When given an assignment to seek economic solutions by Dr. William Sheftal, then, Director of The Business Department at Morehouse College, during my research, I discovered many problems given by academia, but rarely were there solutions given.

I then asked myself, “despite all the obstacles, i.e. slavery, Jim crow, racism, poverty, etc), how did we get this far?” What kind of organizations were we able to create? Are these organizations functioning today?

These questions and others led me to research more specifically the African-American struggle towards freedom and equality and to conclude the solution was not a “new solution” but rather keeping an older solutions alive – by connecting it to the next generations. The main problem I discovered was the divide between the generations or rather the lack of knowledge our generations have of our past developments.

This past includes not just Black history here in the United States, told through the eyes of a system designed to exploit African labor, but rather told through the eyes of survivors, leaders, movements to overcome these atrocities. Despite these injustices, how and what did we do to survive, resist and develop?

With these questions in mind, I looked closer to past African empires, I came across this book: The Journey of The Songhai People by Robinson, Battle and Robinson. “We strongly believe that along with our quest to deprogram the entire society as a solution to the problem we must project the truth and benefits of Black people’s kinship ties. We believe that the Lunda people were totally correct.”

The Destruction of The Black Civilization, written by Chancellor Williams, ” No people in African history used the concept of kinship ties more effectively then the Lunda in the remarkable expansion of their empire.”

David N. Roach
Founder

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