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Please register and support the new classes at Abibitumi Kasa! You won't want to miss the chance to learn and connect with other Afrikans worldwide committed to reAfrikanization and dewhitenization!
Conversational Twi (Ghana) Language Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/twiclass.html
Conversational Yoruba (Nigeria) Language Online !
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/yorubaclass.html
Conversational Wolof (Senegal and Gambia) Language Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/wolof.html
Medew Netcher (Hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt) Language and Culture Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/mdwntr.htm
Balogun Abeegunde's Afrikan Martial Arts Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/balogun.htm
To view the font correctly, download it from here: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/video-tutorials-how-abibitumi-kasa/34086-tutorial-akali-font-instructions-use.html
You can also view the instructional video to see how to install the font (all PCs) and the recorder software (if you are running XP).
Not sure if you will attend class?
Well, feel free to sit in on your first class this week free. You can choose between Twi (Monday 7PM EST), Yoruba (Tuesday 7 PM EST) and Wolof (Saturday 6PM EST).
Also, ask about our group rates (3-5 people get 10% off per person; 5-7 people get 20% off; 7-10 people get 30% off), per class rates ($25 for the 2 hour class) and individual one-on-one tutorials ($25 per half hour).
Enjoy and I look forward to seeing you and the Afrikan family in class!
Obadele Kambon
Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Language Institute
Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Liberation Institute
Hello O.K.K, this is a very interesting site, I don't just the hear sounds of the spirits here , I also feel plleasure in the knowing of my roots beginning here, there are many things to learn and understand. Oh' Father, I don't understand , your plans says you are preparing to come and be with your people and the submitters, of the land as they become rightous and find holiness and become it, if this is so, oh where is it that tthe Gentiles are trying to Go? Their trying to fly how into your sky. When you began to consume I, pray that I'm not in that Doom!
My goodness, this site is so full with info! I am definitely interested in registering for the language classes in the near future, as well as linking with like minds here in the network. Many blessings to you and everyone who contributes to this valuable resource....
Yes my brother! The MAAT experience has heavily influenced my music. Would love to make it out to Ghana sometime. It has been a life long dream to make it to the mother land. All the best for you and the community out there.
Things have been going well for me. Thanks for circulating that article. Could not make the 3-hr intensive Yoruba class this time round, but I am hopeful to make the next one. I'm gonna make to Ghana too!!! Being based there must be just blacknificent for you!
Obadele, Maaha, Woho te sen? I am glad you have been able to set up regular internet access. I can't tell you enough, how happy I was that you and your family were able to make my outdooring. I will be sharing pictures from the outdooring and the Durba that I had in Larteh shortly.
Posted the link for this article on the forum page some days back.. But I thought I would post the entire article to you. Perhaps you will be moved to inform this writer who has lamentably chosen to remain in the dark.
Ife.
Slavery was good for the black man
Michael Dingwall
Saturday, August 09, 2008
As we celebrate emancipation and independence, we are being reminded of the horrors of slavery. According to our leaders, academics and others, slavery was the worst institution ever created. However, while it is popular for most to agree with this claim, I beg to disagree. Indeed, contrary to the belief that slavery was bad for us blacks, I believe that slavery was good for us.
Have we ever stopped to consider where we black people, especially those of us in the West, would be right now if it weren't for the Atlantic Slave Trade? What state do you think black Africa would be in today? Do you think that we would have been better off without slavery? I don't think so!
When the Europeans went to Africa to buy slaves, what did they find? They found a society and people vastly inferior to theirs. While the Europeans had emerged from their feudal practices, our ancestors in Africa, for the most part, had not developed for many centuries. We did not understand the concept of nation or government. Science and technology (and innovations in these areas) were non-existent in black Africa of the 15th and 16th centuries. Indeed, as a people, we had no sense of self-identity. In many respects, we were uncivilised.
Slavery was our most important contact with modernity. It is through this "most heinous system ever created" that we blacks were able to understand some of the principles of global trade. Our ancestors were introduced to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade between Europe, Africa and the West Indies. Black Africa's part in the trade was the importation of European technology and the export of slaves. The importation of European technology was important - even though the Africans did not appreciate this importance at first. The export of slaves was also very important, especially for us in the West.
As time went on, we blacks, both in Africa and especially in the Caribbean were, in many ways, being Europeanised and thus civilised. We adopted several aspects of their culture - their systems of government, their technologies, their sense of order and their languages. In doing this, we discarded those aspects of our culture that clearly placed us at a disadvantage - like our lack of sense of self, loyalty to the tribe and our non-participation in modern technology.
Although not a believer in any god myself, the Christianity that came with slavery and European control would be of immense value to us black people. Back in Africa, we were preoccupied with the worship of animals, trees, spirits of the dead - even stones. These primitive religions that we were practising ensured that our ancestors in Africa were backward. The relatively superior Christianity, with its greater sense of order and responsibility would help, in many ways, to pull the black man out of the Stone Age. This could only have happened with slavery.
Our relatively stable societies today, especially in the West, are testaments to the benefits of slavery. While it is true that black Africa has, for the most part, squandered the opportunities that slavery offered in the past, the positive influence of European civilisation cannot be denied. The black nation states of Africa and the Caribbean have given black people a sense of nation, a sense of identity, a sense of order and a sense of purpose - things we never had before.
While we continue to demonstrate our inferiority in the areas of science and technology, through centuries of being exposed to Europe on account of slavery, we blacks are now aware of the need for us to start excelling in these areas.
Those of us who continue to see the millions of blacks who died crossing the Atlantic and the displacement of what we had in Africa as proof that slavery was a bad institution don't understand the mechanics of human development and evolution. Similar processes had to be endured by countless peoples thoughout history. The development of the human race has always involved the need for change. Slavery was one such means, and like it or not, we blacks are the beneficiaries. It is not for us today to judge the means through which societies have changed in the past.
We blacks were changed, for the better, I might add, on account of slavery. We are a better race today because our ancestors went though slavery. The millions of lives lost were not lost in vain. The Europeans proclaimed the need for us to be civilised through slavery and though this may be hard to understand, they were right. Indeed, based on what is happening in black Africa today - slavery for us in the West was, in many respects, our salvation.
Michael Dingwall is a freelance writer.
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
How do I say that is one gorgeous baby girl who is growing very fast? It is beautiful to see an African child encircled in soooo much love such as you, your Queen and your parents are wrapping around her. Thanks for sharing your photos of sheer JOY, LOVE and BEAUTY.
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Please register and support the new classes at Abibitumi Kasa! You won't want to miss the chance to learn and connect with other Afrikans worldwide committed to reAfrikanization and dewhitenization!
Conversational Twi (Ghana) Language Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/twiclass.html
Conversational Yoruba (Nigeria) Language Online !
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/yorubaclass.html
Conversational Wolof (Senegal and Gambia) Language Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/wolof.html
Medew Netcher (Hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt) Language and Culture Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/mdwntr.htm
Balogun Abeegunde's Afrikan Martial Arts Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/balogun.htm
Mwalimu Baruti Eureason Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/baruti.htm
Mwamilu Baruti Afrikan Centered Sociology Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/baruti.htm
Kentake Mut Merimut Akoko Nan Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/kentake.htm
Afrikan Centered Mathematics Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/akhu.htm
Professor Griff: Psychological Covert War on Hip-Hop Online!
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/griff.htm
Ogechi Amadi Holistic Child Development Online!
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I greet you, Afrikan, on behalf of the AKALI family!
For those of you anxious to get a jump start on Monday or Tuesday's class, you now have the ability to download the document for the 1st class here:
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/twi.pdf
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/yoruba.pdf
To view the font correctly, download it from here: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/video-tutorials-how-abibitumi-kasa/34086-tutorial-akali-font-instructions-use.html
You can also view the instructional video to see how to install the font (all PCs) and the recorder software (if you are running XP).
Not sure if you will attend class?
Well, feel free to sit in on your first class this week free. You can choose between Twi (Monday 7PM EST), Yoruba (Tuesday 7 PM EST) and Wolof (Saturday 6PM EST).
Also, ask about our group rates (3-5 people get 10% off per person; 5-7 people get 20% off; 7-10 people get 30% off), per class rates ($25 for the 2 hour class) and individual one-on-one tutorials ($25 per half hour).
Enjoy and I look forward to seeing you and the Afrikan family in class!
Obadele Kambon
Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Language Institute
Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Liberation Institute
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qmk
Posted the link for this article on the forum page some days back.. But I thought I would post the entire article to you. Perhaps you will be moved to inform this writer who has lamentably chosen to remain in the dark.
Ife.
Slavery was good for the black man
Michael Dingwall
Saturday, August 09, 2008
As we celebrate emancipation and independence, we are being reminded of the horrors of slavery. According to our leaders, academics and others, slavery was the worst institution ever created. However, while it is popular for most to agree with this claim, I beg to disagree. Indeed, contrary to the belief that slavery was bad for us blacks, I believe that slavery was good for us.
Have we ever stopped to consider where we black people, especially those of us in the West, would be right now if it weren't for the Atlantic Slave Trade? What state do you think black Africa would be in today? Do you think that we would have been better off without slavery? I don't think so!
When the Europeans went to Africa to buy slaves, what did they find? They found a society and people vastly inferior to theirs. While the Europeans had emerged from their feudal practices, our ancestors in Africa, for the most part, had not developed for many centuries. We did not understand the concept of nation or government. Science and technology (and innovations in these areas) were non-existent in black Africa of the 15th and 16th centuries. Indeed, as a people, we had no sense of self-identity. In many respects, we were uncivilised.
Slavery was our most important contact with modernity. It is through this "most heinous system ever created" that we blacks were able to understand some of the principles of global trade. Our ancestors were introduced to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade between Europe, Africa and the West Indies. Black Africa's part in the trade was the importation of European technology and the export of slaves. The importation of European technology was important - even though the Africans did not appreciate this importance at first. The export of slaves was also very important, especially for us in the West.
As time went on, we blacks, both in Africa and especially in the Caribbean were, in many ways, being Europeanised and thus civilised. We adopted several aspects of their culture - their systems of government, their technologies, their sense of order and their languages. In doing this, we discarded those aspects of our culture that clearly placed us at a disadvantage - like our lack of sense of self, loyalty to the tribe and our non-participation in modern technology.
Although not a believer in any god myself, the Christianity that came with slavery and European control would be of immense value to us black people. Back in Africa, we were preoccupied with the worship of animals, trees, spirits of the dead - even stones. These primitive religions that we were practising ensured that our ancestors in Africa were backward. The relatively superior Christianity, with its greater sense of order and responsibility would help, in many ways, to pull the black man out of the Stone Age. This could only have happened with slavery.
Our relatively stable societies today, especially in the West, are testaments to the benefits of slavery. While it is true that black Africa has, for the most part, squandered the opportunities that slavery offered in the past, the positive influence of European civilisation cannot be denied. The black nation states of Africa and the Caribbean have given black people a sense of nation, a sense of identity, a sense of order and a sense of purpose - things we never had before.
While we continue to demonstrate our inferiority in the areas of science and technology, through centuries of being exposed to Europe on account of slavery, we blacks are now aware of the need for us to start excelling in these areas.
Those of us who continue to see the millions of blacks who died crossing the Atlantic and the displacement of what we had in Africa as proof that slavery was a bad institution don't understand the mechanics of human development and evolution. Similar processes had to be endured by countless peoples thoughout history. The development of the human race has always involved the need for change. Slavery was one such means, and like it or not, we blacks are the beneficiaries. It is not for us today to judge the means through which societies have changed in the past.
We blacks were changed, for the better, I might add, on account of slavery. We are a better race today because our ancestors went though slavery. The millions of lives lost were not lost in vain. The Europeans proclaimed the need for us to be civilised through slavery and though this may be hard to understand, they were right. Indeed, based on what is happening in black Africa today - slavery for us in the West was, in many respects, our salvation.
Michael Dingwall is a freelance writer.
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
One Love!
Kamal
How do I say that is one gorgeous baby girl who is growing very fast? It is beautiful to see an African child encircled in soooo much love such as you, your Queen and your parents are wrapping around her. Thanks for sharing your photos of sheer JOY, LOVE and BEAUTY.
one love rakiba
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