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@ubuntuawakening akwaaba! 👋🏿 Welcome to Abibitumi! We’d love to get to know you. As a first step, please upload a real profile avatar picture. Also, please select your preferred Abibitumi membership level: https://www.abibitumi.com/product-category/abibitumi-membership/
Then answer these questions – Can you introduce yourself?
How did you find out about Abibitumi?
Where are you from?
What are some of your interests and skills that may be useful to Abibitumi?
Let’s build together!
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Medasi. Ndaa.
My name is Mukondeleli Nnditsheni Maanda Tshiongo Kwinda Mulaudzi wa Govha-Masenga, from South Afrika. I am deeply committed to Afrikan regeneration, sovereignty, and the restoration of our intellectual, cultural, and spiritual traditions. I work professionally as an Instructional & Learning Designer at a South Afrikan university, and I am also building Mulkana Enterprises, a company focused on Linguistics and Afrikan-centred education design.
How I found AbibitumiMy journey toward Abibitumi has been long and intentional. A few years ago, I came across a collaborative YouTube series featuring Obadele Kambon and Chinweizu. That exchange between two Pan-Afrikan giants had a profound impact on me; it sharpened my understanding of sovereignty, culture, and the uncompromising posture required for Afrikan liberation.
Beyond that, my grounding came through studying the history of the Afrikan world — from Marcus Garvey, the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and the epic struggles of the Haitian Revolution, to the Pan-Afrikan conferences in the UK, and the broader liberation struggles of our people globally.
Academically and intellectually, I drew deeply from scholars such as Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Ben-Jochannan, Molefi Kete Asante, Dr. Amos Wilson, Marimba Ani, and many others.
So in many ways, finding Abibitumi — and Dr. Kambon’s work — was not accidental. It was the natural continuation of a long intellectual and spiritual journey toward Afrikan sovereignty and re-membering.
Where I am fromI am from Venda (Tshivenda-speaking) heritage in South Afrika, rooted in the House of Govha-Masenga (also known as Gwamasenga).
Interests & Skills I Bring to the CommunityLinguistics & Language Policy — advancing Afrikan languages, orthographies, and mother-tongue education.
Instructional & Learning Design — curriculum design, scenario-based learning, digital pedagogy, H5P, AI-augmented learning, and Afrikan-centred learning frameworks.
Pan-Afrikan Political Education — geopolitics, media literacy, and historical analysis from an Afrikan worldview.
Community Institution-Building — developing the Pan-Afrikan School of Economics, Technology & Agriculture (PASETA) and other Afrikan-centred learning spaces.
Technology & AI for Afrikan Liberation (notwithstanding the significant weaknesses in Afrikan AI infrastructure and the exposure of our data to foreign systems) — exploring how we can build sovereign digital tools, Afrikan-centred GPTs, and frameworks that return control of knowledge production to Afrikan people.
My intention here is to learn, contribute, collaborate, and build with serious Afrikan minds. I honour the work done in this space and aim to add value wherever my skills are useful to the collective mission.
Let’s build together.
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ABIBITUMI! ABIBIFAHODIE!
Your journey through the dialogue with Elder Chinweizu and me lines up with the stance we uphold at Abibitumi. Your grounding across our Grandcestors and elders — Nana Marcus Garvey; the Haitian Revolution led by Nana Toussaint Louverture and Nana Jean-Jacques Dessalines; the Civil Rights era with Baba El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) and Okunini Martin Luther King Jr. — and your study of Okunini Cheikh Anta Diop, Okunini John Henrik Clarke, Okunini Yosef ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben), Okunini Molefi Kete Asante, Okunini Amos Wilson, Okuninibaa Marimba Ani, and others — that’s the lineage we build from.
Your current focus areas are exactly what moves our people forward now:
Linguistics & Language Policy for orthographies and mother-tongue education.
Instructional & Learning Design — scenario-based learning, digital pedagogy, H5P, and AI-augmented methods within Afrikan-centred frameworks.
Pan-Afrikan Political Education — geopolitics and media literacy from an Afrikan worldview.
Community Institution-Building — including your work toward Afrikan-centred learning spaces.
Technology & AI for Abibifahodie — Afrikan-centred GPTs and digital tools that return control of knowledge production to Afrikan people.
On a personal note, I used to watch Venda bare-knuckle boxing (Musangwe) Ndaa.
Let’s build with precision and measurable wins.
ABIBITUMI! ABIBIFAHODIE!
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@obadelekambon thank you for the warm welcome my Elder, I truly feel aligned to be in this space. I work at UKZN in KwaZulu, and will actually be doing MA research next year looking at how infusing indigenous principles within Teaching and Learning makes sense for the Afrikan student.
I reckon (reflecting on my own journey) it’s hard to learn anything about the natural world and human society when you have not ontologically located yourself within the cosmos. For me, my Ancestors made it clear that nothing will make sense until I acknowledge them and their greatness. And sure enough, once I did, I gained such clarity even in terms of my scholarship. The Elders now continue to energize me as I energize them.
On the Musangwe 😂 Ndaa! Yeah, the “sport” is not necessarily ancient, but it does come from within our cultural matrix. Sparring among men in a controlled environment is encouraged to strengthen the defences of the community. Unfortunately, I am one of those who were culturally dislocated because of foreign religions, so I had to do some hard labour to dig up the story of my people and understand them/ myself better.
Since I started following your work, it has been my dream to exploit this university system 😂 to visit you at University of Ghana via exchange programmes and so on. I think like-minded Afrikans should connect and do the work, especially at this time of such high geopolitical tension. I have also been following the great work you are doing in Burkina Faso.
Salute! You’re a real one, my Elder! ✊🏾
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Akwaaba!
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@Mukondeleli Akwaaba, we are elated to have you in our midst. I resonate with all the skills you’ve outlined and am actively honing them to so I can pivot and contribute entirely and meaningfully to the growth and success of this platform. I look forward to connecting with you.
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