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 11, 2011

OMOLUABI

Dr. Segun Gbadegesi spoke on the topic of Omoluabi. The real focus was Self Actualization and Communal Responsibility.

Omoluabi is a child begotten of the chief (source) of Iwa.
Iwa means character.
So Dr. Gbadegesi was trying to help learn how to develop character. He was telling us the story of Iwa. And Iwa was the wife of Orunmila. Orunmila was mistreating Iwa which eventually made Iwa leave Orunmila. Because Iwa left, Orunmila lost everything he had and tried so hard to look anf find Iwa once again.
This exemplifies that if character leaves you or you loose your character nothing good will come to you. Here are some definitions given to us

Iwa Lewa: good character is Beauty
Iwa Ioba Awure: Goog charater is the greatest tails man for wealth.

So ultimately what we need in life is characcter. To succeed we must keep good character and great things including wealth will come to us.

-Kapri R.
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