Jamaa-the revolutionary home of Missouri’s First Black Certified Professional Midwife & Black CPM Preceptor, and First Black Midwifery Clinic, School & Museum💜✊🏾 Stepping back in time to an interview on the Nine PBS Donnie Brook show in 2023, featuring Jamaa Birth Village Founder-Okunsola M. Amadou-on the origins of the Black Doula & Black Midwifery movement in St. Louis, Missouri. ✨In this short interview, she lays the landscape and importance of our mission, vision, purpose and values, throu

At Jamaa we celebrate and honor Communal Leadership anchored in Ancestral Midwifery practices, lineages & cultural heritage. For generations across Africa and the diaspora, birthwork has been sustained through matrilineal lines that are not defined by family ties alone, but by shared responsibility, apprenticeship, and the sacred trust of community care.💜 With the retirement of Jamaa’s founder, we maintain & honor these roots, and project them firmly into the future. Jamaa has created and now f