The Eternal Year of African People by Authens Asantewaa Oppong Wadie Ed.D (Editor)
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The Eternal Year of African People is an edited volume that addresses the United Nations designations of the year 2009, as the International Year of African People. The UN designation would be updated in 2011 to the International Decade of African people. Herein, scholars and community activist/researchers have offered their insights on Education, Culture, Arts, Political Science, Language and Literature, Spirituality, Art, film and music. This comprehensive volume allows us to hear the unfiltered Voice of African people at the beginning of the 21st century.
The Table of Contents
Preface i
Introduction iii
Section 1: Education
1. Healing the Rhetoric of Deception: Black Studies and the
Re-imagination of Human Liberation By Dr. Bart McSwine 01
2. Nyansapo (The Wisdom Knot): An Introduction to
African Holistic Pedagogy by Dr. Authens Asantewaa Oppong Wadie 11
3. The Mathematical Structure of the Whole:
Transforming the Human Condition by Dr. Grant D. Venerable 25
4. On the Wings of Atlanta: Meaning and Dualism in DuBois,
Morrison and the Historically Black Liberal Arts Education
by Dr. Grant D. Venerable 46
5. Africana Studies, African Centered Knowledge Production
and the Essentiality of the African Worldview: Disciplinary Perspective,
Research Methodology and Pedagogical Practice
By Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll 70
Section 2: Political Science
6. Diasporan Indigenous Africans: Reclaiming, Returning and Resurrecting by NswtMwt Dr. Chenzira D. Kahina 83
7. U.S. Global Justice and Restitution: A Summation of an
Extended Research Document Originally shared with
President Obama by NswNeb KaRa Herishetapaheru 93
8. Robert Charles, the Chasm & Ida Wells-Barnett by Kwasi Anokye 99
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9. Coltan, the Congo and World Economy by Diarra Allen 117
10. On Stemming the Tide of 500 Years of Humanicide:
Re-Envisioning Africana Emancipatory Life Theory
by Dr. Hunter Adams 126
Section 3: Language & Literature
11. The Ancient Egyptian Language: A Pathway to Africa
by Dr. Josef Ben Levi 175
12. Eternal Conjugations: Color-Coded Icons in Brazilian Cordel
literature by Patri Fox 194
13. No Boundaries (poem) by Keropetse Kostisile 224
14. For Sterling Plump (poem) by Keropetse Kostisile 225
15. No Serenity Here (poem) by Keropetse Kostisile 226
Section 4: Culture and the Arts
16. Tracing Back Hip Hop’s Roots to African Culture by Neil Paul 229
17. The Memory Keeper Speaks by Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde 233
18. An Interview with Photo Journalist Chester Higgins Jr.
by Pearl Sharpe 244
19. Pushkin in America by Robert Coles 255
20. African Aesthetics as Embodied in the Visual
Art of Yoruba Culture by Oyekunle Ofebemi 260
21. Who Would Curse America by Robert Coles 280
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22. We Still Write Love Poems by S. Pearl Sharpe 282
23. Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni 284
Section 5: Spirituality
24. Reflections on the Meaning and Significance of the Zulu
Personal Declarations by Dr. Bart McSwine 286
24. African Spiritual Thought about Good and Evil:
Kinship and Biblical Eschatology by Dr. John Porter 299
26. Ritual: The Importance of Water in the Worldview of the
Akan and Other Africans by Kwado Oppong Wadie 321
27. Maat as Liberatory Praxis by Dr. Kamau Rashid 341
Section 6: Visual Art Submissions
28. Kalimba by Angela Briggs 359
29. Listen To My Sisters by Angela Briggs 361
30. Najuma by Angela Briggs 362
Section 7: About the CD
31. Belly of the Beast, My Song (Soundtrack) by Corey Harris 364
32. Kumina (Soundtrack) by S. Vickie Casanova 367
