A thread on the social ritual and verbal art of ancestor veneration from Ayi Kwei Armah:

"Practically all the invocations,utterances, addresses, and remembrances that we can group together under the rubric of African verbal art are part of a social ritual designed to keep





members of the remembered community connected, even though they may be separated by great distances and centuries of time.

The obsessive patterns of these acts of communication constitute, I think, a recognition of the fact that memory, enduring memory, is a social acquisition,

A thread on Mansa Musa and the African aristocrat class from Ayi Kwei Armah:

"Admittedly, European explorers looking for African resources to exploit did not have to create an African steward elite from scratch. The aristocrat as free rider already existed in African society.





The rule of kings and queens in Africa is as old, at least, as the dynastic age in the Nile Valley.

Dynastic rule meant the takeover of community resources and assets by a small group. The takeover was normally accomplished through a combination of force and guile—physical and

A thread on Race in Brazil from Dr. Abdias Do Nascimento:

"Until very recently, the norm was to nullify Black identity by placing Afro-Brazilians indiscriminately in the category of "Brazilian people" or "the working class," in order to avoid Black people's specific problems emerging as a serious social question.

The attempt was to silence millions of Brazilians of African origin with the illusion that, by solving the dichotomy between rich and poor or between worker and employer, all racial problems would be automatically resolved.

A thread on the Ancient Egyptian population from Cheikh Anta Diop:

"Falkenburger reopened the anthropological study of the Egyptian population in a recent work in which he discusses 1,787 male skulls varying in date from the old Pre-Dynastic to our own day. He distinguishes four main groups' (p.421). The sorting of the predynastic skulls into these four groups gives the following results for the whole predynastic period: '36% negroid, 33% Mediterranean, approximating either to the Cro-Magnoid or to the negroid'.

A thread on African integrationists, liberals, ADOS, FBA, condo kneegrows from Dr. Kobi Kambon:

"The integrationists Africans will invariably rise up against this notion and any Africentric paradigm when it signals any signs of gaining a foothold of popular acceptance among the masses of Africans in America.This psychological posture also explains their great difficulty in drawing the logical connection between the labels of Black and African in reference to our people.

A thread on the etymology orì and òrìṣà from Modupe Oduyoye:

"A Yorùbá man worships his òrìṣà is cognate with Semitic words meaning "head"; the Yorùbá worship their head.

Sounds like mere syllogism, but the reasoning actually happened. Each of the statements is true. But how "true" is the last statement? Do the Yorùbá worship their head?

Much theology has been deduced from the use of the word orí "head" in Yorùbá religious discourse. For "Oh me!" a Yorùbá man says orì mì ò! "Oh my head!"

A thread on Archie Mafeje critiquing Marx, Historical and Dialectical Materialism:

"It was Marx who dispensed with the separation between economics and history by introducing dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Epistemologically, dialectical materialism did not recognize the division of knowledge but also the view that all scientific knowledge was reducible to finite nomothetic propositions or universal laws.

Kwame Nkrumah thought he could have a military that was trained by the British and African masses who are brainwashed by Christianity, who would side with him over the United States and the British. How can you achieve Pan-Africanism and your political leaders are led by the irrationality of Christian dogma? How can you believe you can get aid from the chief colonizer and expect them to assist you in their overthrow?

Sekou Toure proved to me you can't have a cultural revolution under Islam and not end up becoming a neocolonialist like he did. Yes, the CIA and the French undermined his government. But this idea you can change the economic system and leave the culture, religion, and oppressive values in place, and have revolution is a fantasy.

A thread on Abolish Black men and Black Male Studies:

I saw the abolish Black men on Twitter from Afropessimist and Black feminists, and the back and forth with Black Male Studies scholars.
Since the Man-Not has come out I've seen alot of the arguments between Black Male Studies scholars and Black feminists on social media. Initially I understood the arguments of Black Male Studies scholars and their gripe with Black feminists and more recently Afropessimists.
But as I delve deeper in the Man-Not and begin to peel back the layers,

A thread from Jacob Carruthers on "The Failure of the Negro Intellectual:

"Let us first consider E.Franklin Frazier's critique of African American scholars. Frazier was himself believed by some to be foremost African American sociologist if not the foremost scholar. His most popular work, Black Bourgeoisie, was a brilliant critique of the African American middle class of the 20th century, which asserted that "Negroes" were exaggerated Americans "who were largely anti-intellectual."

A thread on the overemphasis on the problem orientation and how it dehumanizes Black men:

"An example of problem orientation is the stereotyping of Black males as hypersexual. Thus, a great deal of recent scholarship on Black male sexuality (Dancy, 2012) has been focused on hypersexuality, which reduces the broader topic of sexuality to conversations about sexual deviance.

The supposed legitimacy of this sort of research, just like in stereotypes, is that it draws on something real----but it also greatly exaggerates reality

A thread on "The Failure of The Negro Intellectual" From Dr. Tommy J. Curry:

"The sensibilities of the Black American intellectual concerning race have historically been cemented to their ascendancy within empire. How one writes about race, offering hope for change in opposition to the totality of racism, and communicates an aspiration for the possibilities made available by American ideals such as freedom, justice and equality has been the demarcation between what is called radical and

A thread on the Human Other:

"Whether that of the "fallen" lay humanists of medieval Europe, who were negatively represented as being "enslaved to Original Sin" unlike the celibate Clergy who were as such, the guardians of the mainstream system of Scholastic knowledge, or, in the case of the peoples of African and Afro-mixed descent as the category of the Human Other, represented as enslaved to its dysselected evolutionary origins and whose physiognomic distance from "normal" being provides the genetic principle of difference and similarity which

A thread on Advanced Indigenous African Education:

"It was the companionship of astronomers trained at these ancient African schools that developed concepts for the measurement of time based on observations of regularities and variations in the daily appearance and setting of the sun, the monthly appearance and disappearance of the moon, and the repeated alternation of seasons, using such instruments as water clocks and nilometers.

The more we stigmatize drug use, the more people die from overdoses. I know most people think shame and humiliation creates discipline, but it doesn't. It alienates people and causes them to hide a part of themselves, that could potentially result in their death. For example, in many cases people overdose alone because of the stigma of using drugs that carry a certain stigma that dehumanizes them. This makes their drug use dangerous because if anything goes wrong, they can't get the help they need.

A thread on Hippocrates:

"Only a fraction of the large Hippocratic written corpus can be directly attributed to him and he cannot even claim authorship of the fabled Hippocratic Oath. In all fairness to him, however, he never gave himself the title "Father of Medicine" nor is there any reason to doubt that he was a physician of unusual gifts .