CLASS OVERVIEW

It will focus on those three topics, expanding our understanding of Benin & Togo’s powerful iron production practices for export across the region in Precolonial times.

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World Changer/Teacher: Dr. John Aden

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Dr. John’s Class #47 Google Slide Presentation Deck: https://app.typeset.com/play/Y8KROG

CLASS OVERVIEW

This lesson covers the ironworking basis for the huge number of kingdoms that emerged in Benin and Togo in the Precolonial Period in West Africa.

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World Changer/Teacher: Dr. John Aden

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Dr. John’s Class #46 Google Slide Presentation Deck: https://app.typeset.com/play/NZR9XQ

CLASS OVERVIEW

In the 12th and final lecture on the History of Vodun, Dr. Aden traces the origins of the faith in the Dahomey Kingdom, its arrival in the Western hemisphere and its ongoing reinvention as a positive force for faith around the world today.

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World Changer/Teacher: Dr. John Aden

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Dr. John’s Class #45 Google Slide Presentation Deck: https://vimeo.com/1178311720

CLASS OVERVIEW

It explores Vodun’s importation into the United States, particularly New Orleans, in the wake of the Haitian Revolution, as well as into Cuba, Brazil and Puerto Rico. It explores the differences and similarities between Haitian Vodun and its expression distinctly in other countries.

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World Changer/Teacher: Dr. John Aden

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Dr. John’s Class #44 Google Slide Presentation Deck: https://app.typeset.com/play/4QQLOJ

CLASS OVERVIEW

In this session, Dr. Aden extended a Q & A discussion of Afrocentric scholars and Advancements as well as new discoveries that contradicted their work once the computer became more central to the work of historians, archaeologists and linguists. With particular focus on Ivan Van Sertima, Yosef ben-Jochannan, Dr. John Henrik Clark, and others.

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World Changer/Teacher: Dr. John Aden

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Dr. John’s Class #43 Google Slide Presentation Deck: https://app.typeset.com/play/8XZG9E

CLASS OVERVIEW

In this lecture we discuss the origins of processionals and masquerades in West and West Central Africa societies before the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Precolonial period. Then we explore the connection between saints and deities in Vodun.

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World Changer/Teacher: Dr. John Aden

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Dr. John’s Class #42 Google Slide Presentation Deck: https://app.typeset.com/play/9RGEMD