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Culturalist Lecture Topics

Lectures for universities, museums, cultural institutions, conferences, and community programs. Available formats: keynote (60–90 min), lecture series, workshops, masterclasses, and youth programs

Lecture Topics 

Additional Availability: In addition to the topics listed below, lectures can be developed ad hoc to address relevant, unlisted subjects, interdisciplinary themes, or current events. These talks draw on historical context, cultural analysis, symbolism, and media literacy to help audiences understand unfolding social, political, or cultural moments through a deeper civilizational lens.

AFRICAN CIVILIZATION, SYMBOL & HIDDEN ARCHITECTURE
  1. African Sacred Science: How Ancient Africans Engineered Society, Psychology, and Power

  2. The Hidden Architecture of African Civilization: Symbols, Systems, and Social Order

  3. Dogon Cosmology Explained: Science, Myth, and Misrepresentation

  4. Kemetic Geometry and the Technology of the Temple

  5. The Kongo Cosmogram: Time, Death, Rebirth, and African Worldview

  6. Symbol as Technology: How Images Program Civilizations

  7. African Knowledge Systems Before the Library: Oral Science and Living Archives

POWER, SECRET SOCIETIES & SOCIAL CONTROL
  1. The African Roots of Masonry and Secret Societies

  2. How Power Actually Works: Priesthoods, Kingship, and Social Engineering

  3. Above, So Below: How Elites Use Symbolism to Shape Reality

  4. Hidden Social Architecture: Who Designs the World You Live In

  5. Initiation vs Indoctrination: What Was Lost in Modern Education

  6. Why Every Civilization Has Secrets—and What Happens When They Leak

MEDIA, IMAGERY & THE MODERN MIND
  1. Images Are Spells: How Media Shapes Identity and Behavior

  2. The Myth Factory: Hollywood, Fantasy, and the Rewriting of History

  3. African Images in Media: Erasure, Distortion, and Reclamation

  4. Media Literacy as Cultural Self-Defense

  5. Why Fantasy Matters: World-Building as Political Power

  6. From Myth to Meme: How Ancient Archetypes Control Modern Culture

IDENTITY, INITIATION & RITES OF PASSAGE
  1. The Death of Rites of Passage and the Crisis of Modern Identity

  2. What Initiation Actually Is—and Why Modern Society Avoids It

  3. Masculinity, Femininity, and Balance in African Systems

  4. Why Boys Become Lost Without Elders

  5. Initiation as Psychological Technology

  6. Elders, Ancestors, and the Transmission of Authority

ECOLOGY, MOTHER EARTH & SACRED RESPONSIBILITY
  1. Mother Earth Is Not a Metaphor: African Ecological Consciousness

  2. Why Modern Civilization Is Out of Balance

  3. Sacred Ecology: How Ancients Maintained Environmental Harmony

  4. The Feminine Principle and the Survival of Humanity

  5. Repairing the Earth Requires Repairing Culture

  6. Why Spirituality Without Ecology Is Incomplete

FUTURE, AFROFUTURISM & CIVILIZATIONAL REPAIR
  1. Afrofuturism Beyond Aesthetics: Rebuilding Civilization

  2. Why the Future Needs African Memory

  3. World-Building as Liberation

  4. Myth, Science, and the Next Human Story

  5. Repairing Broken Institutions Through Cultural Design

  6. What the Future Asks of Us Now

FLAGSHIP & KEYNOTE LECTURES
  1. The Hidden African Foundations of the Modern World

  2. How Civilizations Rise, Collapse, and Are Rebuilt

  3. Why Truth Is Not Taught—It Is Initiated

  4. Cultural Literacy Is the Missing Education

  5. From Ancestral Memory to Future Power

Available formats: keynote (60–90 min), lecture series, workshops, masterclasses, and youth programs.

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