Conference Components and Objectives

Workshops:  Thematic seminars featuring presentations by panels of accomplished community members with generous opportunity for dialogue and networking.  The workshops are organized into standard tracks:

  • ReAfrikanization (Track A),
  • Family and Institutional Development (Track B),
  • Nationbuilding (Track C)
  • Youth Track (13-17) and
  • Children’s Tracks (4-12)

Plenary Sessions: There shall be provided occasions where individuals who have distinguished themselves in key areas of the movement will share their perspectives on the status of the race in some specific area, and on the work of the conference.

Focus Group Sessions: Concurrent seminars on critical issues of concern in the Afrikan world that impact on efforts in community and family development.  Seminars are conducted by instructors and advanced wanafunzi of Ankͻbea ALTR.

Ankͻbea Convocation: The Rite of Passage Graduation Ceremony are a highlight of the conference.  During this annual program those adolescents involved in Ankͻbea’s intense educational program preparing them for adulthood mark the conclusion of this foundational phase with the support and jubilation of family and friends.

Closing Ceremony:  A traditional akͻm will officially mark both the high point of consummation and commitment and the conclusion of the conference.  The several traditional Afrikan spiritual institutions and organizations represented will be asked to lend their assistance in making the ceremony a powerful reaffirmation of our spiritual linkage with each other, the Afrikan world and the entire Afrikan family including the ancestors and the unborn.

Family, personal and institutional development are the major underlying themes of every part of the conference.

(A)    Facilitation of the sharing of expertise in Afrikan-centered institutional development, including organizational structure, management, community mobilization, marketing, motivation and accountability.

(B)    Examination of several subject areas that are fundamental to effective institutional development (including spirituality, economics, lifestyle, mate selection, family development, and goals, values and priorities for young adults), and the elaboration of major concepts that should inform institution-building.

(C)    Facilitation of networking and collaborative efforts among similarly engaged nationalist/pan Afrikanist institutions and organizations regarding long-range planning and priorities.

(D)    Establishment or designation of existing institutions as focal points for the ongoing monitoring of the status and progress of the continuing effort to effect the goals of the conference.  Those institutions, families and individuals would include but not be limited to the areas of spirituality, education, economics, the Afrikan family, and international development.

(E)    Establishment or assignment of a publication to serve as the vehicle for the continuing expression of the sentiments and views of the conference.

(F)    Establishment of a national panel of representatives of established institutions and prominent and productive individuals to evaluate trends, developments, and issues of concern to Afrikans on an ongoing basis;  and the research and development of policies or positions representative of the national Afrikan-centered community.

(G)    Provision of an opportunity to facilitate and promote the efficiency and expansion of existing institutions including families and communities and the creation of new ones, and the provision of an opportunity to identify and recruit committed individuals for work with those institutions.  All workshops and presentations will reflect the themes of nationbuilding, spirituality, moral behavior, and pan Afrikanist consciousness.

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