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Talawa Adodo, Ph.D. | Africanity, Language & Global Africa
Talawa Adodo, Ph.D. | Africanity, Language & Global Africa Okunini Talawa Adodo 21 Views • 7 days ago

How do language, culture, history, and African-centered ways of knowing help us understand the connections among African people across time and geography?

In this UWP Scholar Spotlight, contributing scholar Talawa Adodo, Ph.D. discusses his contribution to Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.

Dr. Adodo’s scholarship engages African civilizations, African and Afro-Caribbean languages, Africology, cultural continuity, and questions of African identity across time and space. His contribution to Transcendental Africanity enters the volume’s larger conversation about Africanity, Global Africa, cultural memory, identity, language, Afrophobia, belonging, resistance, and African self-determination.

His work invites us to consider an important question at the heart of the volume:

How do African people understand themselves, their histories, and their connections to one another through African-centered intellectual and cultural frameworks?

Through the UWP Scholar Spotlight Series, readers move beyond the chapter title to encounter the scholars, questions, intellectual traditions, and research behind the scholarship.

ABOUT TRANSCENDENTAL AFRICANITY

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa brings together ten chapters by nine scholars examining the enduring connections among Africans and Afro-descendants while confronting the historical and contemporary forces that have produced separation, displacement, and Afrophobia.

The volume creates an interdisciplinary space for thinking about Africanity, identity, culture, language, historical memory, belonging, resistance, sovereignty, and African self-determination while asking what these ideas might mean for the future of Global Africa.

The book offers relevance for African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Africology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Language Studies, and related interdisciplinary fields.

FOR FACULTY, STUDENTS, LIBRARIANS & RESEARCHERS

Dr. Adodo’s Scholar Spotlight provides another pathway into the individual scholarship contained within this interdisciplinary volume.

For faculty, it offers an entry point for classroom discussion and course consideration.

For students and researchers, it introduces questions and concepts that can be interrogated, cited, challenged, and extended.

For librarians, it provides greater visibility into the scholars and intellectual breadth represented within the collection.

📚 BOOK INFORMATION

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa

Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

PREORDERS ARE OPEN NOW.

UWP SCHOLAR SPOTLIGHT SERIES

The UWP Scholar Spotlight Series brings audiences closer to the scholars behind the scholarship.

Through conversations with UWP authors, editors, and edited-volume contributors, the series creates a growing digital archive of the people, ideas, research, and intellectual traditions advancing Black scholarship and interdisciplinary inquiry.

For contributors to edited volumes, Scholar Spotlight provides dedicated visibility for their individual scholarship, connecting their contribution to the larger intellectual conversation of the book while extending the discoverability and scholarly life of their work beyond the printed page.

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Link Up Podcast — Ep 13 | Ft Ɛna Njideka Karmo (Wombmanhood, Fawohodiesua & Repatriation)
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⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 13 | Ft Ɛna Njideka Karmo (Wombmanhood, Fawohodiesua & Repatriation)
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, we Link Up with Ɛna Njideka Karmo, a Blacktastic educator, warrior scholar, mother and builder whose work centers Wombmanhood, Black-centered education, and the journey back home to Abibiman. Ɛna Njideka takes us through her path from the Midwest in the snakkkes, to her educational travels, and the Black study that helped sharpen her sense of self, purpose, and service.

We discuss the development of Fawohodiesua, her work teaching young sisters into Wombmanhood, the need for rites of passage, Motherland Immersion, livit, and the importance of preparing our young people mentally, spiritually, and physically for who they are. The conversation also answers why repatriation requires more than talk — it requires an exit plan, a village, and institutions strong enough to raise the next generation Black to Black.

This is a conversation about Wombmanhood, Fawohodiesua, repatriation, ancestral guidance, and the work required to build the educational and cultural foundations our daughters and future generations deserve.

If you would like to support the ongoing BlackPowerful work discussed, feel free to reach out to Ɛna Njideka Karmo:
www.fawohodiesua.com / fawohodiesua@gmail.com

Link to Video Recording SSS #60 UNBLOCKING FAMILY ROADBLOCKS TO LIBERATION!
https://www.abibitumi.com/prod....uct/roadblocks/?kmt=

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

Link Up Podcast — Ep 12 | Ft Agya Kwadwo and Mama Kenya (Love, Land & Legacy)
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⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 12 | Ft Agya Kwadwo and Mama Kenya (Love, Land & Legacy)
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, Agya Kwadwo comes back as Link Up’s first returning guest, this time with Mama Kenya — the “air under his wings” — to tell the fuller story behind the work, the balance, and the family foundation that has helped shape their path. They bring us through their 31 years journey of love, family, consciousness, and return.

We discuss Agya Kwadwo’s New Jersey upbringing, Mama Kenya’s roots in Newport News, Virginia, their Hampton University love story, their marriage on Hampton’s campus, military life, raising children, and the powerful role of Know Thyself Bookstore in Tacoma as a community space that deepened their consciousness. The conversation also moves through Agya Kwadwo’s first trip to Ghana, the spiritual connection to his great-grandmother, buying land for generations yet unborn, joining the xmnw Medjay Community, Mama Kenya preparing for her first Sankɔfa Journey, and the legacy they are building so their children and future generations have an ancestral option to return, grow, and live as whole Black people.

This is a conversation about raised consciousness becoming raised behavior, Black love as institution, and the work required to bring the whole family Black home.

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

Link Up Podcast — Ep 11 (part 1) | Ft Akosua Kambon and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon (Youth in A
Link Up Podcast — Ep 11 (part 1) | Ft Akosua Kambon and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon (Youth in A Kwento xpr 68 Views • 2 months ago

⁣Link Up Podcast — Ep 11 (part 1) | Ft Akosua Kambon and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon (Youth in Action, Abibitumi 20, Upcoming Book)
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.

In this episode, we Link Up for a special two-for-one Episode 11 Part 1 featuring Akosua Kambon and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon. We begin with Akosua, as she shares the Blacktastic work she has already started building through her Twi teaching show "Akosua & Afia Agorɔ", popcorn making videos "Akosua’s Crunchy Creations", and her interests in fashion, baking, singing, dancing and so much more. We discuss her recent experience on the Sankɔfa Journey 2025, including the Abibitumi Conference, and her first plane ride to Burkina Faso. Her section is a living reminder that Black children do not have to wait until adulthood to use their talents towards contributing to building Abibifahodie (Black Liberation).

We then Link Up with Akosua's Agya, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon for the beginning of a two-part discussion. In this first portion we cover the inspiration behind building Abibitumi and the 20-year journey of development, the move from Abibitumi Kasa as Black Power Language into a broader all-Black ecosystem, and the work of turning a Black digital space into a Black physical model through Abibitumi headquarters and the xmnw Medjay Community. The conversation also moves through his upcoming book, "The Construction of Black Civilization, Vol. 1", Mdw Ntr, primary source research, and what it means to stop treating Black Power as theory and start building it in every area of human activity.

This is a conversation about raised consciousness becoming raised behavior, Black love as institution, and the work required to bring the whole family Black home.

Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!

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