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The 15th Anniversary of TMP 2007 -2034
15 Years Down, 12 Years to Go This December 10th marks 15 years of CBACS’ flagship initiative, The Metanoia Project (TMP) 2007-2034. It was launched in 2007 with the aim of consciously creating a better future for Descendants of Enslaved Africans (DoEAs) and in doing so transform British culture for the better. The focus of TMP is on us, as DoEAs, achieving this goal since we are the ones historically and spiritually positioned to do so. The Metanoia Project was launched on December 10th because of its wider significance as International Human Rights Day. At its core The Metanoia Project is about the recognition of our humanity as DoEAs, something that is…
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The 13th Anniversary of TMP 2007 -2034
13 Years Down, 14 Years to Go The Metanoia Project (TMP) 2007-2034 was launched in 2007 and continues to be CBACS’ method of consciously contributing to the transformation of British culture. We do so by committing ourselves as Descendants of Enslaved Africans (DoEA) to achieving William Wilberforce’s second project: the reformation of manners (culture). The focus of TMP is on us, as DoEAs, achieving this goal since we are the ones historically and spiritually positioned and equipped to do so. In 2020 the work of TMP has never been more important, with the fore fronting of The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. A response from DoEAs in the US to…
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‘Sitting in Limbo’: A British African Caribbean (BAC) Response
I ‘ve watched the above drama a couple of times since it aired on Monday. I watched it from the emotional lenses of a ‘child of the Windrush Generation’ who arrived in England in 1959 to join my parents who travelled to England earlier in the decade. I also watched it through the lenses of an integrated self-authoring/transforming British African Caribbean (BAC). This is having, in adulthood, consciously and deliberately worked through the cultural phase of the individuation process during the period of my employment as a lecturer at London South Bank University (LSBU) the result of racial victimisation catapulting me into a race-based identity crisis. From the emotional lenses…
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Black Lives Matter: A Response to Racial Apartheid in the 21st Century
The assertion of those socialised 'black' that 'black lives matter' is an acknowledgement that 'black lives do not matter' in Western societies.
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Colourful Radio Interview
Jacqueline Malcolm, the skilful and endearing host of JabberTalk at Colourful Radio, quickly got me sharing ‘my story’ of transformational change, the result of race-based crisis in 1990 and more recently in 2015. It was heartwarming to have a conversation with Jacqui and Pixie. They could both empathise with the challenges we faced as ‘black’ children/young people in navigating the challenges of the school system in the 60s and 70s. This is now having arrived at our ‘eldership’ years in 2019. As such, we got carried away with the conversation of how I had arrived at a collective community vision as opposed to the normal focus on evolving an individual…
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The British African Caribbean (BAC) Human Perspective
Central to CBACS’ perspective is that our core identity is that of the ‘Self’ (from a transpersonal perspective) distinguishable as Descendants of Enslaved Africans (DoEA). Namely, our ancestors were historically uprooted from their culture of origin and transported to the slave plantations of the Caribbean. This is the point at which our identity was changed from the ‘self’ to ‘black’, for keeping under the authority and control of ethnic groups wearing the mask of the ‘white’ racial identity. Born into the life experience of DoEAs in 1954 in Jamaica, I entered Britain in 1959 at the age of 5 to find my ‘self’ being renamed ‘black’. It soon became evident…
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Learning and Teaching Resources for Authentic Human Development
Authentic Human Development requires we develop the courage to face up to our everyday life challenges and temptations rather than avoiding or denying them. It means taking control of our own learning … across the life-course … and sharing our learning with other members of our family and community. The following resources may help us on our path to authentic human development: Fixed mindset versus growth mindset: which one are you? The secret to raising smart kids Levels of life coaching Authentic Human Development (AHD) requires what Asante refers to as ‘centricity’. The articles below provide some insight into this process which is critical to CBACS’ agenda of transformational learning…
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Towards Bicultural Competence: Beyond Black and White
Towards Bicultural Competence: Beyond Black and White (2007) is written by CBACS founder Dr Gloria Gordon. This book draws on first-person action research to provide a cultural analysis of the black life experience in a white-dominated society. The author uses her personal experience of working with the racial confusion with which she lived until she decided to engage with what it means to be black instead of avoiding and denying it. Her research takes her back in time to a shared history of slavery and colonisation; outwards to her experiences in white society; and inwards to explore the psychological costs of a buried and culturally taboo history. The outcome is…
Centre for British African Caribbean Studies
