Pan African Consciousness Renaissance

20 WAYS TO KILL AN AFRIKAN ORGANIZATION

1. Don’t attend meetings. Never tender your apology.

2. When you do attend, be sure to leave before the meeting is over.

3. The next day, find faults with the officers and committees.

4. Take no part in the organization’s affairs. Plant doubt about the organization's relevance by consistently dropping small "observations" that "it only talks and doesn't do anything practical"...

5. At every meeting and event, be sure to sit in the back, so you can talk with a friend.

6. Dig up all the dirt you can about leaders and members. Somebody may have dated a white person when they were 16. Or have a Portuguese grandmother. Or not speak an Afrikan language well. Make THAT the center of attention.

7. Never ask anyone to join the organization.

8. Talk cooperation but never cooperate. Use empty, militant slogans. Shout "Kill White People", and question everyone who doesn't shout the same back - but do not develop any revolutionary action plan.

9. If asked to help with anything, always say you don’t have time.

10. Never accept a position of responsibility, as it is easier to criticize when you are not burdened with tasks you need to perform.

11. If appointed to a committee, never give any time or service to it.

12. Never do anything more than you have to, and when others willingly and unselfishly use their ability to help the cause along, then shout that the organization is run by a clique.

13. Spread rumors that you “think you might have observed” the organization’s leadership mismanaging funds, or spread a juicy rumor about an alleged affair – drama always derails the organization’s focus.

14. Instead of bringing issues of concern directly to the committee, rant on social media and expose sensitive information.

15. Make sure you exploit the potential for chaos in every minor imperfection. If nothing else helps, shout that you have been discriminated against based on language, ethnicity, complexion or nationality – it is always successful.

16. When asked to submit practical suggestions, instead, use the platform to vent your own frustrations and philosophies, and offer no way forward.

17. Make sure you get your points across by shouting, intimidating and pointing fingers at someone else. Always someone else!

18. Never praise anyone for their efforts, ensure that everyone remains suspicious of anyone who does something willingly – they must surely have a secret agenda.

19. If you are a brother, make sure you intimidate sisters and oppose any form of women leadership and empowerment.

20. If you are a sister, make sure you vent your frustration about how useless brothers are. All the time.

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If you do this you will make sure no Afrikan organization can rise to a level of having any significant impact. White power will love you forever! (Read. Internalize. Commit. Forward.)

HARVESTING AFRIKAN POWER: Ebukhosini Solutions is proud to introduce this vibrant team who will bring you the 23rd insert of the KWANZAA Festival in Azania this December.

Covering PR, Logistics, Program and Finance, this team will ensure that the annual Pan-Afrikan Family Gathering will be on point.

Your assistance is needed: Follow and share on social media, contribute resources and make sure YOU are in Soweto on 26 December!

Let us BIG UP this team and make their hard work and sacrifices worthwhile.

GRAND GRATITUDE: I want to give the biggest shoutouts and humble thank you’s to the incredible team behind Black Education Masterclass SEASON 5. Over the last four months, this team of Warrior Builders have worked insanely hard to bring Season 5 to life: With 10 Afrikan-centered Walimu (teachers) covering ten vital topics within the disciplines of OurStory, Self-Empowerment, Consciousness, Philosophy, Health, Economy, Education, Spirituality, Arts and Leadership. This virtual classroom has become a revolutionary space for decolonial studies, radical interrogation, re-Afrikanized inspiration and critical practice, encouraging Afrikans in many corners of the Black World to get up, stand up and don’t give up the fight.

Collectively, we have many things to be concerned about within the Afrikan Community, but we also need to give credit where it is due. As someone who has worked for more than 35 years within Pan-Afrikan consciousness development, it means SO much to see current young leaders invest in the Black Mind, the Black Being and the Power of Us. I honor you deeply, Difference Mabasa, Nokulunga Buthelezi, Junior Lesumu, Thoriso Manamela, Kea Monama, Thabelo Nematangari, Teboho Mputhi, Maikano Komane, Nzanoa Liango and Isaac Motsi – for your dedication, your sacrifice and your insistence on delivering unapologetic Afrikan wisdom, for Afrikan people. Especially, I want to salute the leadership of Difference Mabaso; for three years you have given your all as Team Lead and steered the work with care, intentionality and efficiency: THANK YOU!

I also want to give heartfelt appreciation to our excellent WALIMU: Knowledge holders and practitioners with a deep commitment to Afrikan liberation. You have so graciously shared, taught, provoked and challenged us to BE who we say we ARE. I bow to you, Walimu Mokong Mapadimeng (Azania), Tharollo Seatlholo (Azania) , Ayabulela Mhlahlo (Azania), Pobee Mwintombo (Ghana), Amen Imhotep Ptah (USA/Azania), Rahab Njeri (Kenya/Germany), Elizabeth Hoorn-Petersen (Azania), Simphiwe Sesanti (Azania), Eva Kwamou Feukeu (Cameroon) and Dobijoki Emanuela Bringi (Sudan) – for the gift you are to Afrikan Nationbuilding and our collective restoration project. And, to our brilliant Moderators: Thank you for keeping the classroom on fire!

And a badge of honor is extended to each BEM participant who tuned in, engaged, shared from their own pool of wisdom and positioned critical questions. Your faith, support and Black Love is noted and appreciated greatly.

As we internalize the lessons of Season 5 and prepare ourselves for Season 6 in 2025, we also bow in honor of the Son of the Soil and founder of Arise Black Child, Warrior Sandile Msibi, who initiated the Black Education Masterclass – as a vehicle to dismantle our colonial mindsets. We lost you in the physical realm, but your footsteps in this world continues through BEM. May your soul Rise in Power.

Afrikans; the struggle continues. We have a mission to fulfil. Lets go!

SALUTATIONS! I cannot but salute the many Daughters and Sons that I have been blessed to journey with in this life. The potent power of Afrika is so explosively embedded within the many young warriors who are rising all around us. Culturally, men are called to fathering way beyond biological seeding. When we don’t answer this call, we also make a decision to extend our downfall as a people. Thank you, young dedicated Afrikans, for the limitlessness you represent. May more of us inject you with the support, faith and rooting you need to bring us back to our place of power.

Recently I was invited by Unisa - The University of South Africa as an adjudicator for academic staff being nominated for innovative and exceptional approaches to tuition, module design, assessment, student support, transformation and scholarship. As a team, we examined PoE’s (Portfolios of Evidence) and engaged in a rigorous scoring process based on a number of criteria to select winners. The standard was impressively high and a great number of innovative solutions were presented. It felt unfair to only select a few, when several submissions were of such high quality. fThe awards were presented at the Teaching and Learning Festival hosted at UNISA. The theme for the awards was “Educating for Social Justice”.

On a critical note, the experience left me pondering on at least two problematic aspects of the role of Afrikan academics: The level of critical engagement with “theoretical foundations", and the approach to “Africanization”.

There is a disturbing tendency among Afrikan academics to accept the theories that are presented as foundational to academic disciplines without interrogating the worldviews they have been conceptualized within. Some may desire to skip what is seen as being “overly critical” – but omitting this duty makes you complicit, not only in protecting western/invasive truths, but literally silencing/incapacitating Afrikan epistemologies. Our subconsciousness has been trained to conclude that the absence of Afrikan-centered knowledge must logically derive from its inability to describe the worlds we want to interrogate. The desire of any Western-rooted institution is to make the Black employer an alibi and a willing perpetrator in its culture of violence.

Also, I shiver when Afrikan academics use terms like “decolonization”, “de-Westernization” and “Africanization”, while, in fact, they are describing diversity, inclusivity and broadening the academic traditions. To diversify and open up spaces are not necessarily part of a critical engagement, nor an Afrikan-centered initiative. The practice of decolonizing is brutal and never liked, because it disrupts and breaks institutional rules in ways that are experienced as provocative and violating to the colonial assets we are expected to protect. To Africanize – for real, for real – is to engage boldly with aspects that academic institutions were never intending to internalize.

I am not raising these questions to appear clever and pushing down on hard working Sisters and Brothers in the Afrikan University. I am fully aware of the dynamics most Afrikan academics need to confront on a daily basis; and I appreciate the many who stand their grown, put down their feet and deliver for the Afrikan collective. But I am equally concerned about the work for “social justice”, which fails to attack the systemic foundation the traditions of injustice are built on; especially within institutions that often gives us the illusion that they are genuinely working to dismantle them…. – while, actually, being an integral part.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LAND, IN AN AFRIKAN-CENTERED, FUTURISTIC PERSPECTIVE? How do we operate within colonized legal and economic frameworks to develop capacity to decolonize? In Ebukhosini Solutions’ 9th class of Black Education Masterclass Season 5, we will listen to thought-provoking insights from a specialist on Anticipation, Futures Literacy and Decolonial application – Mwalimu Kwamou Eva Feukeu (Cameroon – see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamou/?locale=en_US ).

The session will be moderated by eBukhosini’s Board Member and social media expert, Khanyisa Mhlongo (Azania).

eBukhosini Solutions welcomes you to another revolutionary lecture!

Date/time: Thursday 26 September, 7pm (SAST)
Platform: Zoom (ONLY registered participants can take part!)

Black Education Masterclass is a virtual program and you have to register in order to take part. Follow this link: https://forms.gle/k7W8aCzxTg1ARX1r8 and pay the once-off registration fee of R100/ $10.

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Recently, The Innovation Hub invited me to engage BA students in the Department of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) at University Of Venda. For three days I provoked and pushed the students to apply their critical thinking, holistic knowledge and skills with unapologetic Afrikan purpose. The content is part of an Entrepreneurial Program (“CoachLab”) and in my modules I insist on laying a foundation through Pan-Afrikan philosophy, Black Consciousness and Decolonial Practice.

Coming from an era where it was quite unthinkable to see IKS becoming a full study at University level, I am glad that doors have been opened – but I am also deeply concerned about the many missing pieces. The politics of Afrika’s IKS cannot just be about proving the validity of our science on Western terms; constantly seeking the approval from those who intentionally massacred our wisdom. It cannot be cute, colourful and interesting.

To engage with IKS is to go into combat. It is to raise the bar. It is, for the Afrikan being, to become again. It brings into the room ancient voices, troubled personalities, generations of shame and bewildering question marks. Because, integral to propagating IKS, is the Afrikan confronting her/him-self. The weakest link in our assembling of Mama Afrika’s knowledge is our own doubt, embarrassment and under-expectations from high science we struggle to connect with. Hence, the student of IKS MUST be provoked, pushed and challenged; if we truly are to collectively benefit from your journeys of awakening.

THE EXPERIENCE OF YOUNG AFRIKAN ENTREPRENEURS: In our collective struggle as Afrikan people, we recognize that economic power is a crucial part of BLACK POWER. But we are also painfully aware of the many young Afrikans who are squeezed out, side-lined, taken advantage of and end up failing in business development.

What are some helpful strategies for young Black entrepreneurs? How can young Afrikans achieve, not only individual success, but contribute to broader empowerment of our communities? We would like to draw some lessons from the experience of Afrikan youth who are currently entrepreneurs and are doing well in their fields.

Ebukhosini Solutions invite you to a Webinar-Dialogue where the focus will be: “The challenges and successes faced by Afrikan youth in the field of entrepreneurship”. To spark creative thoughts,
Monica Soyemi (Real Estate) and Alphy Mamabolo (IT and Property Investment) will share some insights from their own entrepreneurial journeys. Thereafter, the mic is opened to all Black voices who want to speak truth to power. The dialogue will be hosted by PitsiRa Ragophala, director of eBukhosini Solutions.

Date and time:
Wednesday 25 September 2024
From 18:00 - 19:30 (SAST)

Platform:
Zoom / Facebook Live

Send DM to +27 67 249 9818 to receive the Zoom link for this dialogue. Or watch Live on Facebook: Ebukhosini Solutions.

HONORING AN AFRIKAN GIANT: Madisebo University Research Institute in collaboration with eBukhosini Solutions invite the Afrikan Family to an online uMsamo Symposium in Honor and Celebration of Mocholoko Dr. Zulumathabo Zulu Legacy.

The event will feature teachings from some of the unbought and unsold architects of the African destiny; esteemed scholars such as Prof Vusi Gumede, Dr. Tsholofelo Mosala, Elder Ntate Tshediso Mosia, Prof Mokong Mapadimeng, and Itumeleng Tumie Gaseitsiwe.

Date and time:
Wednesday 18 September 2024
From 17:00 - 19:30 (SAST)

ZOOM link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83154850725?pwd=BoLqzCgN9wHSburADa8ozzPOCVeqgJ.1

HONORING OUR SISTERS! Do not forget to tune in to Ebukhosini Solutions' Dialogue Webinar later today: THE ROLE OF AFRIKAN WOMEN IN THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE.

Warrior Sisters, Mhlahlo and Wéma Ragophala will provoke our thoughts; thereafter the mic is opened to all Black voices who want to speak truth to power. The dialogue will be hosted by PitsiRa Ragophala, director of eBukhosini Solutions.

Date and time:
Wednesday 28 August 2024
From 18:00 - 19:30 (SAST)

Theme/Topic:
The Role of Afrikan Women in the Liberation Struggle; Past, Present and Future

Platform:
Zoom / Facebook Live
Send DM to +27 67 249 9818 to receive the Zoom link for this dialogue. Or watch Live on Facebook: Ebukhosini Solutions.

Welcome to TeenTalks:
A MOTIVATIONAL PROGRAM for Young BLACK Men (12-19). Spread the word!

On Sunday 1 September, eBukhosini Solutions starts up the next semester of Shabaka TeenTalks; a virtual program for Black teenage men, where they get an opportunity to learn, ask questions, explore ideas, reflect on self-development and make good choices for their lives.

The program takes place on Zoom, on Sundays from 6pm to 7pm. topics that are addressed include: Skills development, self discipline, cultural literacy, critical thinking and setting life goals as Afrikan Men – and much more. It also includes dialogues, exercises, games and presentations. Sessions are facilitated by men who have participated in SHABAKA’s programs for many years, and have long experience in creating meaningful learning journeys.

The free Orientation Session on Sunday is for 12-19 year olds (parents can also take part); where more information about the program will be shared.

Sign up by sending a WhatsApp message to: 074 690 4012
(If you agree that this work is important, share the invitation with your networks!)