Name Jacob Carruthers Role Academic | ||
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Died January 4, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, United States Books Essays in ancient Egyptian, Divine Speech, Intellectual Warfare | ||
Education Texas Southern University Similar Maulana Karenga, Molefi Kete Asante, Bunchy Carter | ||
Mzee jedi shemsu jehewty aka dr jacob carruthers the deep well of afrikan culture spirituality
Baba Mzee Jedi Shemsu Jehewty also known as Jacob Hudson Carruthers, Jr. (February 15, 1930 in Dallas, Texas – January 4, 2004 in Chicago) is an Afrikan Ancestor and Deep Thinker who is noted for being an African-centered scholar, researcher, historian, educator and a key figure in the movement to establish Kush and Kemet to the center of the restoration of Afrikan culture.
Contents
- Mzee jedi shemsu jehewty aka dr jacob carruthers the deep well of afrikan culture spirituality
- The intellectual warfare dr jacob carruthers
- Visiting Baba Cheikh Anta Diop
- The Kemetic Institute and ASCAC
- References
The intellectual warfare dr jacob carruthers
Visiting Baba Cheikh Anta Diop
In 1975, one year after Baba Cheikh Anta Diop, the famous Afrikan scholar-scientist and his colleague and partner Baba Théophile Obenga successfully defended the Afrikan origin of ancient Kemet at the UNESCO symposium in Cairo, Baba Jacob Carruthers visited Baba Diop in Senegal. Of this visit Mama Ife Carruthers writes:
Diop impressed upon Dr. Carruthers the importance of the study of ancient Egypt and more importantly the need to center that study around the command of the Egyptian languages, commonly called hieroglyphics.
Returning from this historic meeting Baba Carruthers set about helping to establish the organisational base to centralise Kush and Kemet as the Classical Afrikan civilisations upon which liberated Afrikan institutions will rest. An exemplary scholar, Baba Carruthers heeded the advice of Baba Diop and immediately threw himself towards the task of learning the ancient language of Kemet: Mdw Ntr so as to have a direct access to the ancient sources, while urging others to do like wise as a matter of urgency. This led to the establishment of several key Afrikan-centered study group movements.
The Kemetic Institute and ASCAC
With a solid grounding in the understanding of the cultural unity of Afrika and a command in the classical Afrikan language, Baba Carruthers was instrumental, among team of Afrikan-centered scholars, in creating an Afrikan-centered context for the systematic studying of Afrikan history with the objective of raising Afrikan insititutions from the rescued knowledge.
In 1978 Baba Carruthers and the African-centered research team composed of Baba A. Josef Ben Levi, Baba Anderson Thompson and Baba Conrad Worrill founded the Kemetic Institute.This organization was born to address the need for serious restoration-driven search by Afrikans on the Classical Afrikan civilizations of Kush and Kemet. Baba Carruthers, as the founding director of the Institute, consistently clarified that the institution was to serve as the springboard for Afrikan-centered institution building by proving the knowledge-base from which other institutions could be nourished.
In February 1984, Baba Carruthers along with Baba John Henrik Clark, Baba Asa Grant Hilliard, Baba Leonard Jeffries, Baba Yosef Ben-Jochannan and Baba Maulana Karenga founded the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) at the First Annual Ancient Egyptian Studies Conference in Los Angeles, California, of which Baba Carruthers was elected the first president.