The CACRoP is a growing community of practitioners, facilitators, scholars,  parents, and activist committed to the advocation, study, development, and practice of an African-centered rites of passage process.  The coalition is open to anyone who advocates for African-centered rites of passage as the fundamental process by which an authentic African sense of self is developed.
Ten Basic Assumptions of African Centered Rites of Passage (adopted in part from Dr. Anthony Mensah): The Creator does not create for failure. All humans are one with the Cosmos (the Creator and creation). Every person has the capacity to succeed. We are born with a driving intent to express the capacity to succeed. When the intent of the Creator is not met with appropriate content, a person’s potential for success is ruined. Inappropriate content brings reaction, and not intellectual growth, and the child’s ability to interact (use his or her intelligence) falls increasingly behind.  Thus, the further one’s intelligence falls behind, the more energy must go into compensation. With the infusion of inappropriate content, the young person’s intelligence is still out there in the previous passage, trying to make functional [sense] the intent of the Creator. He who does not cultivate his field will die of hunger. Rites of Passage in the child’s education provides a meaningful response to the intent.  The success of the Creator’s plan hinges directly on the person (infant, child, adolescent, or adult) being provided with content proper for the intent of that person. All persons who experience this type of education will benefit from it.		RECOMMENDED WEB SITES: Submit Article for New Book - African-Centered Rites of Passage: In Theory and Practice Afrikan-centered Rites of Passage: Feat. Wade Nobles, Paul Hill, Jr. and Lathardus Goggins   ORIGIN 7 Steps to Raising Exceptional African American Boys Rites of Passage Project URGENT. Inc. Malika Kambe Umfazi (MKU) Sorority, Inc. MKU The Frator Heru Institute Lane Community College Rites of Passage Summer Academies Black Male Development Symposium The Bridge Builders Girl Stories: Educational Activities A Good Black Man Pan-African Studies Community Education Program Servant Warrior Leadership Rites of Passage   The Nabrit Family Adventure Rites of Passage Youth Empowerment Foundation The National Rites of Passage Institute UUNIK Academy Rites of Passage (resources links compiled by Drexel Univ. graduate student) NAACP Vancouver Branch - African American Rites of Passage Summer Academy Rites of Passage in America Other Research Links: The influence of African centered rites of passage on racial identity and psycho-social competency of African-American adolescent females Changing Narratives, Changing Destiny: Myth, Ritual and Afrocentric Identity Construction at the National Rites of Passage Institute Books on or related to the African-Centered rites of passage process. Rites of passage: Using ritual to reclaim young people in trouble with the law Unyago: An African-American Initiation into Adulthood Philadelphia, 1991 QUICK SEARCH AFRICAN-CENTERED RITES OF PASSAGE
Join the CACRoP on acebook. Coalition for African Centered Rites of Passage on facebook ___________________________ Featured Sites Rites of Passage Project Saha Bruce Youthwork ORIGIN Resources by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II: African Centered Rites of Passage: 101 Akan Day Names Presentations and handouts "I knew I was a man when ..." Effective Interactions with African-American Males   Bibliography Read an excerpt   Bibliography Read narratives on the rites of passage process
Baobab Virtual Reference Desk BOOKS ON RITES OF PASSAGE             [Click here] for more books on the African-centered thought and philosophy.	(click the "google" for more) African Centered Rites of Passage Search through journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly literature Rites of Passage Project Description Course Syllabus: African Religions - Week 6. The Life Cycle and Rites of Passage: Birth, Puberty and Marriage Harvesting New Generations: Africentric Rites of Passage by Paul Hill, Jr. Use of Rites of Passage Programs to Foster Resilience in African American Students Training African American Parents for Success African Centered Curriculum and Teacher Efficacy: Contributors to African American Student Achievement Enhancing the Cultural Identity of Early Adolescent Male African Americans A Participant Observation Case Study Using Van Gennep's Rites of Passage Theory at a "Summer Transitional Program" Initiations Rituals Rites of Passage for Youth, Related Cultural Empowerment Programs African American Celebrations in the Southeast

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