Conscientization 101

Sagacious, trenchant, and decisive are just a few ways to describe the writings of American Indian Movement activist–intellectual Ward Churchill. Informed by praxis, Churchill’s decades of work demonstrate a keen understanding that the fulcrum of the world’s political–economic contradictions are found in attenuating indigenous people’s political–economic independence and creating a helotized population.

It was/is colonialism (settler colonialism in the case of the Americas), that lies at the heart of the current world’s misery, and any analysis to the contrary is not only unrealistic, but utterly naive and puerile. While others with the same level of Churchill’s public notoriety are content to vacillate in their commitment to decolonial struggle, and genuflect with imperialism without the slightest bit of ignominy, he—understanding the exigencies of TRUE decolonial struggle—has resolutely held true to the veracity of this analysis through the decades via the solemnity of his work. His book Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays In Indigenism, 1995-2005, is a primary example of his fidelity.

On this episode of Conscientization 101 podcast, we present part one of a multipart dialogue we had with Ward Churchill regarding his perspicuous book Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays In Indigenism, 1995-2005.

Oh yeah, and we open this episode with one hell of a salvo!!!

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In renowned African psychologist’s, Dr. Wade Nobles, book Seeking the Sakhu: Foundational Writings For An African Psychology, Dr. Nobles breaks down the terms “Sakhu” and “Sheti” as the following:

Sakhu Sheti are two terms from the Medu Netcher (Egyptian Hieroglyphs). The word “Sahku” means ‘understanding, the illuminator, the eye and the soul of the being, that which inspires.’ “Sheti” means to go deeply into a subject…'” (pg. 395, footnote 36).

In our 50th podcast episode with U.K. based recording artist Raggo Zulu Rebel…“we came to a deeper understanding” about who we are as African people. So sit back and enjoy as we delve into such topics as: nationalism and cultural unity of Africa, cultural misorientation, the cultural basis of economics, and much more.

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Chairman Maf from his album Ginger: the tracks are “Imposter”, “Pear Tree”, “Besomuch and “Friday Night Soul” respectively, and

Raggo Zulu Rebel from his albums Selassie I Son (2007), The Return of Jah Messenger Vol. 2, and Jah Messenger: the tracks are “Dreadlocks Man ft. Spliff Range & Jah Mirikle”, “Deeper”, “Old School ft. Sicko”, “Skylarkin”, and “RasTafari ft. Jah Mirikle, Rass Gregg & Spliffy” respectively.

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Books mentioned in this episode were Chancellor Williams’s Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. and works by Ward Churchill.

We conclude our Ideopraxis Series with a digitally re-mastered presentation from Dr. John Henrik Clarke titled, The African World Under Siege!!!!

This presentation from Dr. Clarke took place at the Slave Theater in New York circa mid 1990’s. And in this presentation Dr. Clarke discusses the following:

(For more on this point see Part 1 and Part 2 of our dialogs with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book Is Apartheid Really Dead?: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives), and much more!

Dr. John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915-July 16, 1998) in the late 1960’s through the late 1980’s, was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York and as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center.

As an academician and intellectual, Dr. Clarke emerged as one of the leading theorists of African liberation and the uses of African history as a foundation and grounding for liberation. Under Dr. Clarke’s formulation liberation was defined not simply as freedom from European domination, but fundamentally as the restoration of African sovereignty. He explored history’s utility in moving an oppressed and subordinated people from a position of subjugation on multiple levels to full status as a self-sustaining, self-defining, self-directed, free, and independent people on a global stage.

Although a leader among European academy-trained African intellectuals who joined the European academy largely beginning in the late 1970’s, Clarke’s education and training were the product of a movement for the indigenization of African academic intellectualism in Harlem of the 1930’s that can be traced back to the early nineteenth century. Books authored by or about Dr. John Henrik Clarke in the Conscientization 101 Library include Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism, Africans at the Crossroads: Notes for an African World Revolution, and John Henrik Clarke and the Power of Africana History: Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereignty by Ahati N. N. Toure.

Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means “the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies” (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series.

Conscientization 101’s Ideopraxis Series is an extension of the tracks we produced for our FREE GIFT musical commentaries featuring Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke. These podcast episodes include lectures we have curated and digitally re-mastered from each of these African scholars in order to preserve these critical insights and analysis.

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Other books mentioned in this episode in the Conscientization 101 Library were Soledad Brother by George Jackson and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah.

In the conclusion of our digitally re-mastered presentation entitled Dr. Amos Wilson on Feel Good History, from our Ideopraxis Series, Dr. Wilson discusses the following:

Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means “the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies” (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series.

Conscientization 101’s Ideopraxis Series is an extension of the tracks we produced for our FREE GIFT musical commentaries featuring Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke. These podcast episodes include lectures we have curated and digitally re-mastered from each of these African scholars in order to preserve these critical insights and analysis.

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Books by Brother Amos in the Conscientization 101 Library include Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination, Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism, and Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century.

We continue with our digitally re-mastered presentation titled Dr. Amos Wilson on Feel Good History Part 2 of 3, from our Ideopraxis Series!!!

In this episode Dr. Wilson will be discussing the following:

Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means “the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies” (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series.

Conscientization 101’s Ideopraxis Series is an extension of the tracks we produced for our FREE GIFT musical commentaries featuring Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke. These podcast episodes include lectures we have curated and digitally re-mastered from each of these African scholars in order to preserve these critical insights and analysis.

This episode features music from:

Books by Brother Amos in the Conscientization 101 Library include Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination, Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism, and Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century.

We continue our Ideopraxis Series with part one of a three part digitally re-mastered presentation titled Dr. Amos Wilson on Feel Good History.

In part one, Dr. Wilson discusses the following:

In addition to Dr. Wilson’s presentation, we also discuss a commentary written by Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report managing editor, titled “Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data”, as it relates directly to our Ideopraxis Series and the importance of owning the content you produce.

Dr. Amos N. Wilson, was a social case worker, supervising probation officer, psychological counselor, training administrator in New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York.

He was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941 and completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College. He later moved to New York where he completed his masters at The New School For Social Research before attaining his doctorate from Fordham University, New York City, in the field of General Theoretical Psychology.

Familiarly referred to as Brother Amos, he availed himself for numerous appearances at educational, cultural and political organizations such as the First World Alliance, the Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Afrikan Echoes, House of Our Lord Church, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Slave Theatre and CEMOTAP to name just a few. His travels took him throughout the United States, to Canada and the Caribbean. Dr. Wilson’s activities transcended academia into the field of business, owning and operating various enterprises in the greater New York area.

A prolific writer, Wilson has penned other pertinent works in the areas of education, child development and therapeutic psychology. Brother Amos passed away on January 14, 1995. Books by Brother Amos in the Conscientization 101 Library include Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination, Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism, and Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century.

Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means “the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies” (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series.

Conscientization 101’s Ideopraxis Series is an extension of the tracks we produced for our FREE GIFT musical commentaries featuring Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke. These podcast episodes include lectures we have curated and digitally re-mastered from each of these African scholars in order to preserve these critical insights and analysis.

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We continue our Ideopraxis Series with the conclusion of Dr. Marimba Ani’s digitally re-mastered presentation of her critically acclaimed book, Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought And Behavior, where she discusses the following:

Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means “the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies” (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series.

Our Ideopraxis Series is an extension of our Conscientization 101 produced tracks from our FREE GIFT musical commentaries featuring Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke. These podcast episodes include lectures we have curated and digitally re-mastered from each of these African scholars in order to preserve these critical insights and analysis.

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Other works by Dr. Marimba Ani in the Conscientization 101 Library include Let The Circle Be Unbroken: The Implication of African Spirituality in the Diaspora.

Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar Ayi Kwei Armah, means “the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies” (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series. Our Ideopraxis Series is an extension of our Conscientization 101 produced tracks from our FREE GIFT musical commentaries featuring Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke.

These podcast episodes include lectures we have curated and digitally re-mastered from each of these African scholars in order to preserve these critical insights and analysis.

Our first installment is a lecture from Dr. Marimba Ani circa January 1995 at a gathering hosted by the Association for the study of Classical African Civilizations, ASCAC. In this lecture, she discusses the premise and substance of her critically acclaimed book, Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior, elucidating the following aspects:

In addition, we discuss the profundity of understanding Kwame Ture’s analysis that “power begins at the level of conception”, the intellectual insights gained from reading Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Dr. Chancellor Williams and Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah simultaneously, and much more. Other must read books mentioned, that are in the Conscientization 101 Library, are Kobi K.K. Kambon’s African/Black psychology in the American context: African-Centered Approach  and Dr. Marimba Ani’s Let The Circle Be Unbroken:The Implication of African Spirituality in the Diaspora.

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We are proud to be airing a digitally re-mastered lecture from a sister who is dedicated to the struggle and victory of Pan Afrikan liberation, unification and sovereignty, Affiong L. Affiong. In Weapons of Liberation, sister Affiong delves into:

In addition to sister Affiong’s lecture, we continue our discussion from our previous episode about a people’s conception of time. With the assistance of Jacob H. Carruthers’s Intellectual Warfare, and an epistemological curiosity, we denude the iniquitous notion that the imposition of the Gregorian calendar (Western time) should be coterminous to an African (or any other non-western people’s) weltanschauung, and much more!

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We closeout 2017, according to the Gregorian/Western calendar, with the conclusion of our two part series, Cyclonious: The Revival. In the conclusion we discuss: the inception of Cyclonious’s track “Invasion Day”, and the history, culture, and colonial living conditions of the Indigenous people of Australia. We also discussed Cyclonious’s track “Garvey”, and the importance of carrying forward the Garvey blueprint to carry forward African nationalism, and much more!

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