Africentric Education, It's About All of US

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

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Simone Drake, Ph.D.

Professor , The Ohio State University

Chair of the Department of African American, The Ohio State University

African Studies, The Ohio State University

Todd Walker, Ph.D.

Director, Columbus Africentric Early College

Robyn Lyons-Robinson, Ph.D.

Chair of the English Department, Columbus State Community College

Marshall Shorts

Creative-N-Chief, Artfluential

Creative Director, Ohio Organizing Collaborative

Organized Africentric education has been an emerging discipline since the 1960s. Columbus City Schools made it a focus in the late 1990s. Now that it has a foothold in communities why is Africentric education so often considered the exclusive domain of the African American community and not a part of mainstream education?

How has the discipline emerged and why is it important for other areas of study and the larger community? What role do public school systems have in supporting Africentric education, especially at an early age? How have programs like the burgeoning connection between Columbus Afrocentric Early College and Columbus State Community College worked to strengthen on-going education? How does study within Africa and the African Diaspora contribute to these goals?