Pan African Consciousness Renaissance

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.

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.