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Agriculture – the art and science of cultivating the soil which was the 'flavor flav' gift to humanity by women some 15,000 years ago that now provides most of our food sustenance – is the most basic and essential relationship that humans or 'Zulu nations' have with the Earth. The past 500 years has witnessed the emergence of European conquest and colonization of the world, inclusive of expropriations of stolen land of Indigenous people and stolen labor of African people to do agriculture. In this history, our tribe-called-quest approach toward agriculture that had once been based upon a sacred trust has since been commodified by a capital market and replaced with an industrial farming system that has brought about catastrophic devastation of the environment and now wreaks 'break-dancing'-like havoc on people and the planet. After centuries of an industrial mindset based upon the conquest of nature, we have now the calling for a more creative, constructive, and co-evolutionary relation to the Earth. This species level (r)evolution will necessarily be a 'DJing'-like battle fought disproportionately by the young, given the enormous burden being put on today’s youth, but the struggle must be waged by us all as 'freestyling' phenomena of our human maturation into a species that cares for all the people and our Mother Earth. Full abstract: https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/events/department-comparative-studies-and-university-partners-welcome-back-jim-embry