Faith N. Odigbo
Freshman Seminar
September 5th, 2010
Learning Wisdom and The African World
Today’s generation is disconnected with their African roots so with this lecture and class we will try to dig deeper and try to connect with our ancestors. During the discussion, we talked about the principles of wisdom, which entails, learning, the art and science including the mathematics, which is the core of African wisdom. Many people believe that Africans did not contribute anything to the Western World when in reality African created math, astronomy, science and writing yet they get no credit as a nation for their contribution. Though, Africa contributed greatly to the Western World it really starts with the Egyptians since they have origin for Africa and it is the best according to Dr. Carver and has been the foundation for everything from culture to literature everyone has copied the Egyptians since then. Egyptians and Africans are interconnected with one another. During the class lecture we discussed what learning really is, which is when boiled down learning is collective, experiential, and incremental and is measured by rites of passages, which is witnessed by the community as a whole and determines one’s content of knowledge and expertise. The key points to learning what success is really is that is defined by traditional African Intellectuals which are excellent reading, writing, counting, measuring, excellent service and reflecting on one’s self in order to contribute. The overall class discussion was learning about African wisdom and how to apply it to our generation so that we never lose our roots.
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