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Seba Kwesi Damani Agyekum (Damani Saunderson) is the author of Distorted Truths: The Bastardization of Afrikan Cosmology, the groundbreaking book that establishes the foundations of Afrikan thought and offers a path for Afrikan Restoration. Damani has just finished a soon to be published volume based on the Haitian Revolution and Haitian history. He is a retired High School history teacher. Every Tuesday @7 he can be seen on cprreggae.org's "Social Living" program where he is co-host along with Carlyle McKetty. Social Living examines quality of life issues relevant to Afrikan people worldwide. Damani is also a member of the Pan African Strategy and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) and the Global African People Institute (GAPI). He is also an entrepreneur and member of ULU, an economic empowerment cooperative. Presently, he and his wife live in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where he is a father of five and grandfather of two. In his spare time he is a practitioner of several yoga systems, and an Afrikan martial arts system (YARA).
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This paper reexamines four ideas presented by eminent scholars concerning the worldview of the an... more This paper reexamines four ideas presented by eminent scholars concerning the worldview of the ancient Kemeyu (Egyptians). Using traditional Afrikan epistemology, ontology, and cultural anthropology, we evaluate the Kemet worldview, thereby placing it within an Afrikan cosmological schema, and as a result offering a truer and more accurate account of that ancient Afrikan high culture.
The Western philosophical tradition, with its tremendous emphasis on questioning and the belief t... more The Western philosophical tradition, with its tremendous emphasis on questioning and the belief that intellectual discourse is conducive to ascertaining “truth,” has spurred many theories, often contradictory, especially in regards to human nature. We will discuss several Western theories and philosophies and then contrast them with Afrikan Cosmological thought.
While I acknowledge the capacity to do good or ill lies within the person; there may perhaps be a... more While I acknowledge the capacity to do good or ill lies within the person; there may perhaps be a biochemical element to racial behavior, as well as the understood sociocultural component. This brief paper relies on my work, Distorted Truths, and uses the reproductive metaphor to address brain functioning. An improperly functioning Endocrine system and pineal gland are here cited as possible "culprits."
This paper reexamines four ideas presented by eminent scholars concerning the worldview of the an... more This paper reexamines four ideas presented by eminent scholars concerning the worldview of the ancient Kemeyu (Egyptians). Using traditional Afrikan epistemology, ontology, and cultural anthropology, we evaluate the Kemet worldview, thereby placing it within an Afrikan cosmological schema, and as a result offering a truer and more accurate account of that ancient Afrikan high culture.
The Western philosophical tradition, with its tremendous emphasis on questioning and the belief t... more The Western philosophical tradition, with its tremendous emphasis on questioning and the belief that intellectual discourse is conducive to ascertaining “truth,” has spurred many theories, often contradictory, especially in regards to human nature. We will discuss several Western theories and philosophies and then contrast them with Afrikan Cosmological thought.
While I acknowledge the capacity to do good or ill lies within the person; there may perhaps be a... more While I acknowledge the capacity to do good or ill lies within the person; there may perhaps be a biochemical element to racial behavior, as well as the understood sociocultural component. This brief paper relies on my work, Distorted Truths, and uses the reproductive metaphor to address brain functioning. An improperly functioning Endocrine system and pineal gland are here cited as possible "culprits."