In this powerful conversation, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon discusses language, names, identity, Kmt, mdw nTr, Black knowledge systems, and the deeper meaning embedded in time, clothing, place, ancestry, and everyday life.
He challenges the assumption that knowledge only lives in books, libraries, and formal institutions, showing instead that Black wisdom is embodied in names, proverbs, songs, greetings, writing systems, ancestral practice, architecture, cosmology, and the natural world. From the importance of indigenous names to the Black origins of writing and timekeeping, this discussion opens up a deeper way of understanding who we are and what we must recover.
Topics include:
Language as a foundation of identity

Names as direction, definition, and destiny

Why “Africa,” “Europe,” and “the West” must be questioned

mdw nTr and the sacred relationship between writing and nature

Kmt as the Land of Black People

Ancestral continuity and transformation

Black concepts of time beyond clocks and capitalism

The importance of learning without hostile interpreters

Why what we know of ourselves depends on who taught us
This is a necessary discussion for anyone serious about Black knowledge, Black identity, Abibitumi ‘Black Power,’ and Abibifahodie ‘Black Liberation.’

The Woman King (2022) is a mammoth effort for a Hollywood movie which attempts to tell the tale of the Agojie/Mino fighters of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the early 19th century. Onuora will be discussing the history behind the film and the depiction of the film's characters. CashApp: £OnuoraAbuahPaypal Donation: paypal.me/OnuoraAbuah

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We Are Back from GHANA, Feedback from the pilgrimage and updates from the Continent

⁣Mhenga Malcolm X : Ford Hall Forum [1963]

Academic Writing 2: Creating a Research Space

⁣Dr. Obadele Kambon: Africanisms in Contemporary English

A focus on Neocolonialism and the foreign intervention of erstwhile colonial leaders in African countries was our focus today on #VillageSquareAfrica. Sulaiman Aledeh was joined by the executive director, Centre for Public Accountability, Olufemi Lawson and Public affairs analyst, Jide Ojo.

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Afrika Wassa · Vieux Diop

Afrika Wassa

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From the US National Archives.
Documents the early, turbulent years of OEO'S experiment in police-community relations in Washington, DC R.1: Police and citizens express their attitudes toward each other. A citizens committee is appointed by the D.C. government, but dissension ensues over control of the program. Project director, Robert Shallow addresses the group; community leader Marion Barry urges citizen control, A pilot precinct is finally selected. R. 2: Police engage in training sessions, and community leaders struggle to replace the committee with elected representatives. A citizens' board is elected and the white project leader is replaced by a black official, Fred Lander. R. 3: Dissension between OEO and the community continues, but several programs including citizen riders, an emergency center, local police recruiting and an escort service, get underway. The board continues to struggle, and the program is refunded. At the films close, a small boy expresses his bitterness towards the police."

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The Afrikan Cultural Basis of Afrikan Development

Texts:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa -Chapter 1 [Walter Rodney]
Education As Cultural Imperialism [Martin Carnoy]
Economic Development [Michael Todaro]
The Development of the Black Child [Amos N. Wilson]
Black Power [Amos N. Wilson]
Cultural Liberation Vital for our Economic Development [Joseph Mihangwa - The Mirror Digest Feb 6-12, 2012]
The Stern Realities on African Development [Joseph Mihangwa - The Mirror Digest Aug 24-30, 2012]
Growing Economic Inequality Risks to Tear Nation Apart [Mboneko Munyaga - Daily News Aug 25, 2012]
Tanzania/SA Paradigm: Poverty and Plenty? [Makwaia wa Kuhenga - Daily News July 6, 2012]


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi
Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika


Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.

⁣MK Party Liberation slogans

Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This is best exemplified in his most famous novel "Things Fall Apart," one of the first African novels written in English to achieve national acclaim. Set in the 1890s, the novel deals with the impact of British colonialism on the traditional Igbo society in Nigeria. Published in 1958 -- just two years before the end of a century of British rule in Nigeria -- the novel celebrated its 50th anniversary of publication in 2008. "An Evening with Chinua Achebe" featured the author reading from his celebrated work.

⁣Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.