Africa World Now Project

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  • Africa World Now Project is a multimedia educational project that produces knowledge about the African world through a series of methods that include: radio, podcast, publishing, film festivals, webinars, social media, etc. Africa World Now Project is, in essence, a multimedia open-access 'classroom' that provides actionable information which explores continuities and discontinuities in the history, culture, and politics of the entire African world. AWNP does this by engaging in organic discussions with scholars, artists, journalists, activists, organizers and others who are intentionally disruptive in assessing the various issues that exist in the entire African world.
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  • Kamau Rashid on Jacob H. Carruthers & an restoration of an african worldview

    Kamau Rashid on Jacob H. Carruthers & an restoration of an african worldview
    Nov 20 2024
    In the introduction of his recently published, Jacob H Carruthers and the Restoration of An African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert, Kamau Rashid [2024] posits that: “One of the central concerns evident in the scholarship of Jacob H. Carruthers was the intellectual foundations of the modern world. Although he acknowledged the importance of studying systems of oppression, he argued that such structures rested upon the foundation of Western thought, forms of knowledge that facilitated the formation of our most current systems of domination. In addition, these forms of knowledge also serve the primary function to maintain a particular world order as their application is constantly being refined and reinforced through false ideas about reality [Rashid, 2024; Carruthers, 1972/1999]. Carruthers work is occupied by a fundamental question that asks: how can African people who hope to free themselves from these structural and reinforcing mechanisms of domination do so when their conceptions of reality are constantly measured and derived from these very same ways of knowing that support these mechanisms of domination? Kamau Rashid, thinking with Carruthers, writes further that “knowledge, its production, legitimization, and transmission are shaped by the power relations of a society and through this, society’s institutions, therefore “the elite members of the politically dominant culture strategically impose their knowledge and worldview priorities” in a way that legitimizes their authority through these institutions [Rashid, 2024; Shujaa, 2003, 18]. Accordingly, there is little room for debate when it is argued that “schooling in the United States is a principal instrument of this hegemony.” “It is a process that does not typically privilege critical thought and action, but instead encourages conformity to hegemony, rewards apathy to the status quo, and punishes agency with regard to ideation or advocacy for revolutionary social change. From this perspective, it is with no surprise then, that “the operationalization of schooling is little more than a means for sustaining the legitimacy for a specific form of sociopolitical and economic order [Rashid, 2024].
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • land food & freedom w/ Georie Bryant

    land food & freedom w/ Georie Bryant
    Sep 18 2024
    The collectively generative nature inherent in the interdependent relationship between technology, the communal means of production and distribution and innovative physical and creative intellectual work is distracted and co/opted by the need to extract the value of this relationship as structured from the capitalist logic of labor. The sole purpose of this is to maintain an aggressive and exclusionary accumulation of capital in the hands of a few. The creative and inquisitive nature of human social and cultural capacities feed the extractive forces of capitalism. The necessity to disembody knowledge production and sever the symbiotic relationship between all sentient beings from nature and the universe is a muti-complex process of maintaining the supremacist ethic that organizes current political and economic relations. This fact, in its most theoretical and practical form, permeates the very cultural fabric of the dominant expression of global dis/order. In short, capitalism is the form that functions to create life itself, therefore work is re/defined as labor in order to extract its value in all forms, not for communal benefit but the aggressive and exclusionary aggregation of capital through intentionally violent processes. What are the material and intellectual contractions that indigenous African and African Diasporan communities must contend with in order to reconcile the social realities produced by capitalist logic today? At present, the dominant discourses of this reconciliation are centered around inherently detrimental practices, i.e., capitalism with a Blackface, the reproduction of the logic of private property as foundation to capital accumulation, etc. Where do we re/turn to find a path toward freedom as move down the road to liberation? Where do we find a platform or practice to reintegrate with our collective selves? It can be, and in the conversation with Georie Bryant you will hear next, found figuratively and literally with our hands in the soil. A re/connection with the Earth itself. In a material and non-material synthesis of struggle and building. The conversation you will hear next is a de/linking of capitalist logic of land as private property, food as African indigenous knowledge practices, and cooperatives outside of capitalist interpretations. In short, we explore African indigenous relationships with land and food, as inherited throughout the African world as means to freedom. Georie Bryant is a community organizer, chef, and agriculturalist native to Durham, N.C. Working both through his organization SymBodied and in collaboration with other organizations in the region, Georie seeks to address issues of historical and contemporary oppression, particularly those centered around food insecurity, cultural erasure and appropriation. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; Ghana; Ayati; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Listen intently. Think critically. Act accordingly.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • echoes of FESTAC '77 w/ Bro Abdul Alkalimat

    echoes of FESTAC '77 w/ Bro Abdul Alkalimat
    Aug 8 2024
    https://www.instagram.com/africaworldnowproject/ https://linktr.ee/Africaworldnowproject The use of forum, colloquium, and festivals to center African/a intellectual creative cultural production flows rhythmically alongside the long tradition of Pan-African tendencies. This historical continuity and our duty to move within its legacy is a project that the International Colloquium at the International Black Theatre Festival, that we [AWNP collective] have the pleasure to coordinate, is the explicit dictum that guides it creation. Furthering our work in this Pan-African genealogy is intentional. Our theme this year was titled: ‘Echoes of FESTAC ’77’. For the 2024 iteration of the international colloquium, as we continue think deeply about form and function and its relationship to critical consciousness formation and radical practice in the use of the arts to map and proliferate Black/African sociopolitical and cultural life, we had the pleasure of being in dialogue with Dr. Abdul Alkalimat, who was at FESTAC ’77 [for more, visit https://www.alkalimat.org/festac/]. In fact, you will hear his presentation given at FESTAC ’77 in this program. As part of a consortium of cultural workers, intellectuals, activists/organizers, Dr. Alkalimat along with Dr. Ron Walters, Dr. Maulana Karenga, and a host of others took part in the colloquium. Dr. Abdul Alkalimat is one of the founders of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar/organizer with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught, and directed academic programs across the U.S., the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and China. I would be remiss to not highlight that along with Dr. Alkalimat, we were joined by artists and cultural scholars from Nova Scotia, Canada, where they explored the continuities in the histories of people of African descent in Canada. We had the pleasure to be in conversation with Walter Borden as he presented: The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time, a powerful autobiographical play and the story of Walter Borden’s life, his life’s work, and his letter to the world. An artist and cultural worker, Mr. Borden is an internationally acclaimed and nationally honoured African/Indigenous actor and activist born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. His activism spans six decades while his professional acting career is in its 54th year. He has performed throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. We look to bring you his thoughts and meditations in the coming programs on Africa World Now Project. As you prepare to engage this program … we share this meditation we hope will guide you as you share your time and energy with us … The universe of thought and ideas are the playground of Africana creativity. Black life lives on the fulcrum of the seen and unseen, constantly merging theory and practice … Effortlessly creating, recreating – through radical acts of remembering moving in and out of the deep well of Africana ways of being and forms of knowing, this is the essence of Black cultural production, the production of life itself. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; Ghana; Ayati; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Listen intently. Think critically. Act accordingly. Link to paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_NFkkpy8dSySP6PtmqjBF5aM-3aTM8m/view?usp=sharing
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    1 hr and 4 mins

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Refreshing!

Professor Paul Zeleza brings perspective to how we as non-African natives view the African Diaspora in terms of education and religion. The baseline of our knowledge production is heavily influenced by the constructed agenda of those who want to control the narrative which in turn are highly inaccurate. The challenges of access and resources to higher education in certain areas of the African continent, and opportunities to build universities that help build the intellectual economy and so much more! I am eager to knowledge build with more works from Paul Zeleza. This was a refreshing build for critical thought on the global level in our current situation…

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