By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews ‹ Previous: Part Three: Building the Temple — Wo’se Sacramento and the Institutional Legacy of Consciousness Work Introduction: The Ancestor Does Not Retire In the Kemetic understanding of death that Minister Alkebulan taught throughout…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews ‹ Previous: Part Two: Know Thyself — The Intellectual and Spiritual Architecture of Alkebulan’s Teaching Introduction: From Philosophy to Practice Ideas do not heal in the abstract. They heal when they are translated into…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews ‹ Previous: Part One: A Consciousness Forged in Oakland — The Biographical Formation of Minister Imhotep Alkebulan Introduction: The Architecture of a Liberating Consciousness A healer cannot work with tools they have not mastered.…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Introduction: When the Wound Becomes a Calling Frantz Fanon opened Black Skin, White Masks with a recognition that has never lost its force: the colonized subject inherits a world not of their making, a…
A Four-Part Intellectual Ancestors Series By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of wound that colonialism inflicts upon African people — a wound that is not merely physical or economic, but ontological. It is an erasure…
< 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…
