Saturday, September 21, 2013

African Women in S.T.E.M.: Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller

Source: http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/black-women-techies
Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller

Computer scientists, Spelman College

The next generation is ready to soar. In 2010, Keels and Miller beat Harvard and Stanford to win the AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge. Keels -- in Spelman's Dual Degree Engineering program -- and Miller, a computer science major, also co-captained the college robotics team, which tied for first place in the RoboCup Japan Open 2009 tournament.


Friday, September 20, 2013

Tchokwe Cosmology and the Lusona Cosmogram


Tchokwe Story of the Beginning of the World

The figure at the top is God, at the left is the Sun, at the right is the Moon and at the bottom is a human. The Lusona represents the path to God.

One day the Sun went to visit God. God gave the Sun a chicken and said, "Return in the morning before you leave." In the morning the chicken crowed and woke the Sun. When the Sun went to God, God said, "You did not eat the chicken I gave you for supper. You may keep the chicken but return here every day." That is why the Sun circles the earth and rises every morning.

The Moon also went to visit God and was given a chicken. In the morning the chicken crowed and woke the Moon. Again God said, "You did not eat the chicken I gave you for supper. You may keep the chicken but return here every twenty-eight day." That is why the Moon cycle is twenty-eight days long.

The human also went to visit God and was given a chicken. But the human was hungry after such a long journey and ate part of the chicken for supper. The next morning the Sun was already high in the sky when the human awoke, ate the rest of the chicken, and hurried to see God. God said, "I did not hear the chicken crow this morning." The human replied fearfully, "I was very hungry and ate it." "That is all right," said God, "but listen: you know that the Sun and Moon have been here, but neither of them killed the chicken I gave them. That is why they themselves will never die. But you killed yours, and so you must die as it did. But at your death you must return here."

And so it is.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

George G.M. James and Stolen Legacy

Dr. George G.M. James, author of “Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy”

Doctor George Granville Monah James was an African Guyanese scholar who held degrees and teaching certificates in theology, logic, Latin, Greek, philosophy, mathematics and history. A professor at Arkansas A & M and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, he studied the works of eminent Western scholars such as C.H. Vail, E.A. Wallis Budge, Swineburne Clymer and Godfrey Higgins. James in his seminal work Stolen Legacy, when published in 1954 concluded that the Greeks were not the originators of Greek philosophy. His was the first book to argue that the Greeks stole their philosophy from the people of North Africa commonly called the Egyptians.

James presents seven primary arguments: (1) Greek philosophy was stolen Egyptian philosophy, (2) Greek philosophy was alien to the Greeks, (3) Greek philosophy was the off-spring of the Egyptian Mystery System, (4) the Egyptians educated the Greeks, (5) the doctrines of Greek philosophers are the doctrines of the Egyptian Mystery System, (6) the education of the Egyptian Priests and the Curriculum of the Mystery System, show Egypt was the source of Higher Education in the ancient world, not Greece; and (7) the Memphite Theology contains the theology, philosophy, and cosmology of the Egyptians and is therefore an authoritative source of doctrinal origin.

The release of Doctor James’ long-awaited book stirred tremendous controversy in 1954 in apartheid America. His very attack on the Greco-Roman, Judaeo-Christian foundation of Western civilization upset western academia and still does today. His unveiling that Aristotle stole and plagiarized materials from the royal libraries and temples throughout Egypt offended those whose intent it was to keep Africans in subordinated places, away from power, and held captive by a history that starts in slavery thus having no impact on world high-culture except as hewers of wood and drawers of water. Dr James’ life ended in 1954 under suspicious circumstances, many alleging that he was murdered for revealing too much and thus daring to challenge the established racist European American power structure that vampiristically lives off black oppression. James’ work was seen as a shot across the bow of white supremacy, one whose echo reverberates throughout the African world. James had attained the nous. His Stolen Legacy is a must-read.

Often-times called "the umbrella man," because he was seldom seen without one in his hand, come rain or shine; "poppycock," because it was a common word he sometimes used when disturbed by others mediocrity; still there should not have been a solitary one of us African, African American and African Caribbean academicians who did not know of the late philosopher, theologian, mathematician, scientist, and professor George G. M. James and his works. It is as criminal as not having heard or known of the person and works of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and so many other African historical giants of our heritage which we should have enshrined during the Black Cultural Revolution of the era some still call The Glorious 1960's.

George G.M. James was born in the British Crown Colony of GUIANA, South America [presently the "Republic of Guyana"] to the Reverend Linch B. and Margaret E. James sometime in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He was nurtured into full boyhood, and completed his normal/elementary and advanced/high school education in his native homeland. Following this beginning he journeyed to England where he earned the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Durham University. At London University he continued his studies in the area of research, having many projects to his credit, including work towards the Doctor of Letters degree. He left and entered the United States of America where he worked on his PhD degree. Added to all of this were: a Teacher's Certificate to teach Greek, Latin, and Mathematics in the State of New York school system, the same being equally true for North Carolina and Florida; at the latter also as an Administrator. His college career included two years as Professor of Logic and Greek at Livingston College, Salisbury, North Carolina; ten years as Professor of Languages and Philosophy at Johnson C. Smith, Charlotte, North Carolina; two years as Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Men at Georgia State College, Industrial College, Georgia; one year as Professor of Social Science at Alabama A. & M. College, Normal, Alabama; and five years as Professor of Social Sciences Arkansas State College, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

In 1954 he published the long-awaited challenge to the Greeks having fathered "GREEK PHILOSOPHY"; thus his book Stolen Legacy. This was, unfortunately, the same year he mysteriously died after having left his job and friends at Pine Bluff, Arkansas for Nashville, Tennessee. This type of erratic behavior was never typical of the highly disciplined George G.M. James.

Professor James belonged to numerous organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of University Professors, the American Teachers Association, and the National Education Association.  The most important of the organizations he worked towards projecting for African people was the only one for which he made his deepest obligation; thus: Order of [the Egyptian, or Nile Valley indigenous people] Mysteries System, [O.M.S.], as High-Priest: Plumbed-Level-Square 360° .
Professor James had numerous publications, articles, and pamphlets. This is but a very short introduction to the "academic genius" who dared to challenge European, British, and European-American scholarship in the 1930's to 1950's, when most of his fellow African, African American, and African Caribbean educators were trying to secure their European American counterparts approval and endorsement as scholars.   George G.M. James equally challenged the very foundation of Judaism, Judaeo-Christianity, and Western Civilization as being original and/or void of their African Beginnings.  In so doing, he had revealed too much of the secrets of even friends, particularly in terms of their secret society’s teachings they, i.e. Europeans, stole and plagiarized from the teachings of the African Egyptian Mystery System which was housed in the Grand Lodge of Luxor in ancient times, and among very few today who still continue the objectives of first Grand Master Amen-Ra.  Man, African, Know Yourself, were the passwords of James' life.  And unfortunately, his light was snuffed out by those who want to maintain their control over the African people who George G.M. James wanted to be mentally free.

Doctor George G.M. James has been supported and promoted by many preeminent African scholars over the years including the likes of Doctor Asa Hilliard, Doctor John Henrik Clarke, Doctor Ivan Van Sertima, Doctor Chancellor Williams, and Doctor Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan.  Doctor George G.M. James’ work has come under attack due to some small errors based on the Medu Neter translations he had to rely on during his time. However, although Doctor Cheikh Anta Diop’s focus is Africa and Not Greece, Diop holds that Greeks learned from a superior Egyptian civilization, but Diop does not argue that Greek culture was simply a derivative of Egypt, but rather Greek culture was part of a northern cradle which distinctively grew out of cultural conditions influenced by Egypt.  In his book Civilization or Barbarism, Diop revisited the idea of the stolen legacy presented by George G.M. James, and by using his own translations of the Kemetic Medu Neter language, and Diop was able to confirm much of James’ work.

The loss of Professor George G.M. James to the African Communities everywhere can never be equaled; yet countless Africans will take heed of his clarion call in terms of their enlightenment with respect to their African Heritage he so devotedly brought to light.  If you ever dare to read the works of George G.M. James, you will never again be the same as you were before.


Sources:
“In Pursuit of George G.M. James” by Dr. Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannnan
http://www.slideshare.net/rbgstreetscholar1/in-pursuit-of-george-g-m-james-study-of-african-origins-in-western-civilization-by-yosef-a-a-benjochannan

http://www.nbufront.org/MastersMuseums/DocBen/GGJames/OnGGJamesPrelude.html

http://www.sebadamani.com/2/post/2013/05/stolen-legacy.html

Stolen Legacy
http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20Stolen%20Legacy.pdf

Monday, September 9, 2013

S.T.E.M. and Roots – A lecture and demonstration of African Science, Math, and Technology

S.T.E.M. and Roots – A lecture and demonstration of African Science, Math, and Technology

S.T.E.M. is an acronym for the fields of study in the categories of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Many scholars have presented information showing that Africa is the Root origin of the S.T.E.M. fields. The application of the S.T.E.M. fields determines the Economic development, self-determination, survival, and well-being of a people. As the Root of S.T.E.M., it is important for Africans, and people of African descent, to be Creators and Producers Par Excellence in the S.T.E.M. fields. “African Creation Energy” has authored a series of books designed to motivate and inspire Africans, and people of African descent, in the S.T.E.M. fields, and will be doing a lecture and demonstration on African Science, Math, and Technology at Medu Bookstore on Thursday, October 24, 2013 6pm-8pm EST.

Friday, September 6, 2013

African Binary Math Class Syllabus



AFRICAN BINARY MATHEMATICS COURSE SYLLABUS

Location:    Online at http://akokonanhomeschool.ning.com

Materials:
  • A working computer with internet connection
  • African Binary Mathematics Workbook (comes with class)
  • Pencil and Paper
Class website:
Mwalimu:   
   Prophessor A.C.E. (African Creation Energy) “Osiadan Khnum Ptah”
   Phone:    678-235-8148
   Email:    africancreationenergy@gmail.com
           
Description:   
The “African Binary Mathematics” course will guide students through re-learning, remembering, and applying the way we Africans traditionally did Mathematics using systems similar to Binary code.  Topics covered will include the relationship between African Binary Mathematics to the study of Nature, Converting from Decimal Numbers to Binary numbers, converting from Binary Numbers to Decimal Numbers, Ancient Egyptian Binary Mathematics, Ethiopian Binary Mathematics, Binary Math and Eye of Horus fractions, Yoruba Odus of Ifa Binary Mathematics, Binary Arithmetic, and Binary Algebra.  Akoko nan is the perfect place to reconnect to our ancient works and solve the problems of our community through education.  Join us as we solve the following problem, “How Did Africans Traditionally Do Mathematics”. This class is designed for the entire home schooling family.

Cost:         $10 for 5 week session

Schedule Dates/Time:

SESSION 1: Sunday, Nov. 03, 2013
Title:         Introduction - Binary Math and the African Study of Nature
Objective:    
   The student will be able to:
   • Know the definition of Binary
   • Know the Advantages and Applications of Binary
   • Identify Binary Dualities in Nature
   • Use Binary Symbols to Represent Dualities in Nature
   • Know the Importance Africans traditionally placed on Mathematics
   • Identify Examples of Binary in African Culture
Assignment:
   • Homework Assignment: list 4 examples of Binary Dualities in Nature, create your own symbols for each
   • Watch The African Origin of Mathematics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYny1iQ_1r8
   • Watch Introduction to Mathology Mythematics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPAqSMVnEE

SESSION 2:
  Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013
Title:         Binary Numbers
Objective:    
   The student will be able to:
   • Convert between Decimal and Binary Number systems
   • Use Finger binary to convert between decimal and Binary Number systems
   • Use Finger binary to display values up to 31
   • Learn African names and symbols for Binary values
Assignment:
   • Binary Finger Quiz
   • Home Assignment: converting decimal to binary and binary to decimal
   • Watch Finger Binary for African Binary Math Class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mxn2Ckuc0w

SESSION 3:  Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013
Title:         Binary Math in African Culture
Objective:    
   The student will be able to:
   • Identify primary evidence of Binary Math in various traditional African cultures
   • Understand the relationship between Geomancy and the Yoruba Odu of Ifa to Binary Math
   • Use Binary Math to perform Ancient Egyptian Multiplication
   • Understand the relationship between Ancient Egyptian Eye of Horus Fractions to Binary Math
   • Use Binary Math to perform Ancient Ethiopian Multiplication
   • Understand how the Ishango Bone relates to Ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian Math, and Binary Math
Assignment:
   • Home Assignment: Ancient Egyptian Binary Multiplication, Division, Eye of Horus Fractions, Ethiopian Binary Multiplication, and Yoruba Binary Odus of Ifa
   • Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1ZWE3pe9o
   • Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOTKidm7A0

SESSION 4:   Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013
Title:         Binary Arithmetic
Objective:    
   The student will be able to:
   • Add Binary Numbers
   • Subtract Binary Numbers
   • Multiply Binary Numbers
   • Divide Binary Numbers
   • Understand How Binary Arithmetic is Used in Computers
Assignment:
   • Home Assignment: Binary Arithmetic Homework Sheet
   • Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFd5bnDdB3Q
   • Ontology Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5t98V6VP4
   • Technophobia and Breaking the Spell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUMpQJ2bho

SESSION 5:  Sunday, Dec. 01, 2013
Title:         Binary Algebra
Objective:    
   The student will be able to:
   • Understand how African Nsibidi symbols relate to Binary Algebra Operators
   • Understand how Binary Algebra is used in Computers
   • Apply the Commutative laws of Binary Addition and Binary Multiplication
   • Apply the Associative laws of Binary Addition and Binary Multiplication
   • Apply the Distributive Law of Binary Algebra
   • Apply the rules and laws of Binary Algebra
Assignment:
   • Home Assignment: Binary Algebra Homework Sheet
   • The African Origin of Robotics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM5tVNG2uds
   • AfroBot - African Robotics and Computer Science - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hij2fgFU0xg

Supplementary Reading:
•    “Supreme Mathematic African Ma’at Magic” (ISBN 9780557592142) by African Creation Energy  Cost $15
http://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Mathematic-African-MaAt-Magic/dp/0557592143

http://www.lulu.com/shop/african-creation-energy/supreme-mathematic-african-maat-magic/paperback/product-15818504.html

•    “Khnum-Ptah to Computer: The African Initialization of Computer Science” by African Creation Energy (ISBN 9781300498919)  Cost $20
http://www.amazon.com/Khnum-Ptah-Computer-African-Initialization-Science/dp/1300498919

http://www.lulu.com/shop/african-creation-energy/khnum-ptah-to-computer-the-african-initialization-of-computer-science/paperback/product-20565683.html