Afrikan-Centered Motherhood in The 21st Century

Yaa Mawusi Baruti is the co-founder and co-director of Akoben Institute, an independent, Afrikan centered, full-time and after-school, home schooling and tutorial program for middle and high school children (in Atlanta, GA).  Mama Yaa’s lecture is a great tool to use to properly prepare or raise an Afrikan child in the 21^st Century.  Her presentation is easy to understand but also straight to the point.  For instance, several points that were elucidated are as follows:  1) when you become a mother your main obligation is to your children, 2) your priority should not be to work, school, career or anything else but your child, 3) a mother needs to teach her child practical life skills and etiquette, 4) do not spoil your child because spoil means to make rotten and 5) instill a healthy fear in your child.  She makes it clear that raising an Afrikan child in the 21^st Century is no easy task.  Therefore, it must be taken very seriously.  Her message comes through loud and clear:  Our children are our future and it’s up to the mother to instill an Afrikan-centered etiquette within them to sustain the Afrikan race.  She said, “ Our children may not remember what we say but they will remember what we do.”