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Greetings Phamily

Here is some information on my latest book, The Bakala of North America: The Living Suns of Vitality. If you order the print version of my book and type in the word KWANZAA in the "coupon code" field during your checkout, it will take $5 off of the price. Thursday Dec. 24, 2009 is the last day to take advantage of the savings. Information about the book is below.

Ancestrally,

Asar Imhotep
http://www.***************


http://www.***************/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/The_Bakala_of_No_4b083e858af91.jpg

To be or not to be may not be the most important question, but more so, “Who shall we be?” The holocaust of enslavement and its subsequent manifestations in the United States has rendered catastrophic disharmonies within the African-American personality. With the loss of ancestral family names, cultures and social systems, the formerly enslaved Africans have been like a ship adrift in a hostile sea; moving in whatever direction the tide of identity takes them.

Black people in America have had to ask some very fundamental questions about their identity, such as: What is the historic nature of names? How did we acquire our names? What is the importance of a proper name? What do our current names mean? Do our current names accurately reflect our collective history, gifts, vision and purpose?

The BAKALA of North America: The Living Suns of Vitality asserts that the historical names given to the formerly enslaved Africans in the United States (Black, Colored, Negro, African, African-American) do not adequately reflect the spirit of the people. Asar Imhotep offers for consideration a name that is rich in meaning and wide in its application which accurately reflects the history, gifts, vision and purpose of African-American people.

The BAKALA of North America takes us on a philosophical and linguistic journey that begins on the banks of the river Nile, to the forests of the Kongo; from the slave ports in Ghana, to the river of the mighty Mississippi. Asar Imhotep’s research, scholarship, synthesis and creative application of various disciplines convincingly supports the notion that the name BAKALA (the charcoal, enlightened, vitalistic, people of the sun) best reflects the personality of the African-American. The more fascinating aspect of this work is the notion that we've always been BAKALA, we just never realized it.

PURCHASE BOOK HERE.
READ SAMPLE CHAPTER HERE.

A summary and the table of contents are below.






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Table of Contents


Acknowledgements XI

Preface XIII

Introduction 1

Speak in your name, never in mine! 4

What’s in a name? 9

So why not just call ourselves African? 23

Why should we rename ourselves….AGAIN? 33

The criteria for a proper name adoption 39

An Audit of the African-American Personality 43

Recurring Themes 47

The Linguistic Factor 51

Fire symbolism and the family, leadership and creation 59

Bantu as a choice for name derivation 69

How to pronounce BAKALA 72

Addendum 75

The Living Suns of Vitality 87

The BAKALA of North America 96

The Science of BAKALA 101

The Challenge of Implementation 131

Who are the BAKALA? 132

What are the benefits of adopting the name BAKALA? 135

Conclusion 145

Appendix A: The Esteemed BAKALA 151

The BAKALA Grand Hall of the Deified Ancestors 151

Great BAKALA Scribes 153

Great BAKALA Word-Smiths 153

Great BAKALA Musical Artists 154

Great BAKALA Inventors & Scientists 155

Appendix B: Simultaneous Validity 157

Appendix C: The BAKALA Definition of the Person 167

Selected Bibliography: 179
 
"I think that you have made a strong case for the term Bakala.Now you
must make it happen, teach it, use it and build an institution around
it. As I have done with Afrocentricity you must do with Bakala, make it
the talk of the nation and the international black world. I am inspired
by your reflections. Great Work!"
Dr. Molefi K. Asante - Temple University


"As an African, a Black man, a Nationalist, a Pan-Africanist, a
Priest, and an academic-- I enjoyed this book on every level! Whether
you agree with Brother Asar or not, you have to respect his research,
scholarship, synthesis and creative application of African linguistics,
philosophy and metaphysics. Are we the Bakala? ...Maybe we are!"
- Dr. Lawson Bush, Los Angeles, CA
 
Do African Americans Need a New Identity? The Bakala of North America

Greetings Phamily

Here is some information on my latest book, The Bakala of North America: The Living Suns of Vitality. If you order the print version of my book and type in the word KWANZAA in the "coupon code" field during your checkout, it will take $5 off of the price. Thursday Dec. 24, 2009 is the last day to take advantage of the savings. Information about the book is below.

Ancestrally,

Asar Imhotep
http://www.***************


http://www.***************/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/The_Bakala_of_No_4b083e858af91.jpg

To be or not to be may not be the most important question, but more so, “Who shall we be?” The holocaust of enslavement and its subsequent manifestations in the United States has rendered catastrophic disharmonies within the African-American personality. With the loss of ancestral family names, cultures and social systems, the formerly enslaved Africans have been like a ship adrift in a hostile sea; moving in whatever direction the tide of identity takes them.

Black people in America have had to ask some very fundamental questions about their identity, such as: What is the historic nature of names? How did we acquire our names? What is the importance of a proper name? What do our current names mean? Do our current names accurately reflect our collective history, gifts, vision and purpose?

The BAKALA of North America: The Living Suns of Vitality asserts that the historical names given to the formerly enslaved Africans in the United States (Black, Colored, Negro, African, African-American) do not adequately reflect the spirit of the people. Asar Imhotep offers for consideration a name that is rich in meaning and wide in its application which accurately reflects the history, gifts, vision and purpose of African-American people.

The BAKALA of North America takes us on a philosophical and linguistic journey that begins on the banks of the river Nile, to the forests of the Kongo; from the slave ports in Ghana, to the river of the mighty Mississippi. Asar Imhotep’s research, scholarship, synthesis and creative application of various disciplines convincingly supports the notion that the name BAKALA (the charcoal, enlightened, vitalistic, people of the sun) best reflects the personality of the African-American. The more fascinating aspect of this work is the notion that we've always been BAKALA, we just never realized it.

PURCHASE BOOK HERE.
READ SAMPLE CHAPTER HERE.

A summary and the table of contents are below.






--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Table of Contents


Acknowledgements XI

Preface XIII

Introduction 1

Speak in your name, never in mine! 4

What’s in a name? 9

So why not just call ourselves African? 23

Why should we rename ourselves….AGAIN? 33

The criteria for a proper name adoption 39

An Audit of the African-American Personality 43

Recurring Themes 47

The Linguistic Factor 51

Fire symbolism and the family, leadership and creation 59

Bantu as a choice for name derivation 69

How to pronounce BAKALA 72

Addendum 75

The Living Suns of Vitality 87

The BAKALA of North America 96

The Science of BAKALA 101

The Challenge of Implementation 131

Who are the BAKALA? 132

What are the benefits of adopting the name BAKALA? 135

Conclusion 145

Appendix A: The Esteemed BAKALA 151

The BAKALA Grand Hall of the Deified Ancestors 151

Great BAKALA Scribes 153

Great BAKALA Word-Smiths 153

Great BAKALA Musical Artists 154

Great BAKALA Inventors & Scientists 155

Appendix B: Simultaneous Validity 157

Appendix C: The BAKALA Definition of the Person 167

Selected Bibliography: 179
 
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Greetings.

This is a reminder, in the spirit of the Kwanzaa celebrations, that if you type in the word KWANZAA in the "coupon code" field during checkout on my website, it will take off $4 off the price. Take advantage of the savings today! Offer Good until Thursday at midnight (Jan. 1, 2010).

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