⁣[Ɔfa 1] Abibifahodie Adesuabea - 14 Ɔbɛnem 2017

[Ɔfa 2] Abibifahodie Adesuabea 28 Ɔbɛnem 2017

Abibifahodie Adesuabea 28 Ɔbɛnem 2017

[ƆFA 3] Abibifahodie Adesuabea - 14 Ogyefuo 2017

[ƆFA 1] Abibifahodie Adesuabea - 14 Ogyefuo 2017

Performed by Abibitumi Kasa's official cheerleader: Ama Kambon

Senyiwaa dedende, Senyiwaa

Thank you for joining #BuildingPower today.

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.