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Alkebulam is the original name of the continent now known as Africa a name given to the continent by the Romens. Historian and scholar Dr. Cheikh Anta diop writes that the name Alkebulan was used by the Moors, Nubians and Ethiopians. The meaning of Alkebulan is Mother of Mankind or Garden of Eden.
Other pre-colonial definitions of Alkebulan was the Land of the Blacks. There is currently a movement of to develop a United States of Africa and reclaiming the name of Alkebulan to unite the continent. This Pan-African concept was championed by Kwame Nkrumah who led Ghana to independence from British rule and became the independent countries first President.
Kwame Nkrumah lived and studied in Harlem in his younger years and was greatly influenced by W.E.B. Du Bois a civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist. W His Royal Majesty Jinapor II led a delegation to Harlem during HARLEM WEEK to announce a Cultural, Educational and Business partnership between Northen Ghana and Harlem.
Jinapor II talked about how Harlem and the Pan-African movement was a major factor in Nkrumah’s desire to create the United States of Africa. Alkebulan is a name you will be hearing more about as the Pan-African movement is again connecting Harlem and Ghana
My good friend former Harlem Globetrotter Bobby {Zorrow} Hunter now has Alkebulan on his tee-shirts that he gives to young people who attend his basketball clinics throughout the United States. The United States of Africa will be one of the subjects discussed during the Cultural Oneness Festival in Northern Ghana December 7th to the 14th
Martin Glin a successful businessman and farmer from Alabama is a co-founder of the annual Cultural Oneness Festival he is also a chief and has relocated to Northern Ghana. Chief Martin has been given land and is developing a housing development project called Ancestorial Homes and Recreational Park.
This project will be designed to attract members of the African diaspora who would be interested in investing and owning homes in Northern Ghana this is a new version of Pan-Africanism.
Chief Martin was also given farmland to development. He is developing a sustainable agriculture project called Alkebulan Farms Limited.
At the Harlem Cultural Tourism Summit during HARLEM WEEK His Royal Majesty Jinapor II gave me the title of Chief like Martin I will look for ways to encourage African and Caribbean Americans to return and invest in Alkebulan.
I believe it is time to be a part of the awakening of the sleeping giant the African Diaspora. Africans throughout the world are starting to feel the spirit of Alkebulan. The spirit of Kwame Nkrumah’s famous words “I am not African because I was born in Africa, I am African because Africa was born in me.
