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  Date / Time: 1/21/2009 7:05 AM UTC

  Conv.of Africa 1/21, 09@8AM Professor Jahi Issa interviews Dr.Ahati N.N.Toure
  

  Conv.of Africa 1/21, 09@8AM Professor Jahi Issa interviews Dr.Ahati N.N.Toure

   

  Wednesday January 21, 2009 8AM to 9AM Pacific Time

   Conversations of Africa Segment Announcement

   

  http://www.conversations-of-africa.yomn.net/

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  Hello Brothers and Sisters,

  This week as Barack Obama has his inauguration and moves into the White House,

  Conversations of Africa will welcome Professor Jahi Issa who will interview

   Dr. Ahati N. N. Toure author of newly released book:

  JOHN HENRIK CLARKE AND THE POWER OF AFRICANA HISTORY
  Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereignty

  Please use the link above to listen this dynamic interview about A true authentic African freedom fighter who was born, lived and contributed so much of himself when our people actively battled (as we continue to do today) for some of the freedoms some of us enjoy today! Please tune in for the 45-minute interview and your questions and answers

  Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereignty by Ahati N. Toure"> In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York and as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center. The study explores Clarke’s development and conceptualization of Afrikan World History by examining his intellectual influences and training, his approach to teaching Afrikan World History, his notions regarding Afrikan agency and Afrikan humanity, his explorations of themes of Pan Afrikanism and national sovereignty, his ideas concerning the relevance of Afrikan culture in historical perspective, and his legacy in Afrikan intellectualism and culture, including his contribution to the Afrocentric paradigm that is the core of the discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy. As an academician and intellectual, Clarke emerged as one of the leading theorists of Afrikan liberation and the uses of Afrikan history as a foundation and grounding for liberation. Under Clarke’s formulation liberation was defined not simply as freedom from European domination, but fundamentally as the restoration of Afrikan sovereignty. He explored history’s utility in moving an oppressed and subordinated people from a position of subjugation on multiple levels to full status as a self-sustaining, self-defining, self-directed, free, and independent people on a global stage. Further, the study examines the influence of indigenous Afrikan intellectualism in the United States in Afrikan cultural and intellectual history. Although a leader among European academy-trained Afrikan intellectuals who joined the European academy largely beginning in the 1970s, Clarke’s education and training were the product of a movement for the indigenization of Afrikan academic intellectualism in Harlem of the 1930s that can be traced back to the early nineteenth century. This is the first extensive critical examination of Clarke as an exemplar of indigenous intellectualism in Afrikan culture in the United States. ABOUT THE AUTHOR AHATI N. N. TOURE is Assistant Professor of Africana History and Black Studies at Delaware State University. He earned his Ph.D. in American History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MA in Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of several essays exploring subjects in Africalogy and in Africana History, including “John Henrik Clarke and Issues in Afrikan Historiography: Implications of Pan Afrikan Nationalism in Interpreting the Afrikan Experience in the United States” in Pan African Nationalism in the Americas: The Life and Times of John Henrik Clarke published by Africa World Press. CATEGORY History, Politics/AFRICA & AFRICAN AMERICA

   

  biographical Sketch

   

  Dr. Ahati N. N. Toure is Assistant Professor of Africana History and Black Studies in the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy at Delaware State University.

   

  He is the author of John Henrik Clarke and the Power of Africana History: Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereignty (Africa World Press, 2009).

   

  He has also written several academic essays exploring issues in Africana history and culture. His most recent essays include:

   

  • “Reflections on Omowale Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Afrikan Liberation Struggle and the Political and Psychocultural Critique of Civil Rights” (2008),
  • “Reflections on Paradigms in Power: Imperialism and Americanization as a Modal Relationship Explaining the Treatment of Afrikans in the United States During and After Hurricane Katrina” (2006),
  • “Politico-Cultural Paradigms of Pan Afrikanist Struggle: A Critical Exploration of Issues in Old World and New World Pan Afrikanism in Light of Traditional and Westernized Afrikan Approaches to Identity and Nation-Building” (2005),
  • “John Henrik Clarke and Issues in Afrikan Historiography: Implications of Pan Afrikan Nationalism in Interpreting the Afrikan Experience in the United States” (2005),
  • “‘There Was No Better Place to Go’? Quintard Taylor, Afrikancentricity, and the Historiography of the Afrikan Experience in the American West” (2003), and
  • “Nineteenth Century African Historians in the United States: Explorations of Cultural Location and National Destiny” (2002)

   

  As well, Dr. Toure’s courses include The African American Experience to 1865, The African American Experience from 1865, Introduction to Black Studies, African History to 1884, African History Since 1884, and African Americans from Reconstruction through World War I.

   

  From 2002 to 2007 he was Assistant Director in the African American Studies Program at the University of Houston, where his courses included Introduction to African American Studies, Seminar in African American Studies, Africana Struggle in American Experience, Seminar on the Research and Writings of John Henrik Clarke, Slavery and Race Relations, Africana Thought and Philosophy, and Black Leaders of the 20^th Century.

   

  Originally from the Bronx, New York City, Dr. Toure completed the Ph.D. in American history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an M.A. degree in Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Albany, and a B.A. degree in Public Communications at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.

   

  He is former Deputy Bureau Chief for United Press International (UPI) at the New York State Capitol, where he reported on state political and governmental issues. He was Research Fellow with the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, authoring the public policy report “The Impact of Criminal Justice on New York State’s African and Latino Populations: A Focus on Corrections.” He was also Assistant to the Executive Director for Special Projects at the New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute for Nonviolence.

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  Jahi Issa is an assistant professor of History at DESU. He is the author of The Origin of the Word Amen (www.originofamen.com) and President of Building Libraries for Africa (www.librariesforafrica.com) / (http://www.librariesforafrica.com/).
  
  

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  Next Week Jan.28, 2009 we will host Spoken Word Artists and participants of the Fourth Africa-American Spoken Word Festival Dinner and Relationships Forum scheduled for Saturday -February 7, 2009 from 2 PM to 6 PM in San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church-Second Floor Social Hall located at 1399 McAllister between Steiner and Piece Streets in San Francisco!

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