By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews We arrive now at the fourth and most forward-looking movement of this series — the place where I must bring Dr. Edwin Nichols’ philosophical legacy into direct conversation with the frameworks I have been…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of intellectual betrayal that happens when powerful ideas are left in the academy, circulating only among scholars who already agree with them, never touching the institutions that most need…
An Op-Ed in Response to “Black Wellness Edit: Why Black People Are Questioning Mental Health Credentials Online” By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology, Metaphysical Minister of Mental Liberation The conversation that erupted across Black Twitter…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of intellectual formation that happens when a Black man of extraordinary capacity is forced to navigate institutions that were not built with his humanity in mind — and comes…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Series Introduction: Reading the World Through African Eyes I want to begin this series with a question that I have carried with me across decades of scholarship, ministry, and clinical healing work: Why do…
< Previous: Part Three — Maat as Medicine: African Philosophy, Kemetic Consciousness, and the Healing of Black Identity By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Building Institutions as Acts of Resistance There is a particular kind of intellectual labor that never…
< Previous: Part Two — Reclaiming the Word: Obenga’s Linguistic Paleontology and the African Language Family By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews The Erasure at the Foundation of Western Philosophy There is a story that the Western world has been…
< Previous: Part One — A Mind Forged in the Congo: The Biographical Origins of Théophile Obenga’s African-Centered Vision By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Language as the Bones of Identity In the SHOCK Method, we spend considerable time examining…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews The World He Was Born Into To understand Théophile Obenga’s intellectual mission, we must first understand the world that formed him. He was born on February 2, 1936, in Brazzaville, in what was then…
By: Rev. Dr. Phlippe SHOCK Matthews Series Introduction There is a particular kind of intellectual courage required to stand in the corridors of Western academic power and say, plainly and without apology, that Africa is the originator of philosophy, that…
