AFRIKAN
CENTERED
EDUCATION




The Council of Independent Black Institutions (CIBI) defines
Afrikan-Centered Education as:


The means by which Afrikan culture — including the knowledge, attitudes,
values and skills needed to maintain and perpetuate it throughout the
nation building process — is developed and advanced through practice.
Its aim, therefore, is to build commitment and competency within present
and future generations to support the struggle for liberation and
nationhood. We define nation building as the conscious and focused
application of our people’s collective resources, energies, and knowledge
to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space
that we identify as ours. Nation building encompasses both the
reconstruction of Afrikan culture and the development of a progressive and
sovereign state structure consistent with that culture.

We, in CIBI, further believe, that in practice, Afrikan-centered education:

1) acknowledges Afrikan spirituality as an essential aspect of our uniqueness
as a people and makes it an instrument of our liberation;

2) facilitates participation in the affairs of nations and defining (or redefining)
reality on our own terms, in our own time and in our own interests;

3) prepares Afrikans “for self-reliance, nation maintenance, and nation management
in every regard”;

4) emphasizes the fundamental relationship between the strength of our families and
the strength of our nation;

5) ensures that the historic role and function of the customs, traditions, rituals
and ceremonies — that have protected and preserved our culture; facilitated our
spiritual expression; ensured harmony in our social relations; prepared our people
to meet their responsibilities as adult members of our culture; and sustained the
continuity of Afrikan life over successive generations — are understood and made
relevant to the challenges that confront us in our time;

6) emphasizes that Afrikan identity is embedded in the continuity of Afrikan cultural
history and that Afrikan cultural history represents a distinct reality continually
evolving from the experiences of all Afrikan people wherever they are and have been
on the planet across time and generations;

7) focuses on the “knowledge and discovery of historical truths; through comparison;
hypothesizing and testing through debate, trial, and application; through analysis
and synthesis; through creative and critical thinking; through problem resolution
processes; and through final evaluation and decision making”;

8 ) can only be systematically facilitated by people who themselves are consciously
engaged in the process of Afrikan-centered personal transformation;

9) is a process dependent upon human perception and interpretation [Thus, it follows
that a curriculum cannot be Afrikan-centered independent of our capacity to perceive
and interpret it in an Afrikan-centered manner;

10) embraces the traditional wisdom that “children are the reward of life” and it is,
therefore, an expression of our unconditional love for them. In order to best serve
Afrikan children our methods must reflect the best understandings that we have of how
they develop and learn biologically, spiritually and culturally.



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