Tamu - Imani (ft. Bled Miki)

Tamu Mazama and Guadeloupean concious artist Bled Miki in a Blacktastic duet

Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku, a renowned Professor of African Philosophy, Ethics and Religion shares some wisdom nuggets to executive students of the Pan-African Leadership Institute (PALI) on African Wisdom for Leaders.

⁣What happens before, during, and after the
process called death? This video gives the answer to this query in the light of
Bukôngo, the Kongo religion, as a divine exact science. It shows that death is
a mere trip from a dream of mortal existence to another dream less material.
Death needs not to be a frightening experience. For, to those who are
enlightened it is a meeting with the kin who are in the beyond.

⁣Nna Chinweizu at the Ancestral Wall 2022

With a closing from Louis Lomax.

From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.

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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (something which is reminiscent of the educational theories of John Ruskin). Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to reassure the white community as to the usefulness of educating black people.

⁣The "BRA FIE" (Bra Fee-Ay) Repatriation Initiative was inspired by the countless African Ancestors who were kidnapped from the shores of Mama Africa, and brought to the unknown lands of the Western Hemisphere. They never forgot their home and continued to keep hope and prayers alive that the would one day return. Most were never able to return to their home, but their descendants didn't forget about the prayers and vowed to complete the mission.