The group that decides to form a publishing cooperative...
The group that decides to form a publishing cooperative can/should decide to create a professional
training school for researcher-writers.
The training school-history, logically summarized and chronologically
ordered; design of scientific research, including the planning and implementation of components into an organized whole;
To
produce art, we need to develop our ability to see the work both as a whole and as a set of component parts, both as a finished
product and as an on-going process.
Training in any technical craft, from the beginnings of systematic instruction
is based in one way or another on the application of this method.
Throughout the world, few African people
acquire the skills to actually design, engineer, and produce material and intellectual goods needed to advance Black African
societies. Those few that do acquire such skills work for white or non-African institutions, which in the final analysis,
advances their civilization at the expense of ours.
On the one hand Black people are consistently and systematically
denied opportunities to education, which would put African people in positions to change present realities; on the other hand,
when openings arise, Black people willingly take paths carved for them by the populations that have historically harmed them.
The time spent working in white, Arab and other institutions is time spent not working toward African independence
and advancement.
Given the historical and prevailing realities, African people throughout the world as a whole
lack the necessary technical skills to do anything for ourselves. [We are trained to discuss problems, not solve them.
Our standard approach to all problems is to attend workshops and forums, participate on task forces and give speeches to raise
consciousness rather than rolling up the sleeves and practically working to solve the problem. "In effect, we have
made it our profession to alert other people to the existence of problems needing solutions.
Only the opposite
will change this reality. In other words, only by developing technical skills and applying them to address real problems
can this reality begin to change. To do so requires the "determined application of technical skills at all levels"[1].
That Kmt persisted for so long undoubtedly was linked to the documentary record bequeathed each generation
from its predecessors. New scientific discoveries and moral developments were built upon the already established foundations
of those who came before them.
The publication and dissemination of scientific documents, moral texts, and
procedural manuals are necessary in the practical technical training of African people in order to put us in a position to
know how to produce the material necessities of our existence.
Charge of morally sound African scientists and
thinkers-to end this historical fraud and independently decipher and publish own ancient indigenous documents
Indeed,
cultural legacy is so important---so fundamental to the maintenance of civilization---that some groupings have made up their
antiquity and have therefore built intellectual and moral houses of cards on shifting sands. Africans have a real (but
fractured) cultural relationship with ancient African Kmt, but have wastefully failed to not unearth, redeem, resurrect or
restore this fundamental necessity of life.
[1] Armah, A. 2006. "Eloquence of the Scribes. " Per Ankh Publishers: Popenguine, Senegal.
p. 275.
