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2019 International Conference

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11-12 African American Museum of Philadelphia 701 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106

HOSTED BY PRESENTED BY

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 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

VOLUNTEERS Toyo Aboderin, Temple University Taylor Duckett, Indiana University Jazmin Evans, Temple University Wilbert St. Hilaire, Temple University Michael Wilson,Temple University

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Greetings friends,

I want to personally welcome each of you to the 31st Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference. For the second year, we are gathered at the African American Museum of Philadelphia to discuss Afrocentric scholarship and praxis for the upliftment of African people and the betterment of the world.

After reflecting on the success of the 30th conference, the Executive Council and I noted that without a collective of spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual wellness, our efforts of institution-building would crumble.

We were reminded that:

in the United States, Africans born in North America, as well as those who immigrated from the African continent, the Caribbean, and South America are likely to be diagnosed with Breast Cancer, diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, and other physiological diseases. school-age African children face multiple psychological traumas due to the diminishment of African life within curricula and teaching, as well as the spatial and social oppressions they face before they even walk into a classroom. the continued exclusion from health, educational, and economic institutions and the stress of state- sponsored terrorism of Africana communities have led to an increase of psychological distress in the African community while there exists a shortage of resources and practitioners that address the unique conditions of African people. we are susceptible to social pressures to diminish our self-worth for professional and personal purposes that result in adopting self-destructive behaviors and attitudes that only benefit institutions and individuals that exploit us and our communities.

However, we also recognized that our community had taken steps to reject Eurocentric ideologies and reclaim culturally-relevant solutions. Africans have been moved to practice African Spiritual Systems, such as Ifá, Vodou, Lukumí, and Candomblé and reacquaint themselves with ancestral veneration, as a means to recover from the forced conversion to Christianity and the other consequences of enslavement and colonialism. They are engaging in self-care practices ranging from individualized leisure activities, such as receiving manicures and eating ind ulgent foods, to engaging with ritualistic resources that reflect Ma’atian principles, such as acupuncture, smudging, herbal medicine and rootwork, crystals, meditation, dietary restrictions, and physical discipline. They are voraciously reading historical and theoretical texts by Africans and generating knowledge in digital and print formats to combat miseducation and ignorance on a broader scale.

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Comprehending this reality, the Executive Council wanted to provide a forum where healers, spiritual leaders and practitioners, activists, educators, parents, and anyone impacted by the processes of European dehumanization repudiate the harm that has been inflicted upon African people globally, and provide solutions where African people have victorious consciousness and direct their own cultural development. This year’s panelists reflect our theme “Africana Holism and Agency: Exploring Healing and Wellness within Afrocentric Scholarship,” by addressing the diseases of colonialism, miseducation, ignorance, stereotypes, and proposing methods and techniques of wellness in areas such as movement, ancestral veneration, rites of passage, folklore, and theorization that will put us on a path to heal ourselves, our children, and the many generations that come after us.

In closing, I want to thank the African American Museum of Philadelphia for allowing us to keep this significant space another year. I want to thank the executive council, Raven Moses, Doñela Wright, LaToyia Bailey, Marquita Gammage, and Ifetayo Flannery, for their dedication and service to this organi zation and the mission and legacy of Cheick Anta Diop. I want to thank each of you again for attending the conference and bringing your experience and expertise to this space. You, as elders, students, leaders, supporters, dreamers, and doers, have the vision, knowledge, and resources to aid African people in developing their futures. Throughout this conference, I ask you to stay engaged, form new net works, and take what you learn in this room to inspire others who do not have access to these knowledges. Most importantly, I want to remind you that without wellness, there is no life or prosperity.

Thank you for joining us.

Ankh, Wedja, Seneb (life, prosperity, and health)!

Jennifer Williams, Executive Director, DISA

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference 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 labora tory 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 Asant e founded the International Cheikh Anta Diop Conference in honor of Afrocentric scholarship.

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference : 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 Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has published 83 books, among the most recent are As I Run Toward Africa, The African American People, : An Intellectual Portrait, An Afrocentric Manifesto, Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, Handbook of Black Studies, co-edited with Maulana Karenga, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, co-edited with Ama Mazama, Erasing : The Survival of the American Nation. The second edition of his high school text, African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition, is used in more than 400 schools throughout North America. Asante has been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans. In the 1990s, Black Issues in Higher Education recognized him as one of the most influential leaders in the decade.

Molefi Kete Asante was born in Valdosta, Ga., one of sixteen children. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in 1964. He entered Pepperdine soon afterwards and Asante completed his M.A. at Pepperdine University in 1965. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA at the age of 26 in 1968 and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State 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 Matices, 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 nd international television shows. He has appeared in several movies including 500 Years Later, The Black Candle. Dr. Asante holds more than 100 awards for scholarship and teaching including the Fulbright, honorary doctorates from three universities, and is a guest professor at Zhejiang University.

In 1995, he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyidomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana. He was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at State University in 2004. cited him as one of the twelve top scholars of African descent when it invited him to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004. He was the Chair of the United States Commission for FESMAN III for three years and in September 2009, he was elected by the Council of African Intellectuals as the Chair for the Diaspora Intellectuals in support of the . In 2012, Dr. Asante founded the Molefi Kete Asante Institute where he serves as president and senior fellow

Dr. Molefi Asante believes it is not enough to know, one must act to humanize the world.

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

DR. ROBBIN ALSTON, Author, Public Speaker, Psychologist

Dr. Alston was born in Washington, D.C. some would say during the worst of times in the '60s. She received her undergraduate degree from Lasalle University in psychology and went on to work in the field of mental health for over thirty decades. In 1984, as an advocate and therapist in the landmark case of Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman, Dr. Alston worked in the closing of one of the most notorious state mental hospitals. She earned a Master's Degree in School Psychology and a Ph.D. in School Psychology from Temple University. Her postdoctoral interest has centered on Neuropsychology and Educational Law.

After a life awakening experience sparked by a diagnosis of breast cancer, which resulted in a radical mastectomy; she also radically changed her life. She quit her job, to go back and fetch life-saving personal and historical knowledge for healing. Her healing process revealed that without understanding our experiences, we succumb to chronic illnesses, premature deaths, and an inability to fulfill our purpose. Empowered with an awakening, Dr. Alston set on a journey which brought her into truth consciousness, into yoga, where she would earn the ranked as a yoga Master and healer. Over fifteen years ago, she founded the Àse Yoga Studio & Tea Room, the first Black-owned yoga studio in Philadelphia.

At a time, where everything is generic and scripted, she wanted to call attention to the unique and often misunderstood experiences of African-Americans. From her extensive study and regular travel to Ghana, and study in India, from her many gurus, she began putting into practice the ancient wisdom from our ancestors on our spirit, Àse, MAAT, Sankofa, energy, and healing. Her core message centers on the idea that for genuine healing to occur, we must understand our experiences to transcend them, and ultimately transform our lives. She believes that our African ancestor's teachings hold the answer to our psychological and physical wellness. It's through their insights that we realize that fragmentation brings about chaos while unification ushers in harmony. Dr.Alston believes that this unification, this understanding is yoga, a part of our spiritual history.

Dr. Alston has served as an Adjunct Professor at The Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder of B.E.T.A., which for over twenty years has provided culturally relevant psychoeducational services for African- American children. Dr. Alston is a member of the Association of Black Psychologist; Nationally Association of School Psychologist, and The Learning Disabilities Association. She has presented at conferences, community, and church groups. Dr. Alston has been featured in Essence magazine, and on W.U.R.D. and NPR radio in Philadelphia. She is a recognized expert in the field of education and health and wellness. Dr. Alston is the author of "The Art Feeling Good" The Power of Àse Yoga." In her new book, "Àse Yoga, Where every breath counts," she encourages us to view our experiences as an opportunity to express our hidden potential.

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

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 . 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), 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), ’s Lessons in (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.

Furthermore, in 2001, Ama Mazama was initiated in Haiti, as a Mambo (Vodou Priestess). Ama Mazama is married a nd has 3 children whom she educates at home in order to protect them and instill in them an unconditional love for Af rica, African people, and African culture. She describes her self 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 intern ational organization modeled after the UNIA of Marcus Gar vey, Afrocentricity International, Inc. As the head of the org anization, Dr. Mazama intends to bring Afrocentricity into a ction at a collective and international level to help put an e nd to the mental, cultur al, economic, spiritual, political, and educational disenfranchisement of African people worldwi de.

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AFRICANA HOLISM AND AGENCY Exploring Healing and Wellness within Afrocentric Scholarship

9:30am – 3:00pm Registration

10:20 – 10:25am Opening Remarks - Libation

10:30 – 11:30am Panel 1. Decolonizing the Diaspora

Rutte Andrade, Universidade da Integraçao Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB) African Philosophy, (Des) Colonization of Education in Cape Verde and African Cultural System.

Thayna Pereira Trindade do Nascimento, EBA/UFRJ - Laboratório de Africologia e Estudos Ameríndios Geru Maa Black Art: Dialogues between consciences, politics, and subjectivities in contemporary art in Brazil

Tarik Richardson, Temple University The Construction of Swahili Identity: Arab Imperialism’s Effect on the People & Language of East Africa

Chair: Toyo Aboderin, Temple University

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11:35 – 12:35pm Panel 2. Healing through Representation and Ritual

Ebele Oseye, Pace University The Drums of Rwanda: Commemoration and Celebration

Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Temple University Performing Race: Using Performance to Heal the Trauma of Race and Racism on College Campuses

Marquita Gammage, CSU Northridge The Destruction of Africana Women’s Wellbeing Through Media: From Crack Mama to Baby Mama

Chair: Taylor Duckett, Indiana University

12:40 – 1:20pm 31st Diop Conference, Keynote Address

Dr. R. Alston, Àse Yoga Studio and Tea Room The Dynamics Within An African Cosmology for Healing: Àse Yoga, The Path to Health and Wellness

Chair: Ifetayo Flannery, San Franscico State Univ.

1:25 – 2:45pm Lunch on Your Own

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2:50 - 3:50pm Panel 3. Theoretical & Structural Challenges in the Western Academy

Zack Brooks, Temple University The conceptual, political, and psychological

implications of dislocation.

Patricia Reid-Merritt & Donnetrice Allison, Stockton

University Committing Discipline Suicide: The Challenges

of Leaving Traditional Disciplines for Full-Time Appointments in Africana Studies.

Nah Dove, Temple University Race Revisited: Against a Cultural Construction

Chair: Jazmin Evans, Temple University

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4:00 – 5:00pm Panel 4. Healing through Agency Advocacy

Jamal Martin, University of New Mexico Sustaining an Enduring Global Civilization through African Holism, Agency and Wellbeing

Linda James Myers, The Ohio State University Africana/ Black Psychology’s Optimal Conceptual Theory Demonstrates Over Thirty Years of Healing Practice and Agency Transforming Consciousness in the Wisdom Traditi on of African Deep Thought

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

Chair: Marquita Gammage, CSU Northridge

5:10-5:40pm Special Yoga presentation by Dr. Alston

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9:30 – 3:00pm Registration

10:00 – 10:05am Opening Remarks - Libation

10:10 - 11:25am Panel 5. Power & Defense among Afro-Brazilians

Luanda Nascimento, Movimento Black Money The positive power of innovation in Africology

João Pedro Santos, Laboratório de Africologia e estudos Ameríndios Geru maa - UFRJ/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janerio, Brazil Defense strategies of African people in Brazil

Caroline Amanda Lopes Borges, Mestranda em Filosofia Programa de Pós Graduação em Filosofia (UFRJ); Brazil Ontological assessments of African woman's agency in Brazil

Antonio Gomes dos Santos, Laboratory of Africology and Amerindian Studies Geru Maa / UFRJ School dropout of Black youth a case or structural instrument of racism

Chair: Wilbert St. Hilaire, Temple University

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11:30 – 12:45pm Panel 6. Afrocentric Education- A Response to Educational Trauma

Clarence George III, Michigan State University Evolution of African centered education at the Kara Heritage Institute

Akil Parker, Cheyney University Per Ankh as a Remedy for Educational Trauma in 21st Century

Teranda Donatto, Temple University Using Rites of Passage into Adulthood to Socialize and Educate African Americans

Isaac Howard, Morgan State University. Examining the Continuity of Miseducation

Chair: Michael Wilson,Temple University

12:50- 2:20pm Lunch on your own

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2:25 – 3:25pm Panel 7. Myth, Media & Subjectivity

Raphael Luiz Barbosa da Silva, Philosophy and Social Sciences Institute - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

(UFRJ) - Brazil Afro-Brazilian dance: Redemption of memory and empowerment of black subjectivity in the fight

against racism

Christel Temple, University of Pittsburgh Mythological Structure as a Matter of Wellness

Daly Guilamo-Addison, The Borough of Manhattan Community College

Unintentional Anti-Haitianism or Anti-Haitianism in Disguise?: Reflections on "Progressive" Discourse in Dominican-Haitian Studies that Purports to Challenge Anti-Haitianism

Chair: Doñela Wright, San Francisco State University

Plenary 1. Vision Presentation 3:30 – 4:10pm

Ama Mazama, Temple University An Afrocentric Approach to Healing and Well-Being

Chair: Raven Moses, Temple University

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4:15 – 5:15pm Panel 8. African Psychology & Ancestral Practices

Kaniasta/ Pascale C. Annoual, Earth Center Canada Creativity, Ritual and Kemetic knowledge: reclaiming identity and rooting ancestrality

Ifetayo Flannery, San Francisco State University African Psychology: Considering Ifa Practice and Ancestral Healing Rituals

V. Nzinga Gaffin, Cheyney University Africana Wholism and Agency: Finding a Maatian Pathway Utilizing Existing Psychological Materials

Chair: Jennifer Williams, Loyola Marymount University

5:20 PM - 6:00PM Plenary 2. Founder's Address

Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University The Architecture of Civilization: Revisiting What We Know.

Chair: Latoyia Bailey, School District of Philadelphia

Awards Ceremony & Reading of Conference Closing Resolution

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS Africana Studies, CSULong Beach Earth Center Canada Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

LIFETIME MEMBERS Adisa Alkebulan Kimmikia Williams-Witherspoon

AWARD WINNERS Article Award Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers, "Not a Trophy Wife: (Re) Interpreting the Position Held by Queens of Kemet during the New Kingdom as a Political Seat," Journal of Black Studies, Vol 49(7), 2018.

Community Award

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference 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 w orks 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 the Encyclopedia of Black Studies

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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Resolution October 11-12, 2019 Taking our inspiration from Imhotep, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, Chaminuka, Shaka, Amenemope, Amadou Bamba, Zumbi, Harriet Tubman, Nanny, Richard Allen, Nehanda, , Alexander Crummell, Anna Julia Cooper, Yenenga, , Amilcar Cabral, John Garang, , Boukman, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Manuel Zapata-Divella, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mariesaint Dede, W.E.B. DuBois, , Kenyatta, Yaa Asantewaa, Marcus Garvey, Yanga, Prudencio, Carter G. Woodson, , 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 S tructure 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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2019 Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Selected Books by the Executive Council

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Thank you for attending this year's conference.

Join us in October 2020 for the 32nd Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference

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