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S2 Ep. 24 Professor James Small: Scholar, Lecturer, Activist "A New Class is in Session" Baka Omubo 60 Views • 4 years ago

Professor James Small is a scholar activist, dynamic speaker, organizational
consultant. His accolades include:
-CEO of Sanaa Lodge Enterprise, Ghana, Ltd.,
-CEO & President, African-American Management Company, Ghana, Ltd.;
-International Vice President, Organization of Afro-American Unity (O.A.A.U.),
-Priest of Oya, Babalorisha, Ifa Tradition, and
-Past President of the Eastern Region of the Association for the study of Classical African Civilization (ASCAC).

Prof. James Small studies extensively with Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef A. A. ben Jochannan, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Asa Hilliard,
Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Amos Wilson and Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, just to name a few.

For eleven years Prof. Small served as principal bodyguard to the late Ella L. Collins, the sister of Malcolm X, the then President of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (O.A.A.U.) and was the Imam of Muslim Mosque Inc. (founded by Malcolm X). Between the years of 1966 and 1980, Prof. Small held membership in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.), the N.A.A.C.P,
and O.A.A.U. During this period Prof. Small had the opportunity to interact with such historical giants as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Kwame Ture, H. Rap Brown of S.N.C.C, Eldridge Cleaver, Zaid Shakur, and Lumumba Shakur of the Black Panther Party (B.P.P.) in which he served as a liaison between the B.P.P. and the O.A.A.U.

Much of his expertise is found in African-American history and culture, Malcolm X, African traditional religions and the love for his people. Prof. Small taught for fifteen years at the City University of New York, including thirteen years at the City College of New York's Black Studies Department where he taught courses on Pan-Africanism, Malcolm X, and on comparative African religions, which included several African spiritual systems, titled, "African Religion and Survival"; and two years at New York City Technical College teaching the course, African Folklore & Religion, both in the Diaspora and in Africa.

Prof. James Small has traveled extensively lecturing at churches, conventions, seminars, workshops, colleges, and universities, throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. His informative, eye-opening and dynamic presentations have caused him to be recognized as one of the most distinguished activist scholar of our time. Prof. Small is also currently conducting online courses on African Spirituality covering the Yoruba Ifa Tradition, the Akan spiritual system, Voodou/Vodun and Ancient Egyptian sacred science. He is also
leading educational & cultural pilgrimage/tours throughout Africa, Haiti and the United States.

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King Leopold II & the Congo Free State (1885-1908) Kwabena Ofori Osei 55 Views • 4 years ago

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo.
Because he ruled the state personally, he had total control of its resources and had to answer to no one.

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Sources:

Palmer, R.R. Joel Colton and Lloyd Kramer, A History of Europe in the Modern World. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.

Robinson, James L. “November 15, 1908. Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II.” In Great Events from History, eds. Carl Bankston Pasadena. Calif: Salem Press, 2009.

Rutz, Michael A. King Leopold’s Congo and the “Scramble for Africa” (Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2018.

Spaas, Lieve. “Leopold II.” In A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires, eds. Prem Poddar, Rajeev S. Patke and Lars Jensen. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2011.

Hochschild, Adam King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Pan Macmillan, 1998.

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By Adam Hochschild

Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980
By Guy Vanthemsche

Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 1
edited by Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

WOW. This is pure EVIL. Kwabena Ofori Osei 29 Views • 4 years ago

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