AFRICOLOGY: A NEW AFRIKAN GUIDING SYNOPSIS OF RBG COMMUNIVERSITY EDUCATION
THE ICE BREAKER VIDEOS, THEN YOU'LL BE PROPERLY PREPARED TO READ THE GUIDE
From Blue Print for Black Power / Dr. Wilson
The RBG Blue Print Study Cell
POWER AND PERSONALITY
I. Spirituality and the Psycho-Affective
SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
Aim: To transmit the knowledge of Afrikan spiritual tradition, and develop an appreciation for tradition and the ability to apply the major principles to self, family and community
MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Aim: To foster an understanding and willingness to be guided by those principles that characterizes the righteous and just person
FAMILY AS BASIC SPIRITUAL AND MORAL UNIT
Aim: To develop an understanding an appreciation for the dynamics affecting the Afrikan family; to recognize its centrality to the Afrikan nationality, and work to revitalize it
SELF-KNOWLEDGE/PRACTICE
Aim: To facilitate the achievement of total knowledge of self as a unique extension of the collective, defined by the collective and committed to it
ANCESTRAL VENERATION
Aim: To facilitate the acquisition and valuing of the wisdom of the ancestors; and to foster a commitment to restore their works and make those works even better than before
II. Cultural and Ideological
Aim: To develop and inform a complete more comprehensive historical consciousness, from antiquity to the contemporary, that will be the basis for Afrikan unity and development
AFRIKAN HERITAGE AND CULTURAL UNITY
Aim: To develop an appreciation of the need to foster cultural, and political unity among all Afrikan people, and to commit oneself to that task
BLUEPRINT FOR BLACK POWER
I. Cultural/Ideological
A. Culture and Ideology
B. Creativity
II. Spiritual/Psycho-Affective
A. Self Knowledge
B. Ethnics and Morality
III. Socio-Political and Economic
A. Political Economy
B. Cognition and Inquiry
C. Technology
D. Mathematics
E. Sciences
F. Computer Science
IV. Technology
A. Mathematics
B. Science
C. Computer Science
D. Functional Skills
V. Nationbuilding (Practical Applications)
A. Career Development Apprenticeships
B. Research Theory and Practicums
C. Community Development Projects
D. Organizational Experience
Each curricular domain includes several specific subjects that are integrated to reduce the compartmentalization that is typical of subject centered curriculum.
You will quickly notice that RBG Street Scholars Think Tank flows seamlessly across websites and social networks. Presently, we have 70 websites / networks comprising over 50,000 RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects) and media assets all concentricly integrated and linked to hundreds of robust Afrikan-centered websites. (A COLLEGE IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD) The Zine pilots enable you to access and navigate everything without ever having to leave the college. The various integrated curricula that comprise the communiversity represent learning assets which are delivered via electronic dialogue between us (self-directed co-learners and expert tutors / facilitators of Afrikan descent). We all share a common purpose, depend upon each other and are accountable to each other for the collective's and the school's academic success. We are an interactive groups in which everyone actively communicates and negotiates higher learning activities with one another within a contextual framework facilitated by online tutors / experts / elders and ancestors. The entire school is about us, by us and for us--Afrikan Peoples Development / socially, politically, economically, educationally and morally.
Dr. Akbar & Dr. Hilliard on Voices From the Village
"A Curriculum Overview Booklet"
RBGz Student-Teacher Users Guide: A Basic Primer
IN CLASSICAL AFRIKAN (KEMETIC) PHIOLOSOPHY THE HUMAN BEING AND HUMAN REALITY WERE GOVERNED BY THE BASIC DIVINE LAW OF “TO BE A SPIRIT”. THE MORAL MANDATE OF AFRIKAN HUMANITY WAS “TO BECOME AND IN BECOMING”---THE PURSUIT OF SUCH DIVINE LAW AND MORAL MANDATE WAS REFLECTIVE OF ONES PURSUIT OF GODLINESS. EDUCATION WAS KEY TO THIS PROCESS-TO BECOME AND IN BECOMING A MORE PERFECT BEING. FOR OUR AFRIKAN ANCESTORS EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING WAS ULTIMATELY ABOUT A PERSON BEING TRANSFORMED FROM A LESSER MATERIAL BEING TO A GREATER SPIRITUAL BEING.
DR. E. CURTIS ALEXANDER DEFINES AFRICAN CENTERED EDUCATION AS "A SYSTEM OF SEQUENTIALLY PLANNED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED FOR AFRICAN HERITAGE CHILDREN, YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS TO DEVELOP THE NECESSARY AND REQUIRED SKILLS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE WITH SPECIFIC INTEREST ON THE UPLIFTMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF THEIR AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES AND THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT."
HENCEFORTH, RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK WILL USE HISTORY, CURRENT EVENTS AND THE MANY VARIABLES OF NEW AFRIKAN CULTURE TO FACILITATE A FORWARD-LOOKING AND FUTURISTIC EDUCATION, SOCIALIZATION AND NEW AFRIKAN PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. AN EDUCATION MOST FUNDAMENTALLY GROUNDED IN PSYCHO-CULTURAL, SOCIO-POLITICAL, POLITICO-ECONOMIC AND MORO-SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION.
Student Body Constitution and Bylaws
OVERALL GOALS OF THE COMMUNIVERSITY:
2.To expose learners to a Concentrically Integrated African-Centered Liberal Arts Curriculum--including, online mini-lectures, commentaries and interviews from our authors, playwrights, poets, activist and scholars--that will enable large amounts of information to be comprehended in a relatively short period of time.
3.To continue the development of an appreciation of Afrikan-Centered Education propagated through the Afrikan oral & musical traditions; including Afrikan Drums, Spoken Word / Rap, R & B, Blues, Jazz and Reggae.
4.To draw lessons from the rich legacy of struggle and resistance to oppression within the African American community through critical analysis of videos, photo-stories, multimedia essays and PowerPoint shows and scholarly charts, tables, graphs and PDF documents; thus fostering socio-political activism in the learners own lives.
5.To develop, encourage and diversify strategies for learning about and responding to social, political, cultural and moral issues impacting Afrikans in America, thus increasing comprehension and interpretation skills.
6.To synthesize serious community issues using multi-faceted content and learning objects which represent the perspective of those who are in an American minority group; and apply said principles and generalizations in investigation of societal issues and problems from an Afrikan-Centered perspective.
7.Finally and most importantly, to teach and learn from aspiring and seasoned teachers within a sophisticated SDL (Self Directed Learning)--e classes environment how to become more effective teachers, leaders and activist. We sharpen academic professionals and community educators / street scholars skills in the areas of public speaking, reading and writing critically and designing captivating presentation suitable for both whole-group and small-group settings. In other words, this is where the tutors (RBG Street Scholar) and other facilitators teach you how to become inspirer and healer of our people. Not only do we develop your skills, but we also provides you with the content to do you thang. You will even learn how to modify the content provided such that it becomes a new derivative product all you own; to do what you will, ie. teach from it, barter it etc.
Enjoy your Sankofa and let us know what you think
In keeping with the spirit of Sankofa ("return and get it" a West African Symbol of Adinkra Wisdom representing the importance of our learning from the past) you should keep in mind that in the societies of our Afrikan ancestors and current kinsman the oral tradition was / is the method of choice in which history, stories, folktales and spiritual beliefs were /are passed on from generation to generation. Webster's dictionary defines "oral" as, "spoken rather than written," and it defines the word "tradition" as, "transmittal of elements of a culture from one generation to another especially by oral communication." It is the power of the Afrikan oral tradition integrated with written documentation that lays at the core of our trailblazing teaching / learning methodology.
Your studies, analysis and evaluations should constantly ask and answer “what a given classroom / subject / topic’s content is intending to elucidate (explain)—(ie. elements and aspects of oppression or liberation); and always why and how. RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is essentially a concentricly integrated articulation of and defense for a radically progressive New Afrikan educational process. With strict attention to developing our student’s basic education skills in the context of the highest standards of academic excellence, suitable for one to confidently sit for high stake exams, we simultaneously advance the psycho-emotional healing and spiritual upliftment of our people by providing knowledge, wisdom and overstanding of the historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational experiences of Africans in America in a way that radically reappraises education from the pained and angry perspective of the oppressed black community.
The content and methods of our school are meant to demonstrates how the mediumsSH-- HOP and STUDIO PRANKSTA RAP MISICK, spoken word and images have been/ are used to create incarcerated minds, bodies and spirits; and thus in turn, how they can as well be used to foster physical, mental and spiritual liberation by bringing our mass community into AFRIKAN CONSCIOUSNESS, COMMITMENT AND CONDUCT.
Historically poetry/ rap, literature and music have been combined to play a pivotal role in black progress and power in the Americas. It all goes back to the power and central role of the Afrikan oral tradition. For example, our ancestors communicated with drums. “Because of the perceived potential of the talking drum to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave traders and thus to incite rebellion, revolt, resistance and revolution, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by African in the United States.
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank intends to serve as a premier
“New-Age Talking Drum”
(Radio and TV driven) primacy:
1. Firstly, We believe that the ultimate end of intellectual growth and development for students of Afrikan decent in 21st America is, first and foremost, a deeper overstanding and a fuller appreciation of Afrikan peoples continuing struggle for individual and collective liberation. Reading, thinking, looking and listening with close attention to the curricula’s scholastic guidance you learn to see more, understand more and uncover more, thus preparing for a richer, more selfless and more meaningful contributions to self and kind.
2. Secondly, as music and videos use artful combinations of language and images, the essential processes of meaning-making, to formulate ideas in the minds of the participants, critical analysis can lead to a more astute and powerful use of Black music and images (espically that of the hip-hop / rap music genre ) as tools of Africentric cultural development and leadership training.
3. Thirdly, critical analysis of RBG’s audio-visual content and methods very efficiently teaches us to be aware of the cultural delineations of popular / white corporate media, including its ideological elements and psyops motivations.
4. Finally, please remember, education is not eternal and timelessly written in stone, but should be situated historically, socially, intellectually, written and read at particular times, with particular intents, under particular historical conditions, with particular cultural, personal, gender, racial, class and other perspectives at center. Through multimedia learning we can see ideology in operation. We think this new style of teaching is of particular use in an age where so many of us, sad to say, don't read, but use popular media as a sole source of information. Thus, RBGz curricula are designed to encourage and enhance critical reading, thinking, writing skills, problem solving and Nationhood by initiating scholarly academic pursuits with videos / photo-story mini-lectures, images and music / spoken word,.
Healing is work, not gambling. It is the work of inspiration, not manipulation. If we the healers are to do the work of helping bring our whole people together again, we need to know such work is the work of a community. It cannot be done by an individual. It should not depend on people who do not understand the healing vocation….The work of healing is work for inspirers working long and steadily in a group that grows over generations, until there are inspirers, healers wherever our people are scattered, able to bring us together again.
In the words of Sekou Toure “to us, Revolution means the collective movement initiated by a group of men or by a whole people, and supported by their conscious determination to change an old degrading order into a new, progressive order in view of ensuring the safeguard and development of collective and individual interests, without any discrimination whatsoever. The People’s Revolution, to us, remains thus a collective consciousness in motion, and a collective movement guided by conscience and whose ultimate aim is the continued progress of man and the People.”
From: http://www.panafricanperspective.com/ture2.htm
To Overstand How The School Works Further Please Read:
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Rules Of Engagement- 2nd Qt. Update ...
RBGz Essential Foundational Readers: For All RBG Student-Teachers
RBG as Re-Afrikanization Symbolism: Who We Were vs Who We Are
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