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Jambo Afrikan Family,

A lot going on this Month.. Please check events attached and I look forward to seeing yall at different conferences.

One of the Most Important Books To Read : Chancellor Williams' Destruction of Black Civilization

"Culture is the totality of values, beliefs, and actions that characterize a people. Culture consists of the behavioral patterns, symbols, institutions, and values of a society, and it is unique to that society. It is the spiritual, ideational, and material composite that distinguishes one society from another . It shapes and is in turn shaped by the events in a realm of the spiritual, ideational and material. All inquiry and solution, truth and beauty, tradition and purity, meaning and reality are culturally relative. There are no culture-free or values-free human endeavors. Culture is not static phenomenon. Culture continually evolves as a society evolves and develops. Culture is that composite of socially and historically determined behaviors that nourishes and thereby defines the intellectual and spiritual parameters within which the human individual develops and exists."
- K.A Akoto (p.13 Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered Education)

“Color me human do not separate me’ is the shallow cry of those bent on perpetuating a mythical “colorless” yet firmly European orientation; as if to suggest that claiming, respecting, and using one’s indigenous traditions is anti-human.” Dr. Asa Hilliard. African Power p.5

“Our strategy should be not only to confront the empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness –and our ability to tell our own stories.. Stories that are different from the one’s we’re being brainwashed to believe.”

Confronting Empire

Arundhati Roy

Porto Alegre , Brazil

What would happen if we taught our children one Afrikan Folktale a day and turned off the television: The creation of Afrikan morals, values, and a return to our traditions.
African Folktales
http://www..canteach.ca/elementary/africa.html
African Folk Tales, Introduction
Folktales - Folk Tales from West Africa

Check out this website: The American Agenda: Global Racism/White Supremacy and World Domination.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/