12,480 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

I like the matters raised around Afrikans in the STEAM fields. While we have more physical representation, where is the Afrikan power ideological afrientation? Afrikans are acquiescing to the current power structure and to those who hold the “authority”. Taking black Science for the purpose of regaining Afrikan power reminded me of a class my son is currently taking and has taken. AYA Educational Institute has Science courses where the focus is Afrikan, to address matters like this, and to drill in on issues that affect our people (e.g., one course is Black Health, Research and Action). They are having Afrikan youth see themselves as Scientists based off knowing Ourstory; this alleviates the issue that Western Science propagates of having Afrikan people alienated from STEAM because they only depict non-Afrikan scientists (i.e., “I can’t do Science/be a Scientist cause that’s for white people”). I believe exposing Afrikan youth and adults to Afrikan-centered STEAM is essential to have us psychologically re-gain our power so we have the firm belief we can do this again as it was done by our ancestors before. This is the class synopsis and you’ll see it places us at a pinnacle of ourstorical greatness for an Afrikan future: “You are the Timbuktu Scientist. Your scholarship and expertise have come down through the ages of who you are and are attested to by the Timbuktu manuscripts and the knowledge of our ancestors before Timbuktu. You have received an urgent message through an unlikely portal – a time portal. The distress signal is from a dwindling group of Afrikans from 2523. Others have been decimated by diseases targeted at them. Because they had been educated and socialized in a death-care system, their responses were puny at best. Most times it exacerbated the disease which they unwittingly passed on to their offspring. Each generation getting weaker and weaker, smaller and smaller. We – those who are proud of our Afrikanness- are on the brink of extinction. You and your fellow Timbuktu Scientists are their only hope. Your mission – should you decide to accept it – will be to create a new timeline., a new future for our people. The one that has led to the 2523 of the message-senders”.