The Afrakaltural Symposium
Defining the Tools
The culture conscious lifestyle is challenging and demanding for both individuals and organizations attempting to engage in its practice.
Many well-intentioned individuals stumble across confusing ideological dictums that lead to frustration and abandonment. The guidelines for racial interactions, religious practices, family gatherings, earning a living and community development are often conflicting and untenable. When faced with these and other difficulties many individuals find themselves overwhelmed by the challenge of how to be of service to the Afrakan community.
Immature leadership devoid of initiative and imagination yields demagogues who seek worship, praise and sexual exploitation. Groups under such leadership find themselves incapable of functioning as a team due to a lack discipline.
This holds true for quite a few organizations. Their structure is often based on premature directives and reactionary policies. The organization fails to develop appropriate curriculum and does not properly train its staff. Their members are often naïve and vulnerable. The team work needed for group cohesion is absent or inconsistent. The organization breeds deconstructive socialization practices that proliferate cultural misconceptions between continental and diaspoac Afrakans. The organization lacks the comprehensive methodologies needed to achieve realistic objectives and to galvanize its members.
So what are these individuals and organizations to do?
The Afrakaltural Symposium is a distinctive training experience which provides developmental guidance and operationally defined mandates for culture consciousness. Our aggressive assault on Anti-Afrakanism helps to reduce confusion. Terminology is clearly defined, ideology is conceptually explored and application of both is tested in real life situations. This more refined Afrakan-centered frame of reference provides sound life-management strategies and skills. It’s specialty lies in the design and application of a curriculum which emphasizes team-building and leadership development utilizing Afrakaltural behavioral techniques. These can be specificly contoured to fit individual or group needs.
Afrakan Centered:
Conceptualizing reality and its vicissitudes in reference to the history and culture of Afrakans, devoid of the influences of non-natal cultures.
Afrakalogy:
The scientific study of the modalities of ancient and contemporary social structures of Afrakan people. It defines the influence, or lack thereof, of social institutions and personal factors on identity.
Anti-Afrakanism:
Any belief, action or system which denigrates the Afrakan psyche, aesthetic, being or culture.
Afrakanization:
Posits construction and habilitation of the contemporary Afrakan self within the framework of collective identity utilizing traditional principles which are integrated with contemporary needs for perpetual development.
Afrakanscious:
A term for contemporary culture, style and trends that reflect individual or group awareness of the continuance and influence of Afraka.
Pan Afrakanism:
Ideology that expounds a composite Afrakan identity, regardless of geographic location, based on a unifying Afrakan-centered paradigm and agenda.
This is the art and science of nurturing Afrakan people and these demands are intractable. Prepare yourself.