African Indigenous Midwifery Museum & Library

Name: African Indigenous Midwifery Museum & Library
Address: 40 N Florissant Road, Ferguson, MO, 63135, US
Telephone: +18334643943

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The Black Midwife Museum of the Global Diaspora at Jamaa Birth Village-dedicated to preserving, honoring, and uplifting the legacy of African Indigenous & Black midwifery, through immersive exhibits, artifacts, oral histories, and ancestral traditions.

08/21/2026

Midwifery Care at the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum!

Did you know that our museum is housed within the Historic Jamaa Birth Village Cultural Heritage Center in Ferguson, Missouri, where we actively provide free and low-cost midwifery preconception, prenatal, postpartum and full home birth care?

Yes! It’s true, that families can experience traditional, cultural, and communal midwifery care immersed fully with our historic museum, where the memories of ancient midwifery, fertility and matrilineal artifacts come to life with each visit, with our Midwives in Residence.

Free and low-cost scholarship based care is made possible through our partnerships with birthFUND and Chicago Beyond.

Visit https://jamaabirthvillage.org/midwifery-care/ to learn more and to begin your care in St. Louis.💜✨

07/21/2026

There are some moments you always remember, that moves you, shifts your being, and ask of you to go higher, deeper, farther, and wider, into your power-as a mother.💜

A heartfelt thank you to Sunni Patterson for sharing her gift with us at the 3rd Annual Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit in St. Louis. As an internationally acclaimed poet, author, cultural worker, and educator, she brought a presence to the summit that words alone cannot fully capture, but that our souls, continues to feel.

To everyone who gathered with us, thank you for saying yes to being with us. Your presence, your openness, and your willingness to be part of this community made this gathering unforgettable.

And if you’re already thinking about joining us next year, we’ll be here, ready to welcome you.✨🌿

07/20/2026

Family, help us welcome Nikki Wilson to the Village. 💜

We are so grateful to introduce Jamaa Birth Village’s Community & Operations Coordinator.

Nikki is often times the first voice you hear when you call, the first caring hands to welcome and receive you when you arrive, or the initial team member who answers your questions via Jamaa’s main email. Nikki is a kind, nourishing and communal focused team member, who weaves together administrative operations, cultural care & community engagement.

Welcome to the Village, Nikki. We are so happy you are here!

Learn more about Nikki on our website under our team page: jamaabirthvillage.org/our-team/

Y’all drop a heart in the comments and help us welcome Nikki to the Village.✨

07/10/2026

Happy Venus Day from the Village. ☀️💛

Today, lean into the medicine of the sun.

Step outside, let the light touch your skin, allow the heat soften your shoulders, welcome your body in remembering warmth, pleasure, and ease.

Our melanated skin knows the sun, it has always known how to meet the light.

So today, while you love on yourself, allow the sun to love on you too.

Sunbathe, stroll, sit still, breathe deep, let the warmth hold you.

07/09/2026

There was a time when the midwife was one of the most trusted people in the community.

She carried knowledge that wasn’t always written down. She knew the families, the herbs, the prayers, and the traditions that helped welcome babies safely into the world.

This Gullah Geechee Midwife Quilt holds that kind of history.

And while pictures can show you the beauty, they can’t give you the full feeling of standing in front of it and taking in the story stitch by stitch.

We invite you to visit the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum at Jamaa Birth Village and take a tour to experience this artifact, and so many others, in person. 🤎

07/03/2026

Happy Venus Day from the Village. 💛

Today, we invite you to let beauty find you in the small places in the heat of the sun on your skin, the smell of shea butter, fresh fruit, rain, incense, greens on the stove, or something sweet baking in the kitchen.
In somebody laughing from their belly. In a song that makes your shoulders move. In the gold of the evening light and the softness of your own breath.

Our people have always known how to find beauty, even in hard seasons. We made rhythm out of grief, gardens out of concrete, altars out of windowsills, songs out of sorrow, and sweetness out of whatever we had left.

Beauty gives the mind a place to rest. Pleasure gives the body permission to soften. Joy reminds the spirit that we are more than what we carry.

So today, step outside if you can. Let the sun touch you. Notice the colors, the smells, the sounds, the art, the music, the little bit of honey tucked inside the day.
Give yourself a moment that does not require you to produce, explain, fix, hold, or fight.

Just be here. Be soft. Be kissed by life.

Happy Venus Day, family. May beauty interrupt the noise, may pleasure be part of your care, and may joy help you keep making it.

07/01/2026

Happy July, family.

This month, The Village is entering a season of summer rest and hibernation.

While our administrative offices are moving at a softer pace, midwifery care, urgent community needs, and essential emails will still be tended to with care. We are not disappearing. We are simply honoring the wisdom of slowing down.

Rest is not a break from the work. Rest is part of how we remain here. It is how we restore our bodies, clear our minds, soften our spirits, and return to the work with deeper breath, sharper vision, and steadier hands. Rest is resistance.

This month, we invite you to explore water, rest, nature, softness, fuzzy blankets, tight hugs, outdoor joy, and deep care with yourself and your family.

We are doing this work at the pace of care.

Stay soft, family.
The Village is still here.

🖼️ Senegambia 81

06/30/2026

Women Rebirthing the World🌊 Preserving African Indigenous & Black Diasporic culture & spirituality in childbirth, women’s wellness and beyond.

This weekend, Jamaa Birth Village & African Indigenous Midwifery Museum Founder-Okunsola M. Amadou-traveled to New Orleans to take part in the 4-Day Women Rebirthing the World ceremonies, hosted by Nana Sula Spirit.

Priestesses, Historians and Divine Feminine leaders from all over the globe, gathered to honor the great mother that blesses, governs and protects our earth, the mothers giving birth, the midwives and healers that care for them, and the children born into this world.💜

Haitian Manbos- stewards of the Loa, Mamissi’s-Priestesses of Mami Wata and the blessings of the deep
ocean, fertility, femininity, wealth and miracles, Priestesses of Yemoja-the mother of the surface seas and of the fishes & children, Priestesses of Obatala-the Orisa governing the shaping of new life forming in the womb, and Vajrayana Buddhist Teachers of the sacred divine feminine, together led a powerful calling forth through interpretative storytelling, healing, workshops, ceremony, dance and song.

We called in the healing of our planet, healing of the womb, harmony and strength for women during motherhood, miracles for what ails our bodies, sacred medicine to soothe our souls. We called in the fire and blaze for the protection of women being harmed in the patriarchy, and for transformation for our vast lands that’s calling for balance.🌿

Together, as women, we are actively-Rebirthing the World.

Major gratitude to Nana Sula, an AIMM Advisory Council member and founding co-curator, for her vision in giving birth to this movement. Gratitude to New Orleans for holding us in her womb for this work, and to the Priestesses and historians who co-led this weekend-Mama Karla, Mama Anoa, Elder Dr. Kim, Manbo Charlene, Iya Omidina, Ma**ca the event curator and to all of our guests who joined us.

We’re excited to continue this work, supported by and African Indigenous Midwifery Museum & Library, and Rutgers University across the globe.✨

06/29/2026

Black birth history is not lost. Much of it was hidden, erased, dismissed, stolen or taken out of context.

At Jamaa, the museum and research library help us remember what our people have always known: birth work is sacred work, and Black midwives have always been central to the survival and wellness of our communities.

Address

40 N Florissant Road
Ferguson, MO
63135

Telephone

+18334643943

Website

https://jamaabirthvillage.org/black-midwifery-museum/

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