“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