01930nam a22002537a 4500 20230720102418.0 230720b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d AL English 23 808 BENP Joe Benton and others 127842 Project : Sankofa a rites of passage program philosophy theory and overview Columbia Our Community Organisation 1998 124 p. PB 21x14 cm. Project Sankofa: A Rites of Passage Program is about going back and reclaiming traditions of the past in order to establish new standards of normalcy. A paradigm shift is required, and it must begin in the minds of the youth who will be given new standards of excellence to model. Rites of Passage programs are designed to accomplish that objective. Such ideas, however, will appear strange to a people who have been conditioned to reject their past and now Live precariously in the present moment. Such ideas will be rejected by those lacking understanding of Afrikan culture. These fears must not stand in the way of the work which is being done to enhance the lives of current and future generations of Afrikan youth. We owe it to our ancestors to reclaim the valued traditions of the past, and in doing so we honor ourselves. We owe it to our descendants to light the path that they must walk and in doing so we honor our ancestors. The ancestors, ourselves, and our descendants all are part of the spiritual circle which is held together by the bonds of cultural continuity. Rites of Passage are the crucibles in which those bonds are forged and dispersed throughout the generations. Sankofa 127843 Project 127844 Philosophy 127845 Theory 127846 BENTON (Joe) 127847 JACKSON (Derrick) 127848 Gallman (Burnett) 127849 ddc DB 228015 228015 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2023-06-30 0 808 BENP D06069 2023-07-20 00:00:00 2023-07-20 DB Donated by V. T. Rajshekar