The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #4.Diuturni Silenti/1924
Abstract: Focus of Chpter 4 & Lecture 4.
Read More about The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #4.Diuturni Silenti/19242013 Common Text author Wole Soyinka argues that as long as the past “is fictionalized or denied, Africa is doomed to the curse of repetition, albeit in disguised, even refined forms.” The sacred space of memory, he suggests, must be preserved.
The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #3.College-bred Community/1910
Abstract; Focus of Lecture 3.
Read More about The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #3.College-bred Community/1910Forced separation from our ancestral homelands due to enslavement threatened to dismember Africans, physically, emotionally and spiritually. These Africans—faced with deep trauma and accompanying feelings of abandonment in the unfamiliar, alien, and hostile colonial worlds of the Western Hemisphere—maintained and created memories, traditions, and communities from the rich and complex cultures of the African worlds they brought across the ocean.
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Read More about Gold Road Trade Routes MapThe Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #2. Galileo Galilei/1908
Abstract: Focus of Lecture #2, Omuluabi: Self Actualization and Communal Responsibility.
Success in acquiring true learning requires a certain kind of personality. From an African cultural perspective, Omoluabi is the essence of the human person, a wellspring of good character, exemplified by an understanding of the self and its responsibilities to the community. This lecture analyzes the concept of Omoluabi and its relevance in the project of useful learning.
--Dr. Segun Gbadegesin
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Abstract/Focus on Lecture #1
Transformative learning experiences involve more than acquiring academic knowledge. Such experiences must facilitate the gaining of wisdom, helping to build an enduring capacity to apply learning to meet communal challenges. This lecture examines the contribution to global traditions and innovations in teaching and learning from classical, medieval, and contemporary African experiences.
-- Dr. Gregory Carr
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On What A Negro College Should Be: Excerpted from The Field and Function of the Negro College
Lengthy...
Because it should be read in its entirety.
Read More about The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Ideal Negro College"Once upon a time some four thousand miles east of this place, I saw the functioning of a perfect system of education. It was in West Africa, beside a broad river; and beneath the palms, bronze girls were dancing before the president of Liberia and the native chiefs, to celebrate the end of the Bush retreat and their arrival at marriageable age.
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The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: Introduction
