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FRIDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12-13 African American Museum of Philadelphia 701 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106

PRESENTED BY:

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina, Coppin State University Dr. Latoyia Bailey, School District of Philadelphia Dr. Ifetayo Flannery, San Francisco State University Dr. Marquita Gammage, University of California, Northridge Raven Moses, Temple University Dr. Jennifer Williams, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Doñela Wright, San Francisco State University Stephanie Yarbough, Temple University

VOLUNTEERS

Claire Vilain, Temple University Tristan Samuels, Temple University Tarik Richardson, Temple University Ife Changa, Osholene Oshobugie, University of Toronto

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Colleagues,

I would like to welcome you to the 30th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference. We are celebrating a significant milestone of our convening, and we declare boldly that we are still here, seeking truth, generating knowledge, fostering community, and standing in dignity.

The Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA) is devoted to praxis and theory of the Afrocentric Intellectual tradition. Our commitment is to expand Cheikh Anta Diop's invocation of using all the techniques and tools at our disposal, as well as, dialoguing exhaustively as a community about our work, in order to broaden, clarify, and solidify Africana ideas and experiences.

This year, we chose the theme, "30 Years Later: Afrocentric Scholarship in Praxis at the Cheikh Anta Diop Conference," to be a critical reflection of not only the types of Afrocentric scholarship we produce, but an interrogation of how it is implemented in the world. To be part of an institution that has survived 30 years is a reminder that we have journeyed far, but we will not retire. We are remarkable group of those selflessly dedicated to the welfare and future of African people across time and space. DISA extends this opportunity annually so that all peoples committed to this work may reflect, reexamine, rework, and reassess if the tools and knowledges we have generated thus far are the most truthful, complex, straight-forward, reproducible, valid, innovative, and applicable techniques, philosophies, and information.

Ever year, we solicit papers from an international cadre of scholars to update, reframe, modernize, and re-engage African global intellectual legacies. Every year, the Diop Conference has brought together a community of noteworthy scholars, artists, educators, and activists to discuss, debate, and collaborate on concepts and projects that inspire and empower African people worldwide. Ever year, we are honored with presenters who serve as exemplars of Afrocentric scholarship because they aim to restore harmony and integrity in the lives of African people.

Over the last few months, the Executive Council has taken time to reflect on our role to our community. What we determined is that we have to grow as our community has grown. We have to adapt to the winds of change, while maintaining our mission. We have to have victorious consciousness and stand confidently as the avante-garde of Afrocentric scholarship and praxis.

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR When we say we must move forward, we must actively move forward…

In fulfilling our commitment, our goal for the next few years is to plant seeds of ideologies, cultivate our community, and generate new spaces of intellectual honing. We hope you support us in our endeavors.

Furthermore, I ask that our participants support us by joining in our pledge to growth. We ask that when you leave the event, you leave with a plan to recommit to African peoples’ social development. Support, join, and create new organizations. Write. Create art. Ask what the community needs. Generate data. Publish widely and broadly. Use technologies that are efficient and effective. Edit and support journals. Organize conferences, workshops, seminars. Fund institutions and individuals. Provide resources, support and wisdom. Live fully as African people. Period.

Cheikh Anta Diop speaks powerfully about his aims for the future,

We must continue. We must have a heightened awareness of the nature of the work to be done, of the effort to be undertaken. I believe this is the most important thing. To know what has to be done has nothing to do with the brevity of human life. To solve problems by organizing the work because it is not possible, in the space of one human life to solve all the problems posed by our cultural birth. But I believe that now the African peoples throughout the world are sufficiently aware and sensitive to the task to be undertaken and that is a great step. What is important is the organization of the work. As I have often said, we must be very severe with ourselves. We must be armed to the teeth with science to reconquer our cultural inheritance. This is the task which awaits the future generation. As long as I live, I will assist in the formation of interdisciplinary teams for the pursuit of this task. – Diop, 1985.

On behalf of the Executive Council, I thank you for joining us, in our commitment to growth in days of both plenty and dearth. The continued success of the conference depends on our commitment to the work and to each other.

Let us continue. Ankh. Wedja. Seneb.

Jennifer Williams,PhD; Executive Director, DISA

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The History of the Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference

The Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference was initiated by Molefi K. Asante to coincide with the introduction of the first doctoral program in African American Studies at Temple University. The conference was called in October, 1988, and featured many of the new students who had enrolled in the Department of African American Studies at Temple.

The Cheikh Anta Diop Conference had three objectives: 1) introduction of the new discipline, 2) professional and collegial networking among students and faculty in Black Studies, and 3) advancement of disciplinary knowledge around the Afrocentric idea.

Named for the brilliant Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop, who single- handedly revised the text on African antiquity by writing several books exposing the methods Europeans had employed to falsify African history, the conference assumed a leadership role in the projection of Afrocentric consciousness. From the beginning, the CAD Conference was defined as an instrument where space for intellectual growth could be created and sustained in an environment of free discourse. Diop had been the inspiration for the conference because, in his two important works translated into English—The African Origin of Civilization and Civilization or Barbarism—he had demonstrated the advantages of sound scholarship over shoddy work. His research methods were multidimensional and his expertise was sharp, always projecting a measure of African intellectual integrity in pursuit of truth.

The conference has attracted participants from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and Australia and was affiliated with Temple University until 1996, when it became affiliated with the Association for Kemetic Nubian Heritage (ANKH). In 2008 The Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement took over underwriting the conference and is now responsible for the organization, personnel, and programming. Considered by professionals in the field of Black Studies as one of the key conferences each year, the Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference has achieved the singular status of most preferred professional conference in African American Studies.

* Adapted from Garvey Musmunu’s entry in Encyclopedia of Black Studies

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Cheikh Anta Diop Per Aa of African Studies Cheikh Anta Diop, one of the major world scholars, was born near Diourbel, Senegal on December 29, 1923. At the age of twenty- three, he went to Paris, France to continue advanced studies in physics. Within a very short time, however, he was drawn deeper into studies relating to the African origins of humanity and civilization. Becoming more and more active in the African student movements and demanding the independence of French colonial possessions, he became convinced that only by reexamining and restoring Africa's distorted, maligned, and obscured place in world history could the physical and psychological shackles of colonialism be lifted from all African people.

His initial doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Paris, Sorbonne in 1951, based on the premise that Egypt of the pharaohs was an African civilization was rejected by his committee. Nevertheless, Alioune Diop, publisher of Presence Africaine, determined to publish under the title Nations Negres et Culture in 1955 and it won him international acclaim. Two additional attempts to have his doctorate granted were turned back until 1960 when he entered his defense session with an array of sociologists, anthropologists and historians and successfully carried his argument. After nearly a decade of effort, Diop won his battle for the doctorate.

By this time, Diop had other intellectual works -- the Cultural Unity of Black Africa and Precolonial Black Africa, as a result of his studies.

During his student days, Cheikh Anta Diop was an avid political activist. From 1950 to 1953 he was the Secretary-General of the Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA) and helped establish the first Pan-African Student Congress in Paris in 1951. He also participated in the First World Congress of Black Writers and Artists held in Paris in 1956 and the second such Congress held in Rome in 1959. Upon returning to Senegal in 1960, Diop continued his research and established a radiocarbon laboratory in Dakar. In 1966, the First World Black Festival of Arts and Culture held in Dakar, Senegal honored Dr. Diop and Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois as the scholars who exerted the greatest influence on African thought in twentieth century. In 1974, a milestone occurred in the English-speaking world when the African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality was finally published. It was also in 1974 that Diop and Theophile Obenga collectively and soundly reaffirmed the African origin of Pharaonic Egyptian civilization at a UNESCO sponsored symposium in Cairo, Egypt. In 1981, Diop's last major work translated in English, Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology, was published.

Cheikh Anta Diop died quietly in his sleep in Dakar, Senegal on February 7, 1986. Two years after Diop’s death, Molefi Kete Asante founded the International Cheikh Anta Diop Conference in honor of Afrocentric scholarship.

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Molefi Kete Asante Founder of the Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference & the first Ph.D. Program in Africana Studies (Temple University)

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and chair of the and international television shows. He has appeared in Department of African American Studies at Temple University. several movies including 500 Years Later, The Black Candle. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished Dr. Asante holds more than 100 awards for scholarship and contemporary scholars, Asante has published 74 books, teaching including the Fulbright, honorary doctorates from among the most recent are As I Run Toward Africa, The three universities, and is a guest professor at Zhejiang African American People, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual University. Portrait, An Afrocentric Manifesto, Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, Handbook of Black Studies, co-edited with In 1995, he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Maulana Karenga, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, co-edited Peasah, Kyidomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana. He was with Ama Mazama, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African American Nation. The second edition of his high school text, Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition, is University in 2004. African Union cited him as one of the used in more than 400 schools throughout North America. twelve top scholars of African descent when it invited him to Asante has been recognized as one of the ten most widely give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of cited African Americans. In the 1990s, Black Issues in Higher Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004. He Education recognized him as one of the most influential was the Chair of the United States Commission for FESMAN leaders in the decade. III for three years and in September 2009, he was elected by the Council of African Intellectuals as the Chair for the Molefi Kete Asante was born in Valdosta, Ga., one of sixteen Diaspora Intellectuals in support of the United States of Africa. children. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in In 2012, Dr. Asante founded the Molefi Kete Asante Institute l964. He entered Pepperdine soon afterwards and Asante where he serves as president and senior fellow completed his M.A. at Pepperdine University in 1965. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA at the age of 26 in l968 and Dr. Molefi Asante believes it is not enough to know, one must was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State act to humanize the world. University of New York at Buffalo. He chaired the Communication Department at SUNY-Buffalo from 1973-1980. He worked in Zimbabwe as a trainer of journalists from 1980 to 1982. In the fall of 1984, Dr. Asante became chair of the African American Studies Program at Temple University where he created the first Ph.D. Program in African American Studies in 1987. He has directed more than 140 Ph.D. dissertations. He has written more than 500 articles and essays for journals, books and magazines and is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity. His work on African culture and philosophy and African American education has been cited by journals such as the Matrices, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Communication, American Scholar, Daedalus, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Africaological Perspectives. He has appeared on Nightline, Nighttalk, BET, Macnell Lehrer News Hour, Today Show, the Tony Brown Show, Night Watch, Like It Is and 60 Minutes and more than one hundred local

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DAY 1 Friday, September 11

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9:30 – 3:00pm Registration

Jennifer Williams, 10:00 – 10:05am Executive Director DISA, Loyola Marymount University Opening Remarks

10:10 – 11:30am Panel 1 - Health, Aesthetics, & Politics

Jamal Martin, The University of New Mexico How Africology Transforms Critical Public Health and the Human Project

Raphael Luiz Barbosa da Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Institute of Philosophy The body system as a Kemetic ontological perspective

Andre Kabamba, Afrocentricity International Australia For Union of African Community Republics

Adisa Alkebulan, San Diego State University Post-Obama Black Leadership: A Reckoning

Naiara Paula Eugenio,Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ About the Aesthetic and the Philosophy of African art

Chair: Tarik Richardson, Temple University

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DAY 1 Friday, September 11

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11:30 – 12:45pm Panel 2 - Ancient Traditions and Language

Shomarka Keita The Ideal African Studies/Africana Studies Department with a focus on Ancient African Studies: Which Disciplines? An Illustration in a critique of recent programs and genomic work on the ancient Egyptians kmt/history

Kimani Nehusi, Temple University Land and Identity in the African Tradition

Tristan Samuels, Temple University Ah Invokative Pronoun Dis: An Afrocentric Analysis of the Jamaican ‘ah’ language

Asar Imhotep, Madu-Ndela Institute Etymology of the word km.t ‘kemet’: A critical reexamination of the Diop-Obenga hypothesis.

Chair: Jennifer Williams, Loyola Marymoung

Keynote Presentation 12:50 – 1:35pm Tiamoyo Karenga, "Being African Woman in the World: Gleanings from Kawaida, Husitic and Ifa Texts."

Chair: Doñela Wright, San Francsico State Univ.

1:35 – 2:35pm Lunch on Your Own

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DAY 1 Friday, September 11

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2:40 - 4:00pm Panel 3 - Education, "Schooling" and Pedagogy.

Sureshi Jayawardene, San Diego State University Black Student Mothers: A Culturally Relevant Exploratory Study

Ophera Davis, Independent Scholar Afrocentric Scholarship in Praxis: Millennial and IGener undergraduates reflections on the impact of their Black Psychology course on their cultural rootedness at a selective PWI women’s institution.

Clarence George III, Michigan State University From Timbuktu to Kara: African-centered Pedagogies in Detroit and Tshwane (Pretoria)

Naaja Rogers, Temple University The Mis-Education of the Negro: The Importance of Restoring Agency in Education and Schooling

Garrison Paige, Temple University Mask Off!: Unveiling Agency Reducing Identities within the Diasporic African Community

Chair: Osholene Oshobugie

4:05 – 4:35pm Plenary 1

Ama Mazama, Temple University Molefi Kete Asante's Contributions to Black Studies

Chair: Garrison Paige, Temple University

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DAY 1 Friday, September 11

30 YEARS LATER: AFROCENTRIC SCHOLARSHIP IN PRAXIS AT THE CHEIKH ANTA DIOP CONFERENCE" 4:40 – 6:00pm Panel 4 - Africology Retrospectives & Futures

Luanda Nascimento, Hoju Inst./Matriarcalismo Africana Brazil Africology as a mean of unifying knowledge from an Afrocentric perspective

Anthony Dandridge, Temple University Africology: Engaging a Role for Afrocentric Science in the 21st Century

Ifetayo Flannery, San Francisco State University The Duty of Inheriting Black Studies

Itibari Zulu, Africology: Journal of Pan African Studies Africology 101: Afrifactor Vibrancy and Self- Determination

Patricia Reid-Merritt, Stockton University Temple University’s African American Studies PhD Program @ 30 Assessing the Asante Affect

Chair: Tristan Samuels, Temple University

6:00 – 6:30pm Ronin Hollins, Drumming

6:35 - 7:05pm Molefi Kete Asante Award Ceremony & Reception

with special presentation by Alice ThePoet Nicholas, "As Told by Himself" : Humanizing The Object in Zora Neal Hurston's Barracoon.

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DAY 2 Saturday, September 12

30 YEARS LATER: AFROCENTRIC SCHOLARSHIP IN PRAXIS AT THE CHEIKH ANTA DIOP CONFERENCE"

9:30 – 3:00pm Registration

10:00 – 10:05am Ifetayo Flannery, Director of Marketing, DISA, SFSU Opening Remarks

10:10-11:20am Panel 5 - Spiritual Traditions

Thayna Trindade do Nascimento, Universidade Federal Do Rio Janeiro - Laboratório Geru Maa The Historical and Imagetical Whitening of Ancient Egypt

Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies Kemetic Rastology as a Source of Ancient African Wisdom and a New Emerging Paradigm within Rastafari

Bo Chamberlin, Temple University The Religious and Philosophical Origins of Racism

Claire Vilain, Temple University The Removal of the Conceptual White Mask in Haitian Vodou: Saut d'Eau Ceremony 1849

Richard Cooper, Widener University From Zero to Thelathini (30): Afrocentricity as Ka

Chair: Ife Changa,

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DAY 2 Saturday, September 12

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11:35 – 11:50am Presentation by the African American Museum

Octavius Cato:

11:55 - 1:05PM Panel 6- Perspectives in Africana Literature & Agency

Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University From Roots to Black Panther: The White Savior Satisfaction

Brian Yates, Saint Joseph's University The World of Wakanda and African centered Pedagogy

Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers, SDSU (RE)Turn to the Feminine Divine to Increase the Power vested in Black Womanhood: A Mandate for Strengthening African Agency

Linda James Myers, Ohio State University "Winning That the Ancestors Be Pleased: Afrocentric Scholarship in Praxis.

Chair: Tarik Richardson, Temple University

Lunch on your own 1:10 – 2:10pm

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DAY 2 Saturday, September 12

30 YEARS LATER: AFROCENTRIC SCHOLARSHIP IN PRAXIS AT THE CHEIKH ANTA DIOP CONFERENCE" 2:15– 3:35pm Panel 7 - Men, Philosophy, and Africa

Akil Parker, AHSA Evading the Trap: The Historiographical Work of Cheikh Anta Diop and its Relevance to Contemporary Urban African Cultural Aspects

Katiuscia Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro African Philosophy

Mark Christian, Lehman College, CUNY Fredrick Douglas and his trip to Britain: 1845 - 1847

Deirdre Foreman, Ramapo College of New Jersey Race History: The Historical Foundation of the Intellectual Contributions of W.E.B Du Bois and Cheikh Anta Diop

Tarik Richardson, Temple University Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: A Review of Du Bois’ Scholarship Concerning Africa

Chair: Claire Vilain, Temple University

3:40 – 4:10pm Plenary 2

Mualana Karenga, CSU, Long Beach Africana Studies, Sankofa Centering, Critical Assessment and Continuing Expansiveness: Against Disciplinary Provincialism, Imperialism and Fragmentation

Chair: Latoyia Bailey, School District of Philadelphia

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DAY 2 Saturday, September 12

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4:15 – 5:35pm Panel 8 - Literature & Mythology

Christel Temple, University of Pittsburgh Black Cultural Mythology and Anteriority

Juliana Correia, Universidade Federal do Rio de

Janeiro Accessing the African Cultural Heritage from the Black Storytelling

V. Nzingha Gaffin, Cheyney University The Nommo in The Coming literature

Tavengwa Gwekwerere, CSU, Los Angeles The Continental African Novel and the Quest for a Reconstructed Africa: An Afrotriumphalist

Manifesto literature

Chair: Raven Moses, Temple University

5:40– 6:10pm Plenary 3

Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University Humanity and Civilization: Diop and the Question

of Origin

Chair: Ifetayo Flannery, San Francisco State University

Closing Reading of Conference Resolution

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BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

MRS. TIAMOYO KARENGA is a lecturer, archivist and member of the Board of Directors at the African American Cultural Center (Us) and a lecturer and coordinator at the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies. Mrs. Karenga holds a B.A. in Black Studies and a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from California State University, Long Beach with an emphasis in Black Studies and ancient African archaeology, especially Ancient Egyptian and Nubian archaeology. The title of her thesis was “Office of the Divine Wife of Amen in Ancient Egypt in the 25th and 26th Dynasties: A Study of Women and Power in Ancient Egypt.” She is co-writing with the internationally recognized activist-scholar and ethical philosopher, Seba Dr. Maulana Karenga, a book on the moral texts of ancient Egyptian women. Mrs. Karenga is also a Seba Maat (moral teacher) in the ancient Egyptian tradition of Kawaida Maat.

Seba Tiamoyo Karenga is a long-time social activist who has worked in the Movement and in various capacities in The Organization Us since the 60's, serving then as: chair of the Legal Committee; chair of the Third World Issues Committee; teacher in its independent school, the Kawaida School of African American Culture; and an editor of the organization's newspaper, Harambee; and currently as secretary and archivist of Us and administrative assistant to its chair, Dr. Karenga. Deeply concerned with women issues, Seba Tiamoyo is also a member of the Senut Sisterhood of Us, a sisterhood of the world African community, the International Black Women's Congress and the National Council of Negro Women. She has also presented papers on Kawaida womanism, ancient Egyptian women and power, male/female relations, and the history of the women of Us in national and international venues, including at the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies, the African American Cultural Center, the Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, the National Council for Black Studies and the University of West Indies. Her research interests include Kawaida womanism, ancient Egyptian and Nubian women in power and their ethical texts, the history of the women of Us, and the life of Harriet Tubman as template and text.

A close collaborator, advisor, co-worker and wife of Dr. Karenga, Seba Tiamoyo has worked with him on national projects such as the National Black Power Conferences, the National Black United Front, and the National African American Leadership Summit as well as the Million Man March/Day of Absence organizing project and the Mission Statement. In addition, she has accompanied, assisted and collaborated with him on trips to Africa (Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa), the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Trinidad, Mexico, Canada and Britain to lecture, work on projects and represent African American people.

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BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS Tiamoyo Karenga cont'd

Seba Tiamoyo Karenga and Seba Maulana Karenga met, worked and struggled together, built their enduring friendship and made their marriage commitment in the midst of the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s. As Movement people, their life, love and work have been shaped and continue to be shaped by the Black liberation struggle to which they have dedicated themselves. The Organization Us and the African American Cultural Center (Us) serve as the foundation and framework for their work and initiatives and in 2015, they celebrated the 50-year history of their and Us’ work, service, struggle and institution building in the pursuit of cultural revolution, radical social change and bringing good in the world.

DR. AMA MAZAMA is full professor of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of La Sorbonne, Paris, with highest distinction. Before joining Temple, Dr. Mazama taught at the University of Texas, Austin and Penn State, College Park, and was a visiting professor at Georgetown University and Howard University. She has published 20 books in French or English, among which The Afrocentric Paradigm (2003), L’Impératif Afrocentrique (2003), The Encyclopedia of Black Studies (2005) (co-edited with Molefi Kete Asante), Kwanzaa ou la Célébration du Génie Africain (2006), Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future (2007) and The Encyclopedia of African Religion (2009) (co-edited with Molefi Kete Asante), as well as over 100 articles in French and English in national and international journals. Ama Mazama has translated in French the book Afrocentricity by Molefi Kete Asante (2003), Marcus Garvey’s Lessons in African Philosophy (2011), and more recently The Isis Papers by Frances Cress Welsing (2016). Mazama’s early work was on the African roots of Caribbean Creole languages. Her current work, in addition to Afrocentric theory and praxis, is on African American homeschooling as an exercise in African agency. In addition to being the Graduate Director of the Department of Africology at Temple, Dr. Mazama is also the co-editor in chief and managing editor of the Journal of Black Studies, the top scholarly journal in Black Studies. In 2007, the National Council of Black Studies presented her with the Ana Julia Cooper and CLR James Award for her contributions to the advancement of the discipline of Black Studies.

Dr. Mazama has lectured nationally, in the US and Canada, and internationally, in places such as Paris, Vienna, Geneve, Lausanne, London, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia; in Benin, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Cameroun, Senegal and Australia; and of course, in the Caribbean, her place of origin. Dr. Mazama was appointed in September 2009 to the distinguished Council of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora as the representative of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean at large.

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Ama Mazama continued

Furthermore, in 2001, Ama Mazama was initiated in Haiti, as a Mambo (Vodou Priestess). Ama Mazama is married and has 3 children whom she educates at home in order to protect them and instill in them an unconditional love for Africa, African people, and African culture. She describes herself as first and foremost an Afrocentric and Pan-African activist, totally committed to the resurgence of African people. In 2011, she created with Dr. Molefi Kete Asante an international organization modeled after the UNIA of Marcus Garvey, Afrocentricity International, Inc. As the head of the organization, Dr. Mazama intends to bring Afrocentricity into action at a collective and international level to help put an end to the mental, cultural, economic, spiritual, political, and educational disenfranchisement of African people worldwide.

DR. MAULANA KARENGA is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He holds two Ph.D.'s: his first in political science with focus on the theory and practice of nationalism (United States International University) and his second in social ethics with a focus on the classical African ethics of ancient Egypt (University of Southern California). An ethical philosopher, Dr. Karenga is the leading exponent of Maatian ethical thought, having developed over the last three decades, a creative and scholarly Kawaida interpretation of ancient Egyptian ethical thought as a living tradition and a useful philosophical option for critical reflection on the urgent issues of our time.

An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, Dr. Karenga has had a far-reaching effect on Black intellectual and political culture since the 1960s for which he has received numerous awards. Through his organizational and intellectual work, and his philosophy, Kawaida, he has played a vanguard role in shaping the Black Arts Movement, Black Studies, the Black Power Movement, the Black Student Union Movement, Afrocentricity, ancient Egyptian studies and the study of ancient Egyptian culture as an essential part of Black Studies, Ifa ethical studies, rites of passage programs, the Independent Black School Movement, African life-cycle ceremonies, the Simba Wachanga Youth Movement, Black theological and ethical discourse, Black united fronts and the Reparations Movement.

Dr. Karenga is the executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies, Los Angeles, national chairman of The Organization Us, the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO), and co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance Los Angeles (BCCLA). He also served on the executive council of the national organizing committee of the Million Man March/Day of Absence and authored its Mission Statement.

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Maulana Karenga continued

Moreover, Dr. Karenga is internationally known as the creator of the pan- African cultural holiday, Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba and of Kawaida philosophy out of which both were conceived and created. He is also the author of the authoritative book on the subject: Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture. In addition, he has lectured on the life and struggle of African peoples on numerous campuses of the U.S.A. and in Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Trinidad, Britain and Canada.

Moreover, Dr. Karenga is author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including: Essays on Struggle: Position and Analysis; Introduction to Black Studies, 4th edition, Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings. Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Handbook of Black Studies (co-edited with Molefi Asante), and By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X, Real Not Reinvented (co-edited with H. Boyd, R. Daniels and H. Madhubuti). He is currently writing a book on The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Practice. Dr. Karenga is the subject of a book titled Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, which is the definitive text on his intellectual and organizational work.

A highly respected senior scholar in Black/Africana Studies and a board member of the National Council for Black Studies, Dr. Karenga has played a major role in the founding and development of the discipline and is the recipient of numerous awards for scholar¬ship, leadership and community service from the preeminent professional organizations, departments and programs in the field, including Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work Significantly Contributive to the Understanding, Development and Appreciation of African World Culture and the C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, National Council for Black Studies (NCBS); the Torch Lifetime Achievement Award, National Newspaper Publishers Association; and the Richard Allen Living Legend Award, AME Church.

DR. MOLEFI KETE ASANTE -- See page 8

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Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Resolution October 12-13, 2018

Taking our inspiration from Imhotep, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, Chaminuka, Shaka, Amenemope, Amadou Bamba, Zumbi, Harriet Tubman, Nanny, Richard Allen, Nehanda, Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, Anna Julia Cooper, Yenenga, Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, John Garang, Frantz Fanon, Boukman, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Manuel Zapata-Olivella, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mariesaint Dede, W.E.B. DuBois, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenyatta, Yaa Asantewaa, Marcus Garvey, Yanga, Prudencio, Carter G. Woodson, Malcolm X, Ida B. Wells-Barnett , Fannie Lou Hamer, and Cheikh Anta Diop who lived for excellence and justice, and

Whereas the Establishment of Maat Is Paramount In Our Lives, In our Research, and In The Structure of World Knowledge, And Whereas Culture Is A Dominant Factor in the Knowledge Industry,

We Resolve To Maintain Cultural, Social, Economic, and Political Vigilance, To Advance Excellence and Ethical Responsibility As Models for Humanity, And To Institute Direct Social Action When Necessary in the Interest of Humanity. In this Resolution we must

not fail. Hotep!

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