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.
Resources by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II: |
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Facing the Rising Sun: Lessons for the Authentic Self
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Works citing Bringing the Light Into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage |
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Read narratives on the rites of passage process Works citing African Centered Rites of Passage and Education |
Academic STARS Retention Model: An Empirical Investigation
The effectiveness of African-centered Rites of Passage to transition first year college students.
More books on African-centered rites of passage can be found at
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Colorado State University’s Black/African American Cultural Center Rites of Passage program |
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