BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Marimba Ani has been involved in the Afrikan Liberation Movement since her work as a Field Organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi from l963 to l966. In l967, after having traveled in Afrika, she began formal study of the nature of Afrikan Civilization in the attempt to determine how the process of culture formation could be used to achieve self-determination for Afrikan people on the Continent and in the Diaspora. Because of this commitment she has become involved in the process of Afrikan-centered reconceptualization and the creation of a theoretical framework which will address the needs of Afrikan people to analyze phenomena from the perspective of their collective interests, values and vision.



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Marimba Ani is a visionary scholar of the greatest dimension. She is one who is gifted with keen insight and who had an opportunity to matriculate through the hallowed academies of European-American education. This gift combined with the spirit of an activist, nurtured by a giant, Fannie Lou Hamer, and a love of Afrikan Scholarship, nurtured by giant , Dr. John Henrik Clark has produced, Yurugu one of the true landmark keys to Afrikan liberation and by extension the liberation of peoples around the world who suffer under Global White Supremacy.

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