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Amiri Mahnzili, Ph.D.

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“Your teachers are all around you. All that you perceive, all that you experience, all that is given to you or taken from you, all that you love or hate, need or fear, will teach you- if you will learn. God is your first teacher. Subtle, demanding. Learn or die.”
(Earthseed: The Books of the Living)
-Octavia E. Butler

Professor of Pan-Afrikan Studies

Amiri Mahnzili, Ph.D. is an author and theorist whose work and research centers on a Pan-Afrikan theoretical approach to pedagogy. Obtaining his PhD from Claremont Graduate University in Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Africana Studies, Dr. Mahnzili’s dissertation Reshaping Black Brilliance: Toward the Development and Implementation of a Pan-Afrikan Pedagogy explores a multitude of themes concerning the lived experiences of the Afrikan Diaspora including but not limited to: Afrofuturism, Ante-Modernity, Anti-Colonial Movements, and pre-colonial Afrikan epistemology. Dr. Mahnzili also conducts Rites-of-Passage manhood training programs for young men throughout Southern California, which proved an instrumental resource for his theorizations for this text. Dr. Mahnzili’s love and passion for Afrikan/Black people is exuded in his works and theorizations, his desire for Afrikan people to think beyond the confines and limitations of oppression and anti-Blackness in order to imagine a world and existence beyond these restricting ideations of the Black experience. Dr. Mahnzili is a loving father to his two children, Aynalem and Adonai, and a committed husband to his wife, Elilta.

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“Plantation scholarship/research has run its course. Scholarship/(re)search that not only moves beyond the plantation but dismantles the plantation mentality is long overdue, which is why reimagining success is such a profound component of the Sankofa (Re)search Model. Success can no longer equate to surviving the plantation. Success must be measured by how one disrupts the functioning of the plantation or chooses death—specifically, death in the African sense, which is (re)birth—rather than acquiescing to the demands of plantation society.”

Amiri Mahnzili, Ph.D.

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