the vast land of Burkina Faso, like nobody else can. She spent over a decade in apprenticeship with shamans of West Africa.
He chose her for these powers and more, with conviction and knowing that she would carry on his great work, while hand in hand with him, even when he left to join with the ancestors.
“You will not remarry after I die, for you will remain my wife even still, and I will be your spirit husband…And if a child comes to you, even long after my death, you will name him Malidoma…”….Malidoma’s directions to Fati, before joining the Land of the Ancestors.
