COMING SOON

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COMING SOON

$34.99

The following description is based on a 4-week course. However, this rate is for one 90-minute class that will highlight the course’s key points. During the four-week experience, participants are guaranteed to be introduced to all of the content outlined below and will have access to additional resources and interactive activities.

If you would like to take the 4-week course please click the CLASS PACK SPECIAL and select this course.

1.    Students will be immersed in the teachings of Afrikan philosophers and spiritual systems that have developed good character for thousands of years. We will familiarize ourselves with the work of Ankhsheshonqi who wrote, “It is in the development of character that instruction succeeds.” We will also explore the Yoruba Empire and the spiritual teachings of Odu Ifa (Yoruba Ethical Teachings) Ogbe Tura 39:1, “If we have money and do not have character the money belongs to someone else. Character, iwa, is what we are looking for, character. “

2.    Students will be presented with codes of good character. We will examine Afrikan legends, modern and old and answer questions like: How does one become legendary? What must one do to exemplify good character? What happens when you don’t have good character? Can lying make you go crazy and make it so you can’t even trust yourself?

3.    Students will examine how stories like Aesop’s fables, Anansi, and Brer Rabbit taught us to have good character with each other, but to use deception with outsiders to protect our community.

4.    Students will learn how Afrikan people held each other accountable in ancient times. Students will also explore: What is honor and why is it so important? And, what is the significance of healthy bonding to a people?

5.    Students will learn how Europeans created a society that rewards bad character to create disunity, disharmony, and disintegration. We will look at the music industry as a primary example.

6.    Students will practice character building by playing games that develop group dependency. 

7.    Students will come up with ideas on how they can improve their families and communities by demonstrating acts of good character.


*** Participants are expected to participate in all activities and change their behavior based on what they learn in this series. Become a better family member, team player and organizer for Afrikan people.


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“It’s imperative that our children learn from people who resemble their aesthetic, and know our history and culture. T’Shango Mbilishaka has spent over a decade studying and implementing African centered pedagogy. A brilliant educator, dedicated to uplifting our community through history and engaging lessons, I had the pleasure of working with T’Shango on several educational programs. I have been in awe many years by his integrity, empathy, tenacity, passion, and thoughtfulness. These traits in conjunction with his ability of curating education programs to engage the family unit to shape nuanced solutions place him in a class of his own. A natural leader, social activist and artist, T’Shango believes that the best way to quickly foment change is by working at the grassroots level to impact the lives of those most in need of assistance through African centered education.”

-Falani Afrika

“Mwalimu T’Shango Mbilishaka is a rare breed among African Centered scholars and educators. His thoughts and actions are extensions of his love for our people and his strategies incorporate the wisdom of many ancestors and living giants including Barbara Sizemore, Amos Wilson, Asa Hilliard, Hannibal Afrik, Agyei Akoto and Marimba Ani to name a few. His work for the past decades has been focused on the total upliftment of the African family through his work at various educational institutions. He continues to be on a tireless search to focus our families’ attention on all of the elements of liberation of the mind, body and the spirit of our people. The fruits of his work have been made manifest through an enlightened variety of strategies to educate, to motivate and to inform our parents and our children simultaneously. Through the observation of the youth that he has touched and through testimonials of the parents of his students, it has been verified that his strategies and techniques continue to be fabulously transformative. His ongoing research interests are inclusive of Afrikan and oppressed people’s freedom struggles, family physical wellness and preparations in anticipation of difficult times.”

-Baba Jawara Hunter, Community Elder and Organizer

“Baba T’Shango Mbilishaka is a master teacher whose enthusiasm and commitment to the education and development of African children is total and complete. Baba T’Shango has learned at the feet of some of the greats- Hilliard, Akoto, Ani and Kambon, just to name a few. Now he is offering what he’s learned from our esteemed scholars and what he has learned from almost two decades as a classroom teacher, as his personal offering to the preparation of the next generations of African educators and scholars.”

Seba Sékou Oláyínká -Jegna of Ẹgbé̩ Ijọba


“T’SHANGO IS THE EDUCATOR THAT THE PAN AFRICAN WORLD DESERVES AND NEEDS!

With the spread of misinformation, political pandering and vapid symbolism, how and where can we show our children a clear path of understanding to their true relationship to culture and the global politic? Our children, our families and our people need clarity, integrity and a focused commitment to improving our condition. With the correct political education and an understanding in the value of our culture and history, we can take the right action to serve our interests rather than work against our interests. That is the selfish love I have seen in the courageous work from educator, writer, speaker and master teacher, T’Shango Mbilishaka. The forward, visionary thinking that the sons and daughters of Africa need is what I’ve witnessed in his classroom, in is office during his office hours, in his output and results of his students. As a colleague, I have seen T’Shango sit with students at his feet yearning for political education to empower themselves. I have seen him share African proverbs, anecdotes from his journey and quote the teachings of Malcolm X, Fanny Lou Hamer, Marcus Garvey, and Ella Baker. I do not know a more well-read scholar on Black (African Diasporan) culture, history, and politics. As a leading scholar and general in the journey of independence for the African Diaspora, I see T’Shango’s work on par with the great Asa Hilliard, Runoko Rashidi, Booker T. Coleman, and the legendary historian John Henrik Clarke. He is carrying the torch of these scholars and doing the work to connect the children of the diaspora with the continent of Africa. Decolonizing one’s mind is a process that needs the guidance of an informed and compassionate leader. Educator T’Shango Mbilishaka is that guide that the African world needs and deserves.”

-Edward Hegerman, Teacher