Obadele Kambon

I've had the rLG L8 Android-Based smartphone for about 2 weeks now and I've gotten a lot of usage out of it so far.

To start off I'd recommend it without reservation.

I'm upgrading from two Blackberry bold 9000's that I got at Kwame Nkrumah circle that I've used for the past 2-3 years so it's like a leap through a portal in time into the future as far as software is concerned.

The phone runs Android Froyo 2.2. I wanted to get the L9 which runs ICS but they ...

Something that I don't think is talked about much is how damaging it may be at times to meet one's heroes, or at least those who one looks up to and find them, in great measure, to be inconsistent with what their rhetorical message is/was.

I recall a great and fiery orator wanted to speak on campus of where I went to undergrad. Having spoken at my parents bookstore, he wanted to meet with me and a couple of other brothers about arranging to make it happen.

Now the evening ...

Originally Posted by Obadele Kambon

When we speak our own languages, if you are Black then you are Afrikan. Return to the source and let the debate end:

in five Afrikan languages I know the concept Afrikan and Black are the same thing...is this a useful way of looking at things?

Akan: Abibifoͻ - Afrikan a-prefix added for person/agent | bibi-Black | fo-people

Also found in Abibiman - Afrika (literally land of the Blacks) man - nation/land

Yoruba: Adúláwò - Afrikan a-prefix added

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Originally Posted by Obadele Kambon

Akan (Twi)
pa ky¢w - to ask for forgiveness (lit. to take one’s hat off to someone)
pa - to wipe off, to remove something from the top of a surface
ky¢w - hat
ky¢wpa- the act of taking one's hat to someone else
fa ky¢ - to forgive (lit to take and give to someone as a gift. For free, without recompensing)
tua ka – literally to pay a debt, used to say to avenge or to repay someone for a transgression
akatua – the act/process of paying debts
t¡ were

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Originally Posted by Obadele Kambon

Something I've noticed is a general lack of understanding between continental and diasporan Afrikans on very rudimentary levels especially on initial contact. While I can list exceptions to this, I'll write generally for the sake of the discussion.

For many Afrikans in the diaspora, it seems unbelievable to come to Afrika and to meet continental Afrikans who may have been born without any Afrikan name whatsoever. Like Harry Sawyer. Or to meet many who have never practiced any traditional

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