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WHAT DOES THE WORD MEAN? WHAT IS ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO THOSE WHO PRIZE CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILISATIONS? HOW HAVE TWO FORCES COLLIDED TO DEGRADE THE WORD, AND WHOSE INTERESTS DOES THAT DEGRADATION SERVE? LISTEN/DOWNLOAD     During the last few years, the catalogue of online slurs has grown considerably, but none has been as disturbing to me as the rise of the word “hotep.” What does the word mean? What is its significance to those who prize classical African civilisations? How have two forces collided to degrade the word, and whose interests does that degradation serve? Joining me to discuss the issue is C.R. Sparrow . She’s a writer and assistant editor at Black Girl Nerds.com, an Africentric website, podcast, and video series addressing pop culture, politics, feminism, and technology. Sparrow describes herself as “an avid fan of science fiction, fantasy, and afrofuturism… an alumnus of Temple University's School of Media and Communication [and a] Black Que...

AUTHOR OF AFROCENTRICITY ON HOW KNOWLEDGE OF SELF IS LIBERATORY, HOW AFROCENTRICITY IS NOT THE ANALOGUE TO EUROCENTRICITY, AND THE MASSIVE DIVERSITY OF THE CONTINENT LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Few people have done as much to promote the Africentric perspective as Molefi Kete Asante, the scholar, editor, and activist who wrote the seminal work Afrocentricity and furthered the intellectual movement for an African-centered scholarship and world-view that employs research for political liberation through the academic resuscitation of smothered history. Asante has published over 400 articles, and has authored more than seventy books, among them Afrocentricity, African Pyramids of Knowledge, Ancient Egyptian Philosophers , and the memoir As I Run Toward Africa . The Utne Reader called him one of the “100 Leading Thinkers” in the United States, and he has appeared on Nightline, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, The Today Show, The Tony Brown Show, and 60 Minutes . The African Union cited him as one ...

White conservative author Richard Poe explores the racially African reality of Ancient Egypt and the reasons the academic and publishing world want people like him to shut up   The next time you feel like starting a blood feud, go to a Classics lecture on any American campus or to any American publishing house and say the following: “Egypt was a racially African civilisation. And it conquered and civilised Greece.” As amply demonstrated by the growth industry in anti-Afrocentric publishing, North America’s racially-poisoned debates about nearly everything have made the discussion of the racial identity of a people from six thousand years ago almost as vicious as the fight in Syria right now. Why the controversy? Because of what Martin Bernal , author of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation , described as the contest between the Ancient Model and the Aryan model of ancient Greece and Egypt. The ancient Greeks made it clear that Egypt was...

6 pm Mountain Time FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide Download or stream Few American scholars achieved the depth and breadth of accomplishment of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. Born in 1868, three years after the en d of the American civil war, Du Bois was the first African to receive a PhD from Harvard University. Du Bois also studied at the University of Berlin, becoming a professor of History and Economics, and wrote 36 books and more than 4000 articles and essays. For a time he headed the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and was founding editor of its newspaper The Crisis . After the US government refused to renew his passport, Du Bois moved in 1963 to Ghana at the invitation of President Kwame Nkrumah, where he directed work on the Encyclopedia Africana . Du Bois died on August 27, 1963, having made a profound impact on African intellectualism globally, especially through his 1903 essay “ The Talented Tenth ” about the necessity of a vanguard of educated Afric...