AFRIKAN CENTERED EDUCATION DVDS
Intelligent Afrikans can see that the western system of education is doing exactly what it was designed to do. It is fulfilling its mission for the culture which created it. It is destroying our children's minds, more and more with each generation. It is killing their curiosity and will to think. As far as we are concerned, the western educational system is no more than another form of child molestation. It destroys minds and breaks spirits by corrupting our children's natural curiosity with perverted, abnormal cultural imperatives. And it violates their intellectual sensibilities with lies about themselves and others. From the destruction of the "Afrikan Schools" established by those ancestors who knew that those schools handed down by Europeans would and could not teach our children about their power to the tracking of Afrikan students in so-called integrated schools and the whitening of colleges and universities with historically majority Afrikan enrollments, the Western educational system has consistently found ways to fulfill its mission of diseducating and disempowering our children. This lecture is an in-depth analysis of this condition. $20
It is in the tradition of Afrikan education to be practical in the acquisition of spiritual (referring to divinity of self), mental (intellectual) and physical (technical/mechanical) skills. In Afrikan education, these skills (the spiritual, intellectual and physical qualities) required for an effective and mission/community oriented working adulthood, i.e., for becoming a person, were all taught as the one which they are. They were not seen as separable. They were not conceived of as in a compartmentalized way. These humanizing, character building tools were learned as one, so they would be internalized as one, so they would be acted on as one. If mental work cannot be connected to (is not seen as necessarily and naturally intricately intertwined with) the care and cultivation of land and other resources, and if physical work cannot be connected to (is not seen as necessarily and naturally intricately intertwined with) the arts and sciences, the two cannot become one revolutionary force. And, if both of these cannot be inextricably connected to spirit, they cannot transform a people or empower them within their traditions. In educating our children, we must realize that if Afrikan education cannot be practically applied to solve our problems (improve the quality of Afrikan life) and elevate our consciousness as a people, then it is useless. Unchecked, in time it becomes no more than worthless, dysfunctional ritual, a meaningless intellectualizing in service to others. $20
VOL.III: RECONCEPTUALIZING AFRIKAN CENTERED EDUCATION: SANKOFAN EDUCATION
Vision is the ability to see the future through the past. Therefore, an Afrikan centered education requires the creation of effective Afrikan schools for our children because the logic of our historical relationship with Europeans calls for us to think as critically as we possibly can about the cultural and social environment our children develop in. Just as you can never truly be Afrikan in a European reality, you cannot introduce Afrikan ways of thinking through implementing Afrikan teaching styles without changing the cultural and social context in which they are introduced. Changing the cultural environment automatically changes the social environment. In an ordered setting, they are inseparable. So, any nationbuilding effort that is directed toward the minds of our children must not only analyze the educational setting but it must also seriously consider the cultural and social environment to which the children will return and live out most of their time once leaving the classroom. The classroom setting, as well as the home, neighborhood and places our children frequent must also be transformed in order to fully and permanently make the Afrikan way the natural choice in thought and behavior for them. You cannot teach a child to be Afrikan in an isolated, even though highly enriching, setting and then turn them loose in this world and expect them to practice Afrikan traditions as if they were still safely there. They know where they are. $20
VOL.IV: RECONCEPTUALIZING AFRIKAN CENTERED EDUCATION: RITES, PRIESTHOODS & PROGRAMS
John Henrik Clarke explained in no uncertain terms what immediate steps we need to take to redefine and insure our future. In that this effort must be an intergenerational venture, it is of utmost importance that the individual talents of Afrikan youth must be identified, tapped into and allowed to flourish into mature skills that will decisively benefit their people. Clarke called upon committed, Afrikan centered adults to develop what he called a "priesthood," an exclusive, highly personalized, monastic institution that will discipline and hone our children for their forthcoming battles with an ever-evolving enemy. He said, based on his familiarity with the wisdom of the ages and that well-learned historical lesson that freedom is something that must be constantly battled for, that our children need to be directed by those of us who know (and are willing to learn) of this battle and have woven a warrior's view into their purpose as Afrikans. Our children's definition of nationbuilding cannot be left to chance in this white supremacist, anti-Afrikan, mentacidal cultural wasteland. Their instruction and preparation has to be a concerted effort full of Afrikan intent. Our children need a controlled and directed guiding hand from historically informed adults who have nothing less than their best interests at heart. $20
VOL.V: THE AKOBEN INSTITUTE EXPERIENCE
Yaa & Mwalimu are the cofounders and co-directors of Akoben Institute, a Full-Time and After School Afrikan Centered Home School Program in Atlanta, GA. They opened the Institute after ending over a decade of college teaching to homeschool their, then, seventh grade daughter Adwoa Foluke. It became a formal institution after several of Adwoa's classmates' parents impressed on the Baruti's a desire to include their children as students. There was no question that this dream would have eventually happened anyway, but conditions in the community and the needs of our children often determine when a truly revolutionary vision must be enacted. In the working tradition of education as a well rounded, practical adventure, Akoben Institute offers not only typical academic courses, but students are also able to test their genius at chess, carpentry, masonry and other "technical" skills as a normal part of the curriculum. Now, adult education classes and workshops, locally and over the internet are taught at the Institute. This is their story. $20
VOL.VI: HOMESCHOOLING SOLUTIONS/Q&A
In this final class session on Afrikan centered education, Yaa & Mwalimu answer questions relative to homeschooling and offer solutions to the problems posed by adults either considering or actually in the process of home schooling of our children. $20
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