< 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…
