Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael)

"Kwame Ture was born Stokely Carmichael on June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the son of Adolphus and Mabel Carmichael. He immigrated to the United States in 1952 with his family and settled in New York, New York. He graduated from the academically elite Bronx High School of Science in 1960 and made the decision to attend Howard University. Howard University conferred on him a Bachelor of Science Degree in Philosophy in 1964. It was while in Washington that Stokely became deeply involved in the "Freedom Rides," "Sit-Ins," and other demonstrations to challenge segregation in American society.......

While residing in Africa, Stokely Carmichael changed his name to "Kwame Ture" to honor Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence from Britain, and, Sekou Toure, who was President of Guinea and his mentor. For more than 30 years, Ture led the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and devoted the rest of his life to Pan Africanism, a movement to uproot the inequities of racism for people of African descent and to develop an economic and cultural coalition among the African Diaspora......

In 1998, at the age of 57, Kwame Ture died from complications of prostate cancer. To the end he answered the telephone, "ready for the revolution."
Saturday, May 8
Howard University Commencement 1999


It is our duty as students here at Howard University to continue the legacy of Kwame Ture through attaining higher education and using our knowledge to make a positive change not only in "Black America", but throughout the world--to always be "ready for the revolution."

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Learning, Wisdom, and the African World

The Thursday Lecture a.k.a Thursday Night Live has officially busted out of the cage. I felt like I was at a concert, but I'm pretty sure it was because of the great Mbongi that was created by Dr. Carr in our first lecture. An Mbongi is a great sense of community. Like a think tank, an mbongi is a community dedicated to thinking, forming an opinion, and ultimately voicing that opinion with power. I learned four words that are associated with mbongi: "Boko", "Yemba", "Lusanga", and "Kioto". Boko literally means to break or cut. For the purposes of an mbongi, it helps to decide solutions to difficult problems or situations. Yemba means to make shelter or protect. I feel that the Howard University is the Yemba in which we Howard students dwell and develop our mbongi. Lusanga means to mix or assemble. In a mbongi, people are able to use their "lusanga" skills to develop one solution that comes from diverse minds and cultures. The last word, Kioto, means to intake or inhale. In a mbongi, anyone is able to inhale or process information or advice from other members of the mbongi.

-Britni Cuington
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