About

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti is co-founder and co-director of Akoben Institute, a full-time, independent, Afrikan centered home schooling program for middle and high schoolers which just celebrated its 21^st year of service to our community.  He has written and self-published 27 books (and three workbooks) addressing issues ranging from manhood to chess to the Middle Passage to relationships to education to security.  He is a former faculty at Chicago State University and Morehouse College.  For the last twenty years, he has continued this work through teaching courses, classes and lectures online at Akoben Institute for adults and youth.  He has been married to Yaa Mawusi Baruti for 35 years and they have one daughter, Alaya, who lives with her husband and six children.