An international happiness survey says that a happy life includes good relationships, good health, and satisfying work. Well, what are the schools producing? Relationships are stifled in age-divided classrooms, silent lunches, and too little recess; Health is subverted by sitting [...]
Over the years, I have read many books that have helped me on my journey to homeschooling. These books inspired me and also helped me to make curricular decisions as I developed an Afrikan-centered framework. It’s really too many to [...]
Liberation to all,
Here is another interview in our Education for Liberation Interview Series. With the rise of Black homeschooling, this video series aims to help Afrikan people on their journey to homeschool or build an Afrikan-centered educational institution.
Our guest is Amari Rebel, guitar player and educator. The brotha breaks down our Afrikan-centered homeschoolers are really modern maroons.
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Revolutionary Love,
Baba Dr. Brotha Samori Camara
Liberation to all,
Here is the first interview to start our Education for Liberation Interview Series. With the rise of Black homeschooling, this video series aims to help Afrikan people on their journey to homeschool or build an Afrikan-centered educational institution.
Our first guest is Baba Sekou Olayinka of Ijoba Shule. The Brother is a Babalawo filled with knowledge.
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For my book, Education for Liberation: The Top 20 Questions and Answers for Black Homeschoolers
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Revolutionary Love,
Baba Dr. Brotha Samori Camara
An international happiness survey says that a happy life includes good relationships, good health, and satisfying work.
Well, what are the schools producing? Relationships are stifled in age-divided classrooms, silent lunches, and too little recess; Health is subverted by sitting in school desks all day and eating garbage for lunch; and, standardized testing prep and Eurocentric curriculum ignores any work linked to our children’s purpose or interest.
No wonder our children…
Revolutionary Love,
Baba Dr. Brotha Samori Camara
Over the years, I have read many books that have helped me on my journey to homeschooling. These books inspired me and also helped me to make curricular decisions as I developed an Afrikan-centered framework. It’s really too many to list, but I’ll give you some of my top choices. In my opinion, these books would be foundational if we ever developed a School of Afrikan-Centered Education.
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah
The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness by Amos Wilson
Awakening the Natural Genius of the Black Child by Amos Wilson
The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by Amos Wilson
NationBuilding: The Theory and Practice of Afrikan Centered Education by Kwame Agyei Akoto
Sankofa: African Thought and Education by Elleni Tedla
The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Asafo: A Warrior’s Guide to Manhood by Mwalimu Baruti
Revolutionary Love,
Baba Dr. Brotha Samori Camara
What’s your favorite movie or documentary for young warriors?
We also watched a snippet of the Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes documentary.
In 2008, I worked as one of the three teaching assistants for my doctoral advisor’s Black Power Movement class. I lectured a great deal in the class, which had over two hundred students. As a passionate student and teacher, I pulled no punches. I spoke truth with the intention of changing minds.
One night while grading my third of the papers, I noticed that many of the white students were scoring well of the exam and, unfortunately, lots of the Black students were lagging behind. In truth, I got a little frustrated. “How could the whites students be doing better in a class totally about Black people?”
Really, interested in the answer, as the next study session, I asked some of the white students about how they were getting good grades. The answers were similar: “I study a lot.” “I use mnemonic devices.” “I study as hard as I can so that I can keep my G.P.A. up so I can get into the graduate school of my choice.” “The content is interesting, but it’s not really my cup of tea.”
The trend continued until the end of the semester. Many of my whites students earned As and walked out never to really engage the subject matter again. But then I had many Black students who received Bs and Cs, but told me that the class truly changed their lives. In fact, a few asked for more books on the Black experience so that they could continue to delve deeper and continue on the road towards knowledge of self.
In reflecting on the class in the following days, I began to question the validity of letter grades. I asked myself, “Would I want a student who gets an A by memorizing all the information only to forget it after the test? Or, would I want a student who gets a lower grade, struggles to retain the information, but is curious to learn more and is moved to change by the knowledge?”
My answer: I would take the student with the low grade and curiosity any day. For curiosity opens the door to wisdom, while working for a letter grade looks good in the short term, but leads nowhere.
Dr. Samori Camara
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The new book is called Education for Liberation: The Top 20 Questions and Answers for Black Homeschoolers
Are you ready to take the education of your child into your own hands? Are you disgusted with over testing and miseducation? Are you unsure about how to go about getting started on the journey of providing education for liberation?
Then, this book is for you. Within it, I use my years of practice and research to answer the most pressing questions new homeschooling parents have. No need to scour the internet getting half-truths and whole lies. The answers are here.
Will your child be able to go to college? Without question!
Can you do it? Absolutely!
“As parents you are the first teachers, so why not continue that natural process. You can teach your child using a culturally relevant curriculum, cultivate their minds and grow their spirits, and help bring out the natural genius already within them. You can find the time, resources, and faith to give your child the greatest gift: the gift of self-love, self-awareness, and self-determination.”
Revolutionary Love,
Dr. Samori Camara
A scrawny Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a strong-looking House-dog who was passing by. “Greetings, Cousin,” said the Dog. “Your irregular life will soon be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly given to you?”
“I would have no objection,” said the Wolf, “if I could only get a place.”
“I will easily arrange that for you,” said the Dog; “come with me to my master and you shall share my work.”
So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On the way there, the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the Dog’s neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had come about.
“Oh, it is nothing,” said the Dog. “That is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it.”
“Is that all?” said the Wolf. “Then good-bye to you, Master Dog.”
During my years in the public fool system, I was the master dog.
Even though I felt confined and restricted in my ability to teach liberating truth to my students, I eventually resigned myself to the cage of teaching for the test and eurocentric indoctrination.
I failed to challenge the system because the meals were steady and the possibility of it not being there terrified me.
Eventually, I removed the chain, left the gated yard behind, and found freedom in Kamali Academy.
Today, I walk with the wolf. What are you waiting for?
Revolutionary Love!
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May 15th, 2013 
