Dwight D York or A Aferti Atum Re or A'aferti Atum-Re (born June 26, 1945 or 1935) is an author and a musician, as also the founder of a number of fraternal orders, black nationalist and religious communities collectively referred to as Nuwaubians. Known by a multitude of aliases over the years, York uses a © suffix into his signature on a Liberian Consulate document.
York and the Nuwaubians were subjected to more and more government vigilance in the early-1990s after the building of Tama-Re, an ancient Egyptian-themed city consisting of pyramids, temples, and residential quarters for hundreds of his followers, in Putnam County, Georgia near Eatonton.
Charged with over 100 counts of child molestation and other imputations, A Aferti Atum Re was arrested in May of 2002. Convicted in 2004, he was sentenced to 135 years in prison.
Dr. York, A Aferti Atum Re sang vocals on a solo project and for a group called Passion. York has been teaching an ever-changing and multifaceted doctrine over the years, with influences and borrowings from multiple sources, like a baroque cosmology, black nationalism, conspiracy theory, crypto-zoological and extraterrestrial speculations, religious practices, and unconventional theories about race and human origins. The Tama-Re compound established by York and his followers in 1993 was mostly demolished after being sold under government forfeiture in 2005.
In the late 1960s York called himself Amunnubi Rooakhptah and invented a semi-Muslim black nationalist movement. Changing his name to Imaam Isa Abdullah, he commenced his Ansaar Pure Sufi ministry for the Nubians in Brooklyn in 1967. In 1969, the group came to be known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews or Nubian Hebrew Mission.
After York returned from a pilgrimage to Egypt, the group assumed the name Jazzir Abba, and then the Ansaaru Allah Community in 1970. By 1985, York became known for his miracle-performance. York was convicted for obtaining a passport with an erroneous birth certificate in 1988.
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