Ọbádélé Kambon
Biographic Data
| ID | 669349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ọbádélé Kambon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ọbádélé |
| FAMILY NAME | Kambon |
| SIGNATURE | KAMBON Ọ |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8513-6622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mothering and Re-positioning Africa
Over many years, director and producer Haile Gerima, a man with profound interest in promoting Afrikan=Black histories and social realities through film, has received global recognition for his ‘Auteuristic’ and Afrikan=Black-Centred filmmaking style. One of his films Teza (2008) has received significant recognition and won several awards, yet it remains underexplored in scholarly discourse. We discuss this film using textual analysis and a histo…
Cardinal numerals in Akan
This paper presents a Construction Morphology account of complex cardinal numeral formation in Akan (Kwa, Niger-Congo). Through a detailed description of the Akan numeral system, which is decimal, we identify various ranges of cardinal numerals and show that they share structures with other constructions in the language because they are either compounds or coordinate constructions. We show that, consistent with crosslinguistic patterns, the two a…
Years? Ancestors Disappear! Historical Misorientation and Disorientation in the Year of Return and the 400 Years Narrative
Mꜣꜥt 'Maat', Death and the Afterlife
This study sets out to demonstrate how in classical and traditional Afrikan thought one's afterlife on physical and spiritual planes is thought of as being commensurate with one's adherence to Mꜣꜥt 'Maat' in terms of lived practice rather than simply as an abstract ideal. As such, we will interrogate textual examples from classical Kmt 'The Black Nation/Land of the Blacks' and attested lived examples from contemporary Afrika among the Kasena-Nank…
Combating cultural imperialism and cultural misorientation to preserve Afrikan intangible cultural heritage
This study aims to address combating cultural imperialism and cultural misorientation to preserve Afrikan=Black intangible cultural heritage noting that the priority must be on indigenous Afrikan=Black people to push our own agenda. The study takes the 2019 UNESCO-ICM Open School as a case study in terms of substantive efforts (or lack thereof) to combat cultural imperialism and cultural misorientation. The study addresses matters of terminology,…
Maat vs. The statue of Égalité
In this paper, we endeavor to restore Mꜣꜥt ‘Maat’ as truth to her rightful place by challenging erroneous and demonstrably incorrect notions as they appear in Ataa Ayi Kwei Armah’s Wat Nt Shemsw: The Way of Companions. By cross-referencing Ataa Armah’s vague allusions to “ancient Egyptian” mythology with actual textual documentation from Kmt ‘Black Nation/Land of Blacks’ (so-called “ancient Egypt”), we will interrogate the assertions made about t…
Fiction vs. Evidence
At the 2018 Outstanding African Thinkers Conference on Nna Chinweizu, attendees – the first author included – took a pledge that “In all branches of our lives, we must be capable of criticizing and of accepting criticism. But criticism, proof of the willingness of others to help us or of our willingness to help others, must be complemented by self-criticism – proof of our own willingness to help ourselves to improve our thoughts and our actions. …
Maat and the rebirth of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’
In this paper we examine Ɔbenfo Mario H. Beatty’s chapter, ‘Maat the Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept’ in terms of its articulation of MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’. This examination sets out to delineate how a return to the principles inherent in MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’ can serve to bring about the Wḥm Mswt ‘Rebirth/Renaissance’ of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’ and Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ economically and politically. This research is significant in that it poin…
What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us About the State of Pan-Afrikanism
Names are important to Afrikan=Black people of the continent and diaspora as, traditionally, one’s name is seen as playing a crucial role in the fulfillment (or lack thereof) of one’s life purpose. However, due to enslavement and neo-enslavement in the diaspora as well as colonialism and neo-colonialism on the continent, many Afrikan=Black people now give their children the names of their enslavers or colonial enemies. In this article, we utilize…
Akan noun–verb nominal compounds
A case for revisiting definitions of serial verb constructions
In this study, we undertook an experiment in which native speakers of Akan were given serial verbs both with and without oblique non-verbal elements (such as relator nouns, direct objects, postpositions, etc.) and asked them to construct Serial Verb Construction Nominals (SVCNs) from them. We found that, by and large, when not given said non-verbal elements, speakers were not able to construct nominal forms. In another task, we gave speakers nomi…
Maat and the rebirth of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’
In this paper we examine Ɔbenfo Mario H. Beatty’s chapter, ‘Maat the Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept’ in terms of its articulation of MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’. This examination sets out to delineate how a return to the principles inherent in MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’ can serve to bring about the Wḥm Mswt ‘Rebirth/Renaissance’ of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’ and Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ economically and politically. This research is significant in that it poin…
A case for revisiting definitions of serial verb constructions
In this study, we undertook an experiment in which native speakers of Akan were given serial verbs both with and without oblique non-verbal elements (such as relator nouns, direct objects, postpositions, etc.) and asked them to construct Serial Verb Construction Nominals (SVCNs) from them. We found that, by and large, when not given said non-verbal elements, speakers were not able to construct nominal forms. In another task, we gave speakers nomi…
Akan noun–verb nominal compounds
What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us About the State of Pan-Afrikanism
Names are important to Afrikan=Black people of the continent and diaspora as, traditionally, one’s name is seen as playing a crucial role in the fulfillment (or lack thereof) of one’s life purpose. However, due to enslavement and neo-enslavement in the diaspora as well as colonialism and neo-colonialism on the continent, many Afrikan=Black people now give their children the names of their enslavers or colonial enemies. In this article, we utilize…
Maat vs. The statue of Égalité
In this paper, we endeavor to restore Mꜣꜥt ‘Maat’ as truth to her rightful place by challenging erroneous and demonstrably incorrect notions as they appear in Ataa Ayi Kwei Armah’s Wat Nt Shemsw: The Way of Companions. By cross-referencing Ataa Armah’s vague allusions to “ancient Egyptian” mythology with actual textual documentation from Kmt ‘Black Nation/Land of Blacks’ (so-called “ancient Egypt”), we will interrogate the assertions made about t…
Fiction vs. Evidence
At the 2018 Outstanding African Thinkers Conference on Nna Chinweizu, attendees – the first author included – took a pledge that “In all branches of our lives, we must be capable of criticizing and of accepting criticism. But criticism, proof of the willingness of others to help us or of our willingness to help others, must be complemented by self-criticism – proof of our own willingness to help ourselves to improve our thoughts and our actions. …
Maat and the rebirth of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’
In this paper we examine Ɔbenfo Mario H. Beatty’s chapter, ‘Maat the Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept’ in terms of its articulation of MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’. This examination sets out to delineate how a return to the principles inherent in MꜢꜤt ‘Maat’ can serve to bring about the Wḥm Mswt ‘Rebirth/Renaissance’ of Kmt ‘Land of Black People’ and Kmt(yw) ‘Black People’ economically and politically. This research is significant in that it poin…
Combating cultural imperialism and cultural misorientation to preserve Afrikan intangible cultural heritage
This study aims to address combating cultural imperialism and cultural misorientation to preserve Afrikan=Black intangible cultural heritage noting that the priority must be on indigenous Afrikan=Black people to push our own agenda. The study takes the 2019 UNESCO-ICM Open School as a case study in terms of substantive efforts (or lack thereof) to combat cultural imperialism and cultural misorientation. The study addresses matters of terminology,…
Cardinal numerals in Akan
This paper presents a Construction Morphology account of complex cardinal numeral formation in Akan (Kwa, Niger-Congo). Through a detailed description of the Akan numeral system, which is decimal, we identify various ranges of cardinal numerals and show that they share structures with other constructions in the language because they are either compounds or coordinate constructions. We show that, consistent with crosslinguistic patterns, the two a…
Years? Ancestors Disappear! Historical Misorientation and Disorientation in the Year of Return and the 400 Years Narrative
Mꜣꜥt 'Maat', Death and the Afterlife
This study sets out to demonstrate how in classical and traditional Afrikan thought one's afterlife on physical and spiritual planes is thought of as being commensurate with one's adherence to Mꜣꜥt 'Maat' in terms of lived practice rather than simply as an abstract ideal. As such, we will interrogate textual examples from classical Kmt 'The Black Nation/Land of the Blacks' and attested lived examples from contemporary Afrika among the Kasena-Nank…
Mothering and Re-positioning Africa
Over many years, director and producer Haile Gerima, a man with profound interest in promoting Afrikan=Black histories and social realities through film, has received global recognition for his ‘Auteuristic’ and Afrikan=Black-Centred filmmaking style. One of his films Teza (2008) has received significant recognition and won several awards, yet it remains underexplored in scholarly discourse. We discuss this film using textual analysis and a histo…
Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (3 works)