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Today we our guest is T'Shango Mbilishaka. T'Shango uses several traditional African teaching methods he has learned from his numerous trips to Afrika.

Baba T'Shango, as his student affectionately call him, has found the most effective teaching practices, the most effective parenting seminars and the most effective community initiatives are based firmly within a cultural and political context. T'Shango has been featured in Essence Magazine and he was awarded runner up for “Most Outstanding Teacher” of the year in DC charter schools 2013.givers whose children attend local schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). They build power to win systemic change – through new policies and challenging existing ones as part of a movement towards educational and racial justice.

Thank you for making time for this very important conversation.

Yorùbá is a vigesimal (base 20 system) that incorporates mathematical operations such as multiplication, addition and subtraction in the regular names of individual numbers. As such the word for 20, for example is two twenties ogójì. Yorùbá is Ama's L3 and she is becoming proficient in learning how the base 20 system offers a different way of thinking about equations from the base 10 system invented by Afrikans some 30,000 years ago and to which she has been exposed in Akan (Twi) and english.

Ama got used to the idea of solving for X using a game found throughout Afrika called ɔware. It was pretty easy for her to transfer calculation skills learned in the game to working out more complex operations. Ama just turned 8 years old last week.

Ama Kambon learning numbers in Wolof. The number system of Wolof incorporates principles of addition (based on 5 and 10) and multiplication (based on 10)

Both Twi and Mdw Ntr are base 10 systems, so transfer of knowledge (from Twi to Mdw Ntr) makes the task more familiar. We regularly work using Mdw Ntr glyphs for math, but this is the first time we are formally introducing names of numbers in Mdw Ntr as assisted by Dr. Rkhty Amen's excellent text Mejat Wefa writing the glyphs and the MDC transliterations.

Ama Kambon Reading an Ananse Story on the Origin of Life and Death

Iṣẹ́ Ògbùfọ̀ - Live Interpretation (Yorùbá + English)

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