April 1992 - Dr. Josef Ben-Jochannan discusses the lies and distortions of African history as it is taught in European societies and cultures.

⁣Dr. Ivan Van Sertima - African Presence in Early Asia

This is a ceremony by the the people of Moree during the initiation of the their high priestess. The Moree People are An Akan ethnic group in West Africa, Burkina Faso/Ghana. The Moree People normally initiate their new traditional priestess during their annual festival

Afrikan Development Studies 2012 11 28 LECTURE 5

Topic:

Power, Impoverishment, Poverty Assessment, Alleviation and Social Reconstruction

• Power
• Poverty or Impoverishment
• Maldevelopment
• Concepts, Types and Definitions of Poverty
• Poverty Causes and Dynamics of Assessment
• Poverty Alleviation Policies and Strategies
• Social Reconstruction

Readings:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa [Walter Rodney]

Maldevelopment [Samir Amin]

Chapter 1 -- Africa's Economic Backwardness
Chapter 2 -- The Decade of Drift 1975 -- 1985
Chapter 3 -- The Crisis of State

Black Power: A Moral and Political Imperative [Dr. Amos N. Wilson]

Why are they so poor? [Rudolf Staham]

Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi

Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Associate Director, Research & Publication
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor East Afrikan Journal of Research
Tumaini University Iringa University College
Tanzania, East Afrika



Dr. Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi a citizen of the United States of America and expatriate resident of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling, LA with a Bachelors of Arts in History and Masters of Public Administration in Public Administration with emphasis in Health Service Administration and of Southern University A & M College with an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy Analysis from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Dukuzumurenyi is an Afrikan-centered educator, public policy analyst, public administration scholar, political scientist, and public lecturer on Afrikan education, history, economics, politics and spirituality emphasizing systems design and strategic planning in the development of Afrikan political, military, social and economic agency. He has served the Afrikan community as an Afrikan American Studies, Geography and Economics teacher in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System of the United States for nine years, as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Southern University A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for one year and as Associate Director of Research and Publication, Editor of the Journal of East Afrikan Research and Lecturer on the Faculties of Education, Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Business and Development Studies at the University of Iringa in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Afrika for two years. The guiding influences for Dr. Dukuzumurenyi have been the works of Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochanan, Dr. Marimba Ani, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Minister Malcolm X, Stephen Biko, Shaka Zulu, Mangaliso Sobukwe & Ptahhotep to name only a select few.

Mato Oput: Acholi Traditional Justice System- [Maat System of Utamaduni Mkubwa ya KMT/Kemet]

African Origin of Civilization Revisited - Kipkoeech araap Sambu, PhD

We follow the young men coming to South Africa and risking their lives in the abandoned gold mines of Durban Deep. The gold mine is an hour outside Johannesburg and was closed down 12 years ago, after commercial mining companies moved on. Now illegal miners descend half a kilometre underground, through make-shift tunnels, and use explosives to blow apart the rock in search of gold. There are dangers both inside and outside the mines, local gangs control the area, and rapes and murders are now commonplace.