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 is celebrating its 24th year of service to our community.  He has written and self-published 30 books (and six study guides) addressing issues ranging from manhood to chess to the Middle Passage to relationships to education to security.  He did his graduate studies at the University of Chicago and is a former faculty at Chicago State University and Morehouse College.  For the last quarter century, he has continued this work through teaching courses, classes and lectures at Akoben Institute for adults and youth.  He has been married to Yaa Mawusi Baruti for 39 years and they have one daughter, Alaya, who lives with her husband and seven children.