THE CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION VOLUME I

Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon

This presentation, based on my forthcoming book of the same name, challenges the assumption that sḫm km ‘Black Power’ “Pan-Afrikanism” is a modern phenomenon by tracing its classical roots in Kmt ‘The Black Nation/Nation of the Blacks’. Through historical-linguistic and comparative textual analysis, I examine primary inscriptions by Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ that evidence self-identification and the operationalization of Black identity millennia ago. I develop the Dikènga Theory of Self-Identification as Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ as my theoretical framework to model the cyclical nature of sḫm km ‘Black Power’ in the restoration of mꜣꜥt ‘Maat’. The study offers a Blackprint for contemporary Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ to reclaim sḫm km ‘Black Power’ to make Kmt ‘The Black Nation/Nation of the Blacks’ Black again.

Short Bio:

“Ɔbenfo” Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon, Nana Kwame Pɛbi Datɛ I, is a multi-award-winning scholebrity, Associate Professor at the University of Ghana, and the architect of Abibitumi. He earned his PhD in Linguistics (UG, 2012), winning the Vice-Chancellor’s award for Best PhD Thesis in the Humanities, and he has received the 2016 and 2024 Provost’s Publications Awards as well as the Nana Marcus Mosiah Garvey Foundation award (2019). In 2025, he received the Kwame Nkrumah Award for Pan-African Leadership from the Pan-African Leadership Institute (PALI). A former Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Journal of Linguistics (2016–2023) and Secretary of the African Studies Association of Africa (2015–2020), he leads RepatriateToGhana.com’s D.O.O.R. Initiative, endorsed by the Office of the President, helping Black people repatriate and obtain Ghanaian citizenship since 2016.

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