There is a pattern that runs through the world of Andaras — a geography of energy that becomes clearer the longer you work with these pieces. African Andaras carry Power. Asian Andaras carry Love. American Andaras carry Wisdom. Together, the three form something complete. This is the Power piece of that picture.

Within the African collection, the Bibis are the grandmothers — warm, direct, fiercely loving, and entirely honest. They carry the energy of power reclaimed. Power returned to its rightful owner.

And within the Bibis, there is a category that stops people completely.

The Bi-Colour Bibis.

What makes them different

Every Andara is unique. But the Bi-Colour Bibis are unique in a way that is immediately, visually undeniable.

Where a single-colour piece carries one current of energy — focused, specific, pure — the Bi-Colour pieces carry two or more in conversation. And that conversation is the medicine. Sea green moving into rich shaman brown. Deep forest green anchored in earth. Vivid aqua threaded through with amber and gold. Pale translucence meeting warm opacity.

We call them Bi-Colour because that is the nature of what they are — pieces where more than one world is present, where earth meets water, where sky meets soil, where two forces that might seem separate are revealed as always having been part of the same whole.

In practice, many of these pieces carry not just two colours but three or four — shifting and moving as the light changes, revealing something new each time you look. That is not an inconsistency in the name. It is the truth of what these pieces are. They contain multitudes. They always have.

The Zebra

The totem animal of the Bi-Colour Bibis is the Zebra.

Not black and white as a symbol of opposition. Not contrast for its own sake. The Zebra carries two colours that define each other completely — that cannot exist without each other, that move together as one body through the world. Remove one and you have lost both.

That is the teaching of the Bi-Colour Bibis. The two energies present in each piece are not in competition. They are in relationship. And it is the relationship itself — the place where they meet, where one becomes the other — that holds the most power.

The third step

In the Shaman’s tradition, the journey unfolds in stages.

The first step is awakening — the moment of recognition that there is more to reality than what we have been shown. The second step is initiation — going into the unknown, meeting what is there, being changed by it.

The third step is integration.

This is where the Bi-Colour Bibis live. Not at the beginning of the journey, and not at the end — but at the place where everything that has been learned begins to be lived. Where understanding moves from the mind into the body. Where the inner work becomes outer reality.

That is why these pieces work across all chakras simultaneously — balancing male and female, physical and spiritual, mental and emotional, earth and sky. Not because they are trying to do everything at once, but because integration is by nature a whole-body, whole-being process. Nothing can be left out.

The medicine

The Bi-Colour Bibis are physical in the way all Bibis are — their effects felt in the lungs, in the breath, in the blood and the heart and the third eye. They will expand your breathing. They will call you back to your body. They will ask you to see clearly and trust what you see.

But their particular gift is balance.

Not the stillness of something that has stopped moving — the balance of something in perfect motion. Like the Zebra running. Like two colours meeting without either one losing itself. Like a person who has finally stopped choosing between their power and their tenderness, their certainty and their openness, their rootedness and their capacity to grow.

The Bi-Colour Bibis hold all of it at once. And they will help you do the same.

The range

No two Bi-Colour Bibis are the same. That is not a marketing claim — it is simply true.

Some carry deep, saturated colours that announce themselves immediately. Others reveal their beauty slowly, in different light, from different angles. Some are large and commanding, anchoring a room with their presence. Others are small and concentrated, travelling companions for the work that happens in quiet moments.

Some lean toward the grounding, earthy tones — rich browns and deep forest greens that connect you to the most ancient and primal energy of the African land. Others carry the lighter aqua and sea green tones, bringing water clarity and emotional intelligence into the Bibi power lineage. And some hold all of these at once — shifting between earth and water, depth and light, as you move them in your hands.

Each one is its own piece, with its own character and its own specific work to do. Within the shared lineage of the Bi-Colour Bibis, there is remarkable individuality.

Are they right for you?

The Bi-Colour Bibis are not for the very beginning of the journey. They are for someone who has already done some of the work — who knows something of their own depth, who has begun to reclaim their power, and who is ready for the next layer of integration.

If you are in a season of bringing things together — of making peace between parts of yourself that have felt in conflict, of learning to hold your complexity without apology, of stepping into the fullness of who you are rather than the edited version — the Bi-Colour Bibis are the pieces for this moment.

They are arguably the most visually striking pieces in the entire African collection. They are certainly among the most powerful.

If one is calling to you, that call is worth listening to.

Two colours. One truth. The grandmother is waiting.

Explore our African Bi-colour collection→ [African Bi-Colour Andaras collection] 

To understand African Andaras → read [African Andaras — The Power of the Bibis]