“Too often we experience colonization of scholarship, stolen legacies, his-torical banditry, and perpetuation of academic superiority” (Del Jones, (1990) Cultural Bandits, Volume 1.
The work of Many Faces In Teaching is based on scholarly research and investigation.
Dr Richard King
‘Afrikan origins of psychiatry’.
Professionalism
Dr Ivan Van Sertima
“Consciousness is more than knowledge: Consciousness is order that has to be reshaped by a different consciousness of self”
Professor Gus John
“DO RIGHT! FEAR NO-ONE!”
The Many Faces In Teaching team are professionals from the education sector.
Expertise
Dr Marimba Ani
“You are not an African because you’re born in Africa. You’re an African because Africa is born in you. It’s in your genes…your DNA your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that’s the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms…my my my…what a wonderful thing”
“The internal structure of the Great Pyramid of Khufu was symbolic of the all black underworld of Amenta, the all black doorway to the collective unconscious passage through Amenta, or the development of blackness which produced an expansion of consciousness (inner vision), spiritual consciousness, Illumination, unity with nature, an activated pineal gland and creative genius...” Richard King (1990) African Origin of Biological Psychiatry
Dr Francis Cress Wesling
Dedicated her life’s work to the upliftment and liberation of our mind. In her best selling book:The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, Dr Wesling a brilliant psychiatrist rejected conventional notions about the origin and perpetuation of racism. We must know ourselves through a corrected history which the current schooling system is not going to provide.
Issue # 8 traces the cultural continuities of Old Europe: Black in origin & traditions.
This is MFIT’s latest Issue# 7 and is part 4 of ancient Ireland and traces the cultural kinship with the Black Scandinavian world. This issue includes a special introduction on the Phoenicians in Britain and Nigeria by anthropologist, linguist and historian Dr Clyde Winters.
This is the launch of MFIT’S brand new Magazine- Missing Faces In Teaching. We hope that the front cover gives you some indication of the range of material that we will present in each bi-monthly issue. Now available to buy at Amazon.com& Amazon.co.uk(The printed book version includes ‘Special Bonus Material’ and is in full colour).
In this issue you will learn about the African origins of royal emblems such as the cross, sceptres/staff and orbs. We trace the first people of Ireland with art-facts and historical literature as evidence with over 60 images to support the findings.
Issue # 5
All rights reserved. No part of this Magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without written permission from the author, except for inclusion or brief quotations in a review. Copyright 2021 by Marie Charles and Bill Boyle. All Rights Reserved.
In the fifth Issue of our Magazine Professor Kaba Hiawatha Kamene (star of Hidden Colours), provides the Introduction on the Melanated Migrations of Europe. This Issue is part two of ancient Black Ireland with over 75 photographs & images to support the findings. https://open.spotify.com/show/2EWE8YD113B6szCuJ84QkB
Kindle version of MFIT’s Magazine
Contact MFIT via the website for more information.
Strategy
To empower children, parents and their communities.
To diversify the teaching profession.
To decolonize the school curriculum.
Example of People & Places Unit:
Teaching Unit:’People & Places’
“The discoveries of abundant prehistoric remains all over Europe, particularly France, these with one accord (sic) tended to show that European aborigines of the Stone Age were not Mongoloid like the Lapps,after all the exact opposite. In every detail they resembled the dolichocephalic Negroes of Africa” (William Z. Ripley: The Races of Europe, 1899).
Growth
‘When you really know who you are, you wouldn’t want to be anybody else’.
Professor Kaba Kamene [2019]
William Zapina Ripley
“Whatever heads have been measured, whether in the Aran Islands off the west of Ireland, the Hebrides and the Scottish Highlands, Wales and Cornwall, or the counties about London, the results all agree within a few units…here in the British Isles it is practically uniform from end to end” (p.305). “We know that the earliest type of man in Britain was as long headed as either the African Negro or the Eskimo” (p.306) The Races of Europe
Success
Contributing incrementally to the development of an equitable schooling system in which all children flourish. Child by child, teacher by teacher and class by class, as necessary.
“The Iberians of France and Spain, the Silures of Wales, the Ligures of Southern Gaul and Northern Italy, and the small dark Etruckans, (sic) are to be looked upon as ethnological islands isolated by successive invasions, pointing out that if we could go deep enough in the past time (sic) we should find that the whole of Europe was inhabited by a swarthy non-Aryan population” (Early Man in Britain and his place in the Tertiary Period, 1880, p.323).
Professor William Boyd Dawkins
The above examples are from the purple unit called People and Places and this is one of five units written, conceptualised and piloted under research fieldwork conditions. Below are the RUoCs (Reframed Units of Change):
Each of the units can be used as either ‘stand alone’ themes or as an integrated programme. They are highly visual, multimodal, interactive and evidence based materials, which support teachers and students in decolonizing the curriculum.
The focus of MFIT’sresearch and developmentactivity can be defined very simply:
Training teachers to have a wider, socio-cultural and historical understanding in the classroom.
The reframing and decolonizing of a Eurocentric curriculum.
The teaching of a new empowering paradigm of self to children and students in all settings-home, neighbourhood, school, college, workplace.
This beautiful Yoruba figure is a maternity figure from ancient Nigeria. The same hairstyle has been found on an ancient carved figurine found in Gloucestershire in the UK. Contact the team for more information. (African Art in the Cycle of Life, 1988, p.38)
Missing Faces In Teaching (MFIT) 