Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭 2024
RE-EDUCATING KALEB
As a student, it was consistently reinforced that Africa & African people had no history worth studying, acknowledging, or knowing. Today, on the original lands of my ancestors, I (a descendant of Nigerians, Congolese, and Malians) seek to re-member who my people were before the American experiment, what has been lost to me, and how to re-member it.
Some initial questions include:
Who were we to each other, and why? What was our relationship to place? What did we build, make, and create, and why?
Some Other Questions:
How has my American social conditioning shaped my current sense of identity and belonging? And what may need to be reconciled?
What values have I inherited from my current context and how has it influenced my decision making and life choices, to date? And, what indigenous principles may I need to re-inhabit?
In what ways have my educational experiences (k-12, higher ed., graduate school, etc.) reflected the deepest truths and knowledge about my people? And, what might I need to re-member?
What were the spiritual traditions of my people prior to Christianity? And, what might I need to re-ignite?
Touched down at 14:40, local time. Seven days. Let’s see what I can pick up.
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