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A folly of amusements: A short reflection on the politics of anti-African rhetoric

December 24, 2019
kamaurashid
Culture

If things African are deemed worthy of contempt and ridicule, where does such a political orientation point those ill-equipped to see through such a campaign? That is, if our culture is an object for amusement, then whose do we regard

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Abandoning tradition for alienation

October 22, 2019
kamaurashid
Culture

In the Epic of Sundiata we find that Sundiata’s conceptions of reality were not based on any set of ideological premises, but rather were the product of his own ancient Malian tradition. This pattern we see throughout the traditional African

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Culture and sovereignty: An evaluative criteria

November 16, 2018
kamaurashid
Culture, Uhuru

The reclamation of our culture and the restoration of African sovereignty in the world are two of the highest struggles that we can engage in. The first enables a fuller realization of and engagement with our humanity. The second makes

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The mtu (human being) and African spirituality

November 10, 2018
kamaurashid
Culture

Within the African worldview we see a conception of the mtu (human) as existing in body, mind, and spirit. At the foundation of this scheme and within the framework of traditional society was a comprehensive orientation towards developing the self

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Thoughts on constructed languages, interlanguages, and sankɔfa

July 22, 2018
kamaurashid
language

My interest in constructed languages has been related to two queries. 1) Might we utilize a constructed language based off of African-languages to optimize language learning? 2) Can we use a mutually intelligible constructed language for intercommunication within the African

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Being on the path: Meditations on Living and Re-Africanization

May 27, 2018
kamaurashid
Culture, language, Martial arts

I am convinced that when we are on the path, when we are doing the things that we are supposed to be doing, we are consistently presented with reminders of the correctness of the direction in which we are moving.

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Naming and re-Africanization: Being and becoming exemplars of our ancestral traditions

September 16, 2017
kamaurashid
Culture

This essay emerges from at least two things. Recently, I watched a rather engaging talk by Dr. Ama Mazama of Temple University, on the importance of Africans rejecting European names. In her talk, she also highlighted the work of her

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