Celebration of Black Mother and Challenges of Black Child Socialisation By Mocholoko Dr. Zulumathabo Zulu
Celebrating African Mothers! Picture Credit: Z Zulu
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In the month of Mother’s Day, we pay tribute to the Black mother and dedicate this lecture to the Matriarch of the House. Socialisation of a Black child is hard in a society that is dominated by the ECC (Euro-Christian Colonial) systems that foreground, on the one hand, the beauty; morality and success of Whiteness and, on the other hand, foreground the dangers; deprivation and failures of Blackness. Moreover, the father absence is a perpetual wound that is embedded in the mind of a Black child. What are the challenges of socialisation under these prohibitive conditions? What are the breakthroughs nonetheless? What are the lessons learned? What is the way forward for the Black child? Enter a Zoom lecture inspired Madisebo University longitudinal research The Things That Impede The Rise of Thari on the challenges that Thari (Imbeleko/Melanin) must overcome to beautify the future for the next generations!
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When: Sunday May 16, 2021 11:00 AM Johannesburg
Topic: Celebration of Black Mother and Challenges in Black Child Socialisation
There are metaphysical cases of risk faced by Thari (Imbeleko/Melanin) on a scale of low to high. Picture Credit: Association of Psychological Science.
The inability to gather semantic information of risk poses an impressive threat to the survival experience of Thari for the future generations. What are the risks of external dependency? What are the risks of disunity? What are the risks of Covid? What are the risks of nanotechnology? What are the risks of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Enter a Zoom lecture on the dangerous risks that face Thari (Imbeleko/Melanin) in the not too distant future!
the coast was cogent from the tree, attention to detail, like Cree! He descended to hunt for prey Hidden danger like a snake in the grass The grassland like bittersweet To cross paths with mighty lions To make him pay for transgressions
to kowtow was instinctive, to disguise like submissive. Kowtows defensively tooled To plead no contest like schooled Hitherto, confused cerebra Hereafter, pounced like coiled cobra To correct the unjust charge sheet
Contextual Commentary
The uncharted terrain of a lone hunter, the great protagonist Nkwe (African leopard), was plotting well like on a flawless graph paper until the graphical sequence was befallen by a snag of discontinuity when he was intercepted by the abrupt appearance of the killing machines of the mighty lions in the Savannah of Mother Afrika. This Nkwe story is characterised herein by a triad of (1) the dangerous intercept; (2) the harsh ground and (3) the fluid dynamics of extreme resilience.
The mighty lion King got what he more than bargained for when he intercepted the great protagonist of survivability Nkwe (African leopard) forcing the mighty lion King to think a thousand times before making the next move. Instead of his usual aggressive moves, the lion King makes evasive moves to avoid injury. Picture Credit: Power Animals, Youtube.
The Dangerous Intercept
The graph segment of your mathematics book talks about the intersect of lines. This is a case of two linear equations wherein you have to determine if they share a common point. A common point between simultaneous equations is known as an intersect. The intersect is also known as an intercept if it crosses the axis line. If the intersect does not exist with respect to the equations or axis line then it means the lines of the simultaneous equations do not cross.
If you are in the jungle and the intersect between you and the nemesis is zero, it is a good thing because it means your paths do not cross. You do not want to cross paths with the predators of the jungle. In the African jungle the intersect is synonymous with being intercepted by danger.
The great Nkwe was not so lucky. His trajectory and that of the lions shared an intersect and that placed him on a collision course with his nemesis. It was not the plan of Nkwe to share a common point with the lions but this is something Nkwe had no control over. It is for this reason that The Prayer of The Intercept in the jungle is most pertinent as shown below:
The Prayer of the Intercept
“Like a bird with broken wings I pray for the cosmic rings To thwart the intercept That resulted in broken wings To heal my broken wings To strengthen my wings To sharpen my beak That I may rise with vertical lift like the effortless Seagull that rises unimpeded by the terrestrial intercept”
The Harsh Ground
Like a rapid sequence of a lightning flash and the subsequent deafening of the thunderbolt, Nkwe was hit as if by a sledge hammer and tackled to the ground in what Basotho philosophers describe as “Lerole la dikatse tse kgolo” meaning the blinding dust of the big cats. Everything happened with such lightning speed that his counterstrike was not enough to reverse the advances of the nemesis. This is exactly the unenviable situation in which the ancestors of the African Natives found themselves when the lightning speed of colonial conquest hit them like a thunderbolt.
This Nkwe situation was like the great Albatros being intercepted by unruly winds as described in the book The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical Transcendence in a literary piece Unruly Winds as shown below:
“To descend like resized Meteoric rise like chastized The albatross defeats great winds Yet unruly winds reappear Like a fresh challenge from the rear”
In spite of the situation in which he finds himself, the great protagonist Nkwe must engender a new way to overcome the unruly situation as a metaphysical case of do or die!
The Fluid Dynamics of Extreme Resilience
He gathered his thoughts with respect to the rebound and the exit strategy on the harsh ground assisted by his strong recuperating skills. When the lion king tried to pin him down to tear him apart, Nkwe hit the lion king on the face with a vicious side swipe forcing the lion king to back away on a back foot. Like a lightning flash, Nkwe rose to his educated feet powered by his superior athletic and intellectual prowess. The members of the lion clan were awestruck by such an agile resurgence from setback.
Like a contrarian, the masterful Nkwe staged a ritualised repertoire of submissive behaviour patterns as a mark of respect to the lion society as if to make a vital point that he meant no disrespect to the sacrosanct space of the lion society and pleaded no contest to the rules. While the attention of the lion society was arrested by this ritualistic display of humility, the great Nkwe bared his fearsome teeth to make the necessary point that he boasted deadly weapons in the situation and would vigorously resist to the death any further humiliation; indignity and abuse against him. This litany of ritualistic behaviour patterns forced the lion king to think a thousand times before making the next move to the great Nkwe teaching us to resist those who seek to subjugate us and to extract fealty from us.
We give massive thanks to the erudite African ancestors and the griot professors who inspire us in this way so that we can retake our inalienable position as the unbought and unsold architects of destiny and to vibrate as we were intended to vibrate unimpeded by the intercepts of the terrestrial space.
From the book Sesotho Dictionary of Mathematics in a literary piece The Crossing To The Other Side we read the following about the great Zebra that must defeat the fearsome crocodiles in the crossing of the dangerous African river:
“The colossal crocodiles lie in ambush To destroy those easy to fleece Yet a diligent zebra’s kick is fierce To crush ambushing jaws to fragments Never more to be victimized by the ambush Unperturbed by those bewitching the mind”
This article is part of the full Zoom lecture as shown below:
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Topic: How To Transcend The Adverse Conditions: To Shake Off The Funks and The Negative Mood States
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When the Portuguess arrived in Azania (South Africa), they brought Christianity as a chiseling toolkit to prepare the heart and mind of the Azanian and to embed yena in a psychic vacuum space for subsequent colonial conquest. The Berlin Conference of 1844-45 gave a blanket fiat to the Portuguess to own the entire Southern Africa and her peoples on account of their first coastal arrival in the 1400s, more than 200 years before the advent of the Dutch and more than 400 years before the advent of the English which birthed the genesis of a Luso-Anglo-Dutch settler colonialism; the most brutal form of colonization as a result of a hybridization of colonialism; slavery and ECC (Euro-Christian Colonial) perpetuity.
Portuguese colonists deceiving our ancestors in Cape Town in December of 1497. Life has never been the same ever since. Picture Credit: Wikipedia.
The impact of Portuguess colonial occupation has left indellible traces in our geography; languages; infrastructure; religiosity and unquestioning obedience to Mlungu. With the adoption of Christianity, the African Natives have embraced the value system of Mlungu and abandoned the value system of their ancestors. How has Christianity impeded our ability to break free from the chains of mental enslavement with respect to the White establishment on account of a backstabbing wound? How has Christianity managed to make us believe the unbelievable and to accept the unacceptable? How has Christianity made it hard (if not impossible) to break free from mind control? Enter African Metaphysics of Christianity Zoom lecture!
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Before the calculator! Before the microscope! Before the telescope! There was African knowledge engineering!
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The legendary DJ Stephen Grootes of SAFM Radio interviewing me about Decolonising Psychology. This was an opportunity for me to demonstrate the principles of knowledge engineering on the popular radio platform. Listen to the podcast at the end of the article. Picture Credit: SAFM Radio station.
The Preamble
The Covid conditions of pestilence are forcing a reevaluation of the essence of our being with respect to the purpose of our destiny and our strategies of sustenance in the terrestrial space. The Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 is already sounding a death knell to our way of life as we know it. Where does that leave us as the African Natives of Azania (South Africa) who are highly hitched to a system of the ECC (Euro-Christian Colonial) establishment?
At our infancy, we are already born into the environment that prepares us to attend the schools built by the colonists; their colonial descendants; their colonial proxies or others to produce productive worker bees with unquestioning obedience. A triad of subliminal images is used as an ideological tool to inculcate and to reinforce the fact of unquestioning obedience namely (1) an image of a White institution; (2) an image of a White god and (3) an image of a white doll. We go on to attain our matriculation; junior degrees or post-graduate degrees thinking that we are on the top of the World when in fact we are miseducated about reality to sink well below the World of the mainstay of the economy. Why is that?
In the book A Woman In The Bush I write two literary pieces The Cold Maple Leaf and The Gentle Exclusion to describe the subliminal phenomenon of gentle oppression as methodologically practised and experienced in the great City of Ottawa, Canada.
To retake our position as the architects of our economic destiny, we need to understand three taxonomies namely (1) taxonomy of knowledge; taxonomy of economy and the (2) taxonomy of governance. These three taxonomies determine our ability or inability to become the architects of our economic destiny.
To retake our inelianable position as the unbought and unsold architects of destiny, we must shake off the funks and disembark the bandwagon of perpetual complaints like crying racism as an execuse for our failures. We must act the part like an unconquerable Nkwe / Ngonyama / African leopard that recovers from setback after being bullied and tackled to the humiliating ground by the killing machines of the mighty lions. Like an African athlete with extreme resilience, Nkwe rises to his educated feet while baring his fearsome teeth to show that he brings deadly weapons to the situation and will vigorously resist any further abuse. This incredible showcase of a physico-intellectual prowess is enough to cause the mighty lion king himself to think a thousand times before making the next move towards Nkwe. In this way, the indefatigable Nkwe is able to exit a life-demeaning and life-killing situation with his dignity intact unimpeded by the magnitude of the problem that befell him teaching us to recover from setback and to vigorously resist those who seek to subjugate us.
This article focuses attention on the taxonomy of knowledge using the principles of knowledge engineering premised on the thesis of African origin of engineering knowledge. The other taxonomies will be covered in seperate articles. This article is a preface to a full Zoom lecture to be conducted on Sunday April 11, 2021 via Zoom video. See Zoom details below.
What is knowledge? What are the design principles of knowledge? What is the conceptualisation of knowledge? For whom is knowledge produced and for what? Enter the knowledge engineering philosophy of African origin. You need this radical conceptualisation to enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution. You must not enter the 4IR as a knowledge consumer or practitioner but rather as a knowledge engineer.
The erudite African ancestors who have gone before us were knowledge engineers and producers as confirmed in the book The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical Transcendencewherein, among others, I trace the technological history of the calculator and provide a historiographical evidence that shows that the indigenous African calculator of Moruba used in the Royal Court of Mapongubjwe in the present day province of Limpopo of Azania predates by more than 800 years the invention of the European calculator Thomas Arithmoneter designed by the French engineer Thomas de Colmar in the 1800s. The modern calculator is a derivative of the Thomas Arithmoneter.
The sophisticated African multidimensional array calculator of Moruba edged in stone was used as part of the Azanian Sea (Indian Ocean) mercantile trade system which included many merchants of Mozambique; Malawi; Zimbabwe; Botswana; Zambia; Congo; Tanzania; Kenya; Somalia; Ethiopia; India; China; Nubia; Turkey and many others. In this article I show the modelling of the algorithm utilised by the Moruba using a triad of polar stones with polarities of positive charge; negative charge and neutral charge.
Thus, our ancestors entered the World trade system as producers and knowledge engineers and not as consumers as is the case today. It is for this reason that as the beautiful sons and daughters of Azania we must reverse course to be inspired by the intellectual achievements of the African ancients who have gone before us.
To learn more about the concept of knowledge engineering of African origin read the following article:
In Western universities, knowledge is conceptualised as an idealistic system. Let’s define the concept of ideal where idealistic comes from. The Oxford English dictionary defines ideal as follows:
Ideal: “Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence embodying an ideal”.
This defines the word in the manner that is ordinarily used in everyday life. In his book Long Walk To Freedom, the great President Nelson Mandela writes about Banabakhe Blayi, an affluent boy at the Xhosa circumcision school that Mandela attended as a Xhosa boy. Banabakhe narrated lots of exhilarating stories about the Black mine workers in the Johannesburg City of gold. This is what Mandela has to say:
“He [Banabakhe] so thrilled us with tales of the mines that he almost persuaded me that to be a miner was more alluring than to be a monarch. Miners had a mystique; to be a miner meant to be strong and daring, the ideal of manhood”. Square brackets and italics are mine.
Xhosa boy at circumcision school. Picture Credit: Peter Magubane from SouthAfrica.co.za online.
Mandela is using the word ideal to mean the ultimate standard of perfection. His usage of the word is congruent with the schools he graduated from because this is how the word is defined. Take out your pen and paper because I am about to give you a radically new way of conceptualising about this word.
Ideal is not really about the ultimate standard of perfection. This is the meaning that has been acquired through usage overtime. Etymologically, ideal means made of ideas. Thus, idealistic which is a derivative of ideal refers to a system of ideas. This is what I meant when I said earlier that Western institutions of higher learning conceptualise about knowledge as an idealistic system. For them knowledge is a system of ideas. This is confirmed by the awarding of the highest PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) degree which buttresses the point that this doctoral graduate is the highest achiever of the system of ideas. This explains why a doctoral dissertation requires rigorous training in research methodologies; theoretical frameworks; research designs and research paradigms.
Model of a PSA (polar stone arrangement) algorithm used in the Moruba calculator; analytically verified by reverse engineering and technically designed by Z.Zulu.
In this article we analytically cover the taxonomy of knowledge domains namely (1) primordial domain: (2) private domain and (3) public domain to educate you about the correct rigour of conceptualisation with respect to knowledge as a knowledge engineer and not as a knowledge consumer.
How do the indigenous Africans, like the Basotho philosophers, conceptualise about knowledge? The Sesotho word for knowledge is Tsebo from the word Tseba which means to know. A regression analysis of the word Tseba using the morphological analysis book Sesotho Dictionary of Lexemes (unpublished) shows that the word has two lexemes namely (1) tse and (2) ba meaning sensing and cardinality respectively. Sensing is about metaphysical access to knowledge and cardinality is about the number of elements of knowing. Thus, for the African, knowing is about metaphysics whereas for the Westerners knowing is about ideas. Metaphysical knowledge is a system of knowledge based on reality whereas idealistic knowledge is a system of knowledge based on ideas. For the African epistemologist, reality is the superset of knowing and the ideas is the subset of the superset. For the Western epistemologist, ideas is the superset of knowing and reality is the subset of the superset which explains why an eye witness observer may lose a court case because of a persuasive syllogistic arguement mounted by a defense attorney. Syllogism is about ideas premised on idealism.
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The stringent conditions of Covid pestilence are fasttracking our trajectory onto the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hitherto, the African Natives have been interacting with the previous and current Third Industrial Revolutions as consumers and workers. Hereafter, the African Natives must enter this 4IR as the architects of destiny inspired by the intellectual achievements of the erudite ancestors who solved novel problems as knowledge engineers and not just knowledge consumers. Enter African Origin of Knowledge Engineering brought to you by Madisebo University Research Institute, a treasure chest of incredible longitudinal research knowledge.
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Zulu, Z. (2008). ‘Ontological States of the Object’, Unpublished, Ottawa, Canada.
Zulu, Z. (2009). ‘The African Philosophy of Coexistentialism’, Unpublished, Ottawa, Canada.
Dear friends I am sharing a video clip of an interview with the great eNCA TV News anchor Shahan Ramkisson on Friday March 18, 2021 in the afternoon at 3pm.
The interview was part of tribute to the great Zulu King Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu who transitioned from the terrestrial space to the spiritual realm of the ancestors on Friday morning March 12, 2021 in Azania (South Africa). May his royal spirit rest in peace knowing that we shall pick up his fallen spear to continue the great indefatigable struggle to shake off the vestigial chains of the ECC (Euro-Christian Colonial) system.
The interview was very much about how does succession work in an indigenous African royalty. Watch the view as I describe the Lekgotla system and the methods of succession. Please comment and share the video with friends and family. Siyathokoza Makhosi! Mocholoko.
I was scheduled to be in conversation with SAFM DJ, Stephen Grootes at 8:20am this morning. I circulated this information to my followers via Whatsapp. SAFM then contacted me later to inform me that there had been a reprogramming of the show to pay tribute to the great Zulu King Zwelithini ka Bhekuzulu. I was then given an opportunity to pay my tribute to the great King Zwelithini. The podcast you will be listening to below is from the interview Idid this morning.
In this rejigged interview I was interviewed by another great DJ, Cathy Mohlahlana of SAFM shown below:
Cathy Mohlahlane of SAFM Radio
The Tribute
We are deeply saddened this morning with the melancholy news of the passing of the great Zulu King Zwelithini ka Bhekuzulu at hospital where he had been hospitalised for a month due to glucose readings. King Zwelithini is survived by his six wives and twenty eight children. May his indefatigable spirit rest in peace knowing that we shall pick up his fallen spear to continue the great struggle to shake off the vestigial chains of the ECC (Euro-Christian Colonisation) and to continue the decolonisation project of education that he stood up for.
King Goodwill Zwelithini ka Dinizulu. Picture Credit: SowetanLive.
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born on July 17,1948 at Nongoma in Northern part of what was then Zululand and the present day KwaZulu-Natal. He espoused the African origin of philosophy in matters of education; indigenous knowledge systems; cultural traditions; African design methods of architecture and more. He hosted the convivial Reed Dance ceremony each year and Umkhosi Wokweshwama, among others, each year. In this way, he strengthened the faith in indigenous African traditions.
He advocated for the decolonisation of education citing an example of history that asserts that the history of Azanian (South Africa) began with the advent of Jan Van Riebeeck in 1952. He had said that the historical timeline needs to be taught from the African vantage point of genesis and not from the Eurocentric beginnings.
The Prayer of the Ancestors
I am hereby paying tribute to the great Isilo sa Mabandla through The Prayer of the Ancestors as shown below:
“Those who have departed from the terrestrial space, shall rise up to see you! They shall breathe the fresh air of the cosmic space and look upon your glorious appearing when the Disk (Ledika/Indilinga/The Sun) rises from the horizon! Their hearts are at peace when they behold you and their wrongs of physicality are hereby expunged. The great Gods of Eternity and Infinity, you are forever cherished by us. Badimo ke bao! Thokoza Makhosi!”
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On Tuesday March 2, 2021 I was interviewed by the great DJ and a legend in his own right Stephen Grootes of SAFM Radio about decolonising psychology. I shared a platform with an erudite Unisa (University of South Africa) Professor of Psychology Puleng Segalo. It is noteworthy that it is not the first time sharing a stage with Professor Puleng. We shared a platform in 2018 at the 7th Africa Century International African Writers Conference (ACIAWC) as shown below: https://africacenturyconference.co.za/2018-speakers/
Radio Host, Stephen Grootes of SAFM Radio
At this radio interview Professor Puleng broke the ground as the first speaker and I spoke afterwards as a concluding speaker. Professor Puleng argued persuasively that African principles of rituals; ollective grieving and methods of healing should be centered in the discipline of psychology.
Professor Puleng Segalo, Professor of Psychology speaking at University of South Africa.
While Professor Puleng made excellent points about the operational knowledge of psychology and the need for Africanisation, I extended the horizons of the discourse by injecting new ideas from knowledge engineering to focus attention on the use cases of psychology such as the design principles; the idealistic system; the cardinality of the system of logic and how the African taxonomy of healing like botanical medicine; volcanic medicine and ritualistic medicine can contribute novel ideas in the decolonisation of psychology so that a re-engineered discipline of psychology can produce the much needed efficacy of healing for all humankind.
Without further ado listen to the pidcasts below:
Mocholoko Dr. Zulumathabo Zulu, Research Scientist and Director of Madisebo University Research Institute
Professor Puleng Segalo, Professor of Psychology at University of South Africa.
Madisebo University Information Session – SECURE (Must pre-register to attend this auspicious Zoom gathering)
Madisebo University imagery using Ditema Writing System of the Basotho! Artistry by Z. Zulu.
You can view an embedded Youtubevideo of this event at the end of this article.
The Preamble
We give massive thanks to the erudite and sharplooking engineer granddaughter of the great legends Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu, the enterprising and indefatigable Gogo Galetlolwe Semenya. We need more of her unbought and unsold beautiful mind! We want all the African descendants of the beautiful and unconquerable Thari/Imbeleko (The Melanin) in the African Motherland and the Diaspora to know and to gain an instinctive grasp of the seismic vibrations of the African buffalo spirit. It is the vibrational medicine of the African buffalo that recharges our African spiritual batteries.
Engineer Gogo Mokgalaka Galetlolwe wa ga Semenya
Nobody is going to do anything for us! The erudite Basotho ancients instruct us with the axioms: “Ntho tse ntle diya iketsetswa” / “Izinto ezintle ziyazenzelwa“; “The good things you must yourself“; “Mphemphe e ya lapisa, Motho o kgonwa ke sa haye” / “Ukucela njalonjalo kuya lambisa, uMuntu ukholiswa esakhe“; “Frequent begging creates hunger, the human is satieted by own produce“.
Despite the abysmal scars and the indellible memories inflicted by the genocidal holocausts of the ECC (Euro-Christian Colonial) systems and institutions and the reparations denied, the African buffalo must arise to shake off the dust and the funks to tackle and to defeat the killing machines of the mighty lions to vibrate as yena was intended to vibrate so that Mother Afrika and her babies are free from miseducation; free from poverty; free from pestilence; free from conflict and free from immorality for her to rise and to prosper for the survival benefit of the future generations of Thari/Imbeleko (The Melanin).
Dear Erudite Family,
This is an important follow-up to my previous communication! We have been advised to strengthen the security of Madisebo University Information Session Zoom meeting. The previous Zoom link given to you is no longer valid! It has been cancelled in favour of a pre-registration Zoom link provided below.
Seats are limited! You must act fast to be part of the gathering. You will not be able to join the meeting if the limit has been reached. You must now pre-register so that you are pre-approved for this meeting. You will follow the instructions below to register and if approved, you will receive an approved email with login details. You will be able to join the Zoom meeting with those details. This Zoom link contained in your email is unique to you and cannot be shared with anyone!
The purpose of the Madisebo University Information Session is to inform you about this Mophato/Corporate University model; the course offerings and the training modalities in accordance with the African Origins of Philosophy. As you already know, Mocholoko is the unbought protagonist of African origins of knowing so that we are not miseducated by those who seek to subjugate us!
Listen to a podcast at the end of this postof 702 FM Radio interview with an indefatigable DJ, Refiloe Mpakanyane who interviewd me on Saturday January 23, 2021 about Pre-Thwasa Counselling.
The Preamble
Madisebo University in the great land of endless sunshine of Azania (South Africa) is an independent institution of indigenous African teaching and learning based on the tertiary principles of the Mophato school system of the Basotho ancients and the modern Corporate University training model. Madisebo University is a new paradigm case intended to emancipate and to empower Thari (Bana Ba Thari / Abantwana Be Mbeleko / The Descendants of the Melanin) to be free from miseducation; free from conflict; free from immorality; free from poverty and free from pestilence.
The independent Madisebo University is inspired by the tertiary principles of the Mophato school system of the Basotho erudite ancestors who have gone before us. Ntho tse ntle di ya iketsetswa. Mphempe e ya lapisa, motho o kgonwa ke sa haye. Picture Credit: Z. Zulu.
It behooves Thari to retake their inalienable role as the unbought and unsold architects of destiny as it was meant to be by the erudite African ancestors who have gone before us. We give massive thanks to the erudite and selfless African ancestors who have watered the tree of freedom with their unblemished and sacred blood teaching us to resist and to break the chains of those who seek to subjugate us; to rape the African Motherland and to rob us of our natural resources that were bequeathed to us by the African ancients who have gone before us.
The Genesis of a New School
to retake the destiny stolen by the entity. They miseducate Emory To misinform about reality To believe the unbelievable To accept the unacceptable Hence, the genesis of a new school
massive data of cyberspace, needs a metaphysical case. To train a knowledge consumer To think like knowledge engineer Unbought and unsold liberators Unimpeded by deprivation To build the new school
Contextual Commentary
From the preamble of the Teaching and Learning Charter of Madisebo University we read the following as a contextual commentary of the literary piece The Genesis of a New School:
“The melanated mother buffalo teaches the melanated buffalo child at the buffalo school [1] that was birthed by the buffalo ancients who have gone before her. The learning begins in the primordial waters inside her stomach through the cultural and metaphysical cues of her environment. The brain of the child is wired through the cultural environment of the buffalo clan. When the buffalo student is ready after viviparous landing, the griot professors make a glorious appearing and the doors of the buffalo school open ajar to welcome the effervescent student.
The buffalo school is a geostrategic pipeline that produces the unbought and unsold architects of destiny who are more than ready to tackle and to defeat the killing machines of the mighty lions [2] so that the clan can vibrate as they were intended to vibrate unimpeded by the ever present danger of the terrain in the grasslands.
Herein, the independent Madisebo University has opened her doors like a buffalo school to teach you correctly so that you are not miseducated by the historically colonial schools and the accomplice church in the colonisation and enslavement of the African descendants. Madisebo University curriculum is culturally built upon the pillars of the indigenous knowledge systems and the intellectual achievements of our erudite African ancestors who have gone before us.
Afrocentric school that teaches agentic African Civilisation.
Eurocentric schools that teach Eurocentric Civilisation and kill indigenous African cultural knowledge systems.
The Birthing of Madisebo University
Since the advent of colonization in 1497 led by Vasco da Gama of Portugal using the ECC (Euro-Christian Colonialism); Jan van Riebeeck of Netherlands in 1652 and the British Colonial Administration of England in 1806, the indigenous people of Azania have been consistently and vehemently subjected to a sophisticated; well resourced and institutionalised form of miseducation about the reality of the genocidal holocaust engendered by colonisation; slavery and dispossession forcing the African descendants to believe the unbelievable and to accept the unacceptable.
Madisebo University was born out of the travails of this subliminal and concrete-steel manifestation of miseducation with the intent to reverse this poisoning of the mind that subjects the African descendants to a tragic triad of (1) self-hate and mutual hate; (2) erosion; vilification and extinction of African knowledge; language and identity and (3) perpetual institutionalisation of economic deprivation.
Conceptualised as an anti-colonial; anti-slavery and anti-miseducation institution of higher learning with great veneration to Mophato of the Basotho ancestors, Madisebo University is an independent and disruptive institution premised on the sacrosanct principles of inalienable indigenous African origins and ways of knowing. To ensure the non-existence of miseducation, Madisebo University will train her own teachers as griot professors and knowledge engineers who teach and model the sacrosanct principles of the African origins of knowledge.
The Philosophy of the Triangle. Artistic RenditionCredit: Z. Zulu.
This pedagogical mechanism is intended to equip the gutsy spirit of Thari with intellectual fighting sticks of Mophato to retake their inalienable role as the unbought and unsold architects of destiny as it was meant to be by the erudite African ancestors who have gone before us.
The New Colonisation
The all or nothing time of do or die has dawned upon us! We perpetually give massive thanks to the highly venerated cosmologic voices of the ancestors urging us to shake off the legitimised axiological chains of miseducation; the ontological chains of economic deprivation and the technological chains of new colonisation and enslavement via the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We must be enterprising and effervescent to shake off these crushing chains so that we can vibrate as we were intended to vibrate unimpeded by the adverse conditions and the perturbations of the terrestrial space.
It is prudent to inform you that these new chains of colonisation are real and are already dangling over you as confirmed by a search for “east India company” on the CIPC (Commission of Intellectual Properties and Companies) of the Government of Azania website in recent times when I was writing this article. The results showed two companies as shown below:
Dutch East India Company
British East India Company
I was stunned beyond shock and awe when I saw these minacious names of companies matching word for word the exact names of the colonial/slave trade companies of the 1600s which brutalised our ancestors through the commando system by exterminating the resisting fathers; violently raping their wives and daughters and taking their children into the crushing chains of slavery thus to subject them to perpetual genocide and holocaust for which reparations are consistently and vigorously vetoed by the colonial and slave trade descendants. Even a powerful and prestigious World body like the United Nations is impotent in this matter like genitalia that is arrested by sexual dysfunction. This is a metaphysical case because a male organ is not able to experience erection when arrested by fear.
As I write these lines, I am arrested by fear of what is coming to us. What are the names of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company doing on the CIPC database? The Government has a lot of explaining to do to the people of Azania.
I thought these companies of colonisation and enslavement had ceased to exist long ago and no right thinking entrepreneurs would associate themselves with a dark history of genocidal holocaust. Moreover, I trusted the Government of Azania to blacklist and disallow the registration of such named companies but I was wrong. Thus, Azania, Africa and Diaspora you must wake up and smell the coffee of dangerous things to come in addition to Covid.
The British East India Company was chartered on December 31, 1600. While the ordinary and innocent people of England were celebrating the end of the year and the dawn of the New Year, the sleepless and conniving royal family and their lieutenants were busy at work to strategise and to architect the colonisation and enslavement of our ancestors. The British East India Company became defunct on June 1, 1874 (Wikipedia, 2021).
The Dutch East India Company was chartered two years later on March 20, 1602. While the ordinary and innocent people of Netherlands were celebrating the dawn of Spring, the sleepless and conniving royal family and their lieutenants were busy at work to strategise and to architect the colonisation and enslavement of our ancestors. The Dutch East India Company became defunct on January 1, 1800 (Wikipedia, 2021).
What are they doing with these companies? Are they resuscitating the violent machinery of colonisation and slave trade that ushered the the most brutal Luso-Anglo-Dutch settler colonization in Azania that we found impossible to dislodge completely? Are we seeing the resurgence of the cruel and brutal chains by way of re-colonisation and re-enslavement? Are the Suzerains trying to transform our countries into vassal states so that they can permanently extract fealty from us? Has someone in the Government of Azania sold us out?
This fact needs to be brought to the attention of the great Honourable President Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet. They will act promptly on this. We still get teary over the question of colonial conquest and the slave trade. My unbought and unsold brothers and sisters who read these sacred pages of the ancestors please research this fact or any other signs of re-colonisation and re-enslavement and share your independent findings with me. We give massive thanks to the erudite ancestors who have gone before us teaching us to resist the chains of subjugation and foreign occupation!
The Covid Situation
In spite of the killer SARSCov2 virus of 2019 that causes the Covid conditions of pestilence, the unconquerable Thari shall emerge victorious thanks to the protective mechanisms of the molecular structure and the secret code of the Melanin and the taxa of Ditlama (Botanical); Nkukumuwi (Volcanic) and Masika (Ritualistic) medicine that were bequeathed to us by the erudite African ancestors who envisaged these existential perturbations of the terrestrial space as shown below.
masakana a pholo ya Basotho {Ditlama; Nkukumuwi; Masika}
taxa of Basotho medicine {Botanical; Volcanic; Ritualistic}
We were at the home of the unbought and unsold Isanusi, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa around the night fire on Saturday August 11, 2018 with his beautiful wife Kedisaletse along with the delegations of uMsamo African Origin of Philosophy; Madisebo University; North West University and Durban University of Technology when Isanusi told us in solemn terms about the minacious advent of warlike conditions as foreshadowed hitherto by the lunar eclipse of Friday July 27, 2018 and confirmed hereafter by the advent of Covid-19 in 2020 in Azania. The great Isanusi (may his soul rest in peace) transitioned to the spiritual realm of the ancestors on Wednesday March 25, 2020 on the eve of the military lockdown in the land of Azania.
The substance of his prophetic message was that these adverse conditions were driven by the spirit of war making. Thus, it is not just pestilence as reported by officialdom, it is Moralo wa Lewa (strategic design) to reduce the survival experience of the unconquerable Melanin. May the souls of the departed rest in peace knowing that the explosive prowess of the Melanin shall defeat the Covid conditions of pestilence and retake the land of the ancestors.
The Curriculum System
The advent of the information super highway means that we have access to billions of web pages; research papers and books of knowledge. This massive knowledge base requires new skills of epistemic uptake. Instead of a knowledge uptake by regurgitation as is the case with historically colonial schools, our instinctive need for decolonisation requires a new paradigm approach. The massive knowledge unleashed by the cyberspace necessitates that you think of knowledge as a knowledge engineer and not just a knowledge consumer. You need to go under the hood of knowledge to understand the design principles of knowledge that you consume.
This is where the new Madisebo University steps to the plate. Madisebo University conceptualises about knowledge as a car engine. To understand this engine design metaphor you require a disruptive paradigm shift to think outside the box of the establishment like an engineer. Madisebo University will train you like a knowledge engineer so that you can understand the design principles of epistemic; axiologic and ontic systems and gain mastery of the constitutive components of this knowledge engine directed by African philosophy of transcendence as described in the book The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical Transcendence in the literary peace Venturesome Kisses as shown below:
“Forbidden grounds of love cast their spell. The naivety of love sweetens the love that exists like a desert flower. Deprived of water, the flower waits underground until, when the rains fall, it springs to life knowing that the rain will soon be gone.”
The new paradigm is existential given the fact that knowledge is also packaged as a blackbox so that the internals are hidden from you. You only have access to the interface. This blackbox design allows those who seek to subjugate us to mess with our hearts and minds setting us up to believe the unbelievable and to accept the unacceptable. The blackbox design also requires superior skills of reverse engineering and regression analysis. Madisebo University is well positioned with its massive knowledge base; longitudinal data and intellectual capital to equip you with cutting edge training so that you think like a knowledge engineer and act like one.
To understand this knowledge engineer construct, let’s take an engineering look at a car engine. A car engine is comprised by three layers namely (1) HCL (head cylinder layer); (2) BCL (block cylinder layer) and (3) CCL (crankcase layer). The HCL is the fuel input and brain of the engine; the BCL is the combustion processor and producer of linear motion and the CCL is the transformative output of mechanical motion. For the car to move, the CCL must transform linear motion from the BCL into lateral motion.
The design principles of Madisebo University are congruent with the car engine construct. Madisebo University is comprised by three schools namely (1) School of Cosmology; (2) School of Metascience and (3) School of Metaphysics. Cosmology is about the input of the cosmologic genesis and the identity of the African ancients which provides fuel input to the essence of our being like Diboko/Direto/Izithakazelo/Iziduko. Metascience is about the processing using strategic knowledge of science and healing principles of Ditlama (Botanical); Nkukumuwi (Volcanic) and Masika (Ritualistic) medicine. Metaphysics is about the transformative Nkareteng (scientific study of reality) and the actualisation of our dreams and a better future for those coming after us so that we can vibrate like a car engine that vibrates as it was intended to vibrate.
There will be three designations in terms of training and convocation namely (1) Yellow Belt Knowledge Engineer (equivalent to undergraduate training); (2) Brown Belt Knowledge Engineer (equivalent to Masters training) and (3) Black Belt Knowledge Engineer (equivalent to doctoral training).
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