The mission of the Kamali Academy is to develop a self-determining (kujichagulia) community of Afrikan people equipped with self-love, self-awareness, and a commitment to the resolution of our collective problems.
The Kamali Academy is an Afrikan-centered, systematic home school serving elementary, middle, and high school aged students in New Orleans, Louisiana.
When we speak of “Afrikan-centered,” we are referring to a philosophy and practice based on the accumulated wisdom, values, principles, and culture of Afrikan people at home and abroad.
Through small class sizes and a committed faculty of educators, artists, and community members, Kamali aims to produce servant-leaders by cultivating a passion and capacity for life-long learning.
We understand that in order to build true community power, we must create and maintain independent institutions centered on our collective best interests. To these ends, the Kamali Academy is dedicated to the greater goal of nationbuilding.*
“We expect nothing but the best, from you and those in the many priesthoods your academy hones. The time has come for the new vanguard and, equally important, the time has come for the development and institutionalization of those sacred spaces of character that will guide them along their Afrikan Way. We know that The Kamali Academy began in the context of such a vision and will continue to progressively, aggressively and uncompromisingly pursue this ideal so necessary to the achievement of the empowerment, liberation and sovereignty of Afrikan people. Ase.” -Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Contact us today for more information: kamaliacademy@gmail.com
*”Nationbuilding is the conscious and focused application of our people’s collective resources, energies, and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that we identify as ours. It involves the development of behaviors, values, language, institutions, and physical structures that elucidate our history and culture, concretize and protect the present, and insure the future identity and independence of the nation. Nationbuilding is the deliberate, keenly directed and focused, and energetic projection of national culture, and the collective identity.”- Mzee Kwame Agyei Akoto (Excerpt taken from “Nationbuilding: Theory & Practice in Afrikan Centered Education”)
Aug 18, 2010 @ 01:30:07
What math curriculum are you guys using? I recommend Singapore Math (for all grades) and The Art of Problem Solving series (http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/) (for the older ones). I am concerned at the number of Black children are getting left behind in Math and Science. A poor Math and Science curriculum will effectively shut them out from entering these fields in college. I know, I was one of them. I wish I had a better math background. Anyways, you can also try Miquon math for the younger grades as well
The Algebra Project by civil rights leader Robert Moses (http://www.algebra.org/) could probably help as well.
Sep 02, 2010 @ 21:54:43
luv the idea, hope you stay around til my Sun is old enough 4 school
1Luv RBG
Nov 09, 2010 @ 18:36:28
We keep getting phone calls for your academy. If you could supply me with your phone number, I could refer the caller to you instead of saying I don’t know. Mahalo
Dec 01, 2010 @ 04:57:04
. I want to do this SO VERY BADLY but I don’t think my husband will be down. You’re right — why do we speak so ill of the system and yet send our daughter back to it?
We half-way homeschool and really we considered charter school an experiment. My daughter is the only one of age; my sons are at home by me.
BECAUSE of being homeschooled, my daughter is waaaay ahead of her lil 1st grade class. She got the leadership award (WHY? because she helps the teacher — one day I came in to visit and she was sitting there with a group of 4 boys, two black two latino, and was TEACHING them. I was shocked) for her class, The “high” honor roll ( A honor roll; they don’t call it A and B anymore so people don’t feel bad?? We believe it promotes mediocrity), the academic excellence award, and the Dean’s Award,which is something only one child in the entire primary school can get. We were proud but we know why she got all that. It has NOTHING to do with the school.
I feel school stifles her academically. I feel she’s almost in a rut and while she’s phenomenal, *I*, her mommy, knows she needs more stimulation.
My husband values her being socialized. So does everyone else in my family which is why I have minimal agreement from anyone.
She’s STILL barely socialized. She’s “weird”, because I am “weird, lol and so she’s very different than her classmates. She’s very quiet, she’s obedient. Her classmates never pick her for anything. I see the hurt in her eyes but she doesn’t cry about it because she’s very strong. THEN, we’re Hebrew (not Hebrew Israelite and not Black Jews) so… it’s just all very lonely for her I’m sure.
I WANT TO DO THIS. I want to do what you’re doing. I’m educated enough to do it, I’m sure I can pull it off…
I’m praying on it. I’m trying to see how I will approach my husband with it. We’ll never be happy with any school she’s in. They will always lack.