What We Do
“There is an intellectual past we are reclaiming
There is a future we are writing
There is a new identity we are creating
There is a consciousness we are awakening
From African to Negro to Black to African American
On the journey to an Africentric consciousness, where there are no geographic boundaries”
Brian J. Hill and Anissa D. Jones (2005)
SANKOFA
In the Akan language of Ghana and the Asante Adinkra symbol, Sankofa means one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge.
So in essence, we go back, retrieve and bring forward an intellectual past in order to write our future, create or maintain our identity and awaken our conscious to an understanding that we members of the African Diaspora must liberate ourselves from ideas that do not move us toward to goal of intellectual and economic freedom.
We are educators of the mind, body and spirit. Our commitments lie in making sure that members of the African Diaspora have a sense of Selfethnic that can’t be questioned. We prepare people for growth, learning and understanding of themselves as well as others. These commitments begin in the home with family however they do not end there. Finally, we are committed to the social, intellectual, emotional, financial, physical and spiritual growth of peoples of the African Diaspora…TOGETHER.
Why?
We’ve seen through our own experiences and in encounters with our students that the traditional education members of the African Diaspora receive in both public and private educational environments in the U.S., neglects to connect their education to community, culture and spirituality. Consequently, based on our values which connect culture, faith and community in the developmental process of members of the African Diaspora, we seek opportunities to reconnect students to these traditions as well as provide environments conducive to that reconnection.
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