E-Portfolio #1 Dr.Carr

Dr.Carr opened the semester with the lecture titled "Learning,Wisdom and the African World Experience:An Mbongi",expressing his knowledge of African history through different meanings, values, Egyptian hieroglyphics, knowledge of ancient Egyptian and the beginning of our intellectual genealogy to the present to connect with out ancestral wisdom. He spoke about the glorified European traditions that they're given credit for which truly date back to Africa. For instance Seshat and Djehuty created writing and mathematics but were taught in history class it were because of the findings of Greek and Roman philosophers. Ancient values and terms he taught us were ma'at which means truth,sedjem which means listen and sankofa which means go and get it. Dr. Carr emphasized the importance of knowing our ancestors history because without movement and memory we will not remember history and he showed us a great deal of knowledge within our own people that I would never get by going to sit in at an African American Studies class at Georgetown or NYU. I learned so much history not only about African Americans but our roots back in Africa and probably more than I have ever learned about our history in all my years in a public school history class. This presentation was spilling with knowledge and I'm not only happy that this presentation kicked off the semester but I'm also thinking about minoring in African-American Studies!