New Afrikan Consciousness vs. New African Thought: Mysticism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Ghanda (be initiated) in traditional Africa is a synonym (in Bantu language) in our modern expression that denotes “to go to college/university”-Wenda ku Luyalungunu. “To be initiated is to be ready to accept responsibility, both as a mature human being and as a powerful spiritual being.

       To be initiated is to acquire the highest knowledge that the community experience has accumulated through time and space. To have the power to see, feel, hear, touch, and taste what the ordinary way of life does not allow us......it is to walk a path of mastering knowledge in life. It is to be seen and to see oneself before the mirror of fathomless knowledge of life. It is learning to see the past in order to predict the future. It is feeling and holding tightly the past segment of the biogenetic rope in his/her hands to insure its linkage to the future.

         Ghanda (to be initiated) is to join the circle of masters and become, oneself, a doer.” -Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Paper presented to the 

Convention for a New Afrikan Thought 

hosted by the 

International Centre for Research and Documentation 

on African Traditions and Languages 

Yaounde, Cameroon, 25 - 27 October 2022

Praxeological Theme # 3 

New African Thought on knowledge and being…

HERE IS THE EXECUTIVE PRESENTATION - 6 PAGES

HERE IS THE FULL PAPER - 87 PAGES

From (left to right): Professor Molefi K Asante, Professor Anita Diop, Professor Dolissane Cecile, and Siphiwe Baleka.

During Professor Asante’s presentation, he emphasised the necessity of beginning with a proper chronology in order to orientate and understand historical events. If you don’t know your history from its pre-Kemetic origins, you can’t understand the major events of world history and more importantly, you cannot derive present solutions for the benefit of Africa’s future.

Above: Professor Theophile Obenga giving the opening address. From Left to right: Professor Theophile Obenga; Charles Binam Bikoi, CERDOTOLA; Professor Gregoire Biyogo, President of the International Committee of African Scientists and Experts; Professor Ebenezer Mouelle, Founder, Academy of Cameroonian Philosophy

Professor Biyogo discussing Asymmetrical Mirror Theory and Displacement Modes of Fighters from the mortal to immortal realms from the Ekang people and the ability for instantaneous teleportation of objects and bodies and the implication for Africa.

Professor Gregoire Biyogo and Siphiwe Baleka

Professor Urbain Amoa and Professor Anita Diop

NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Statement to the 20th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration

Civil Society Section Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

INVITATION

On behalf of the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (IGWG), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights presents its compliments to civil society organizations, particularly people of African descent organizations and has the honour to refer to resolution A/RES/76/226 of December 2021, in which the General Assembly requested the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to devote at least half of its annual session to the elaboration of a draft United Nations Declaration on the promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent. On 10 June 2022, the Chairperson of the IGWG met regional coordinators. In order to facilitate discussions during the IGWG 20th session, the Chairperson proposed to prepare a Chair’s zero draft United Nations Declaration on the promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent. As requested by resolution A/RES/76/226, the Chairperson will also consult with the Permanent Forum on People of African descent and the Working Group of Experts on People of African descent to seek their views on the draft declaration. These two mechanisms will be also invited to the IGWG 20th session, which will take place from 10th to 21 October 2022, in Palais des Nations, Geneva. The Chair’s zero draft declaration will also take into account inputs from Member States, UN agencies and human rights mechanisms, and civil society, particularly people of African descent organizations. The Chairperson will share the zero draft with the IGWG two weeks prior to the discussion of the draft. Civil society organizations are therefore invited to share their views on the scope of the draft United Nations Declaration on the promotion and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent, and in particular the key human rights and specific guarantees the draft Declaration should include. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights would be grateful if submissions could be limited to five pages and sent to the Anti-Racial Discrimination Section at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, CH-1211, Geneva 10.

Pursuant to the invitation, the Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America submitted its statement, on behalf of the New Afrikan Independence Movement.