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

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.

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.

Dr. Obadele Kambon on the heavy bag

About my Great Grandfather, Ferrara Levi Lord

From Dr. Obadele Kambon's Capoeira Sojourn to Brasil in 2007

Abibifahodie Capoeira May 13, 2012 End of Class Roda Legon, Ghana, Accra, West Africa

Abibifahodie Capoeira June 3, 2012 End of Class Roda Legon, Ghana, Accra, West Africa

Abibifahodie Capoeira End of Class Roda 05-27-2012 Accra Ghana