CBACS is a research and education resource centre which applies the knowledge of the ages to the life experience of the descendants of enslaved Africans. This is with a view to achieving the longer aim vision of demonstrating British African-Caribbean (BAC) competence, mutuality with the ethnic majority and repositioning ourselves as integral to British society.
CBACS mission is that of liberating the human potential of the descendants of enslaved Africans living in Britain through working with the visible and invisible legacies of slavery. Our focus is threefold:
Removing the blockages caused by slavery and the silence that surrounds it enabling us to be ‘free within ourselves’;
Developing a British African-Caribbean ethnic culture and thereby perspective enabling us to finally take back control of our own lives.
Embedding the principle of service as a primary characteristic of BAC culture
CBACS utilises an ethnic lens of analysis to develop the conscious bicultural competence of its members. Learning is central to the agenda of CBACS as is the adoption of a systems approach to understanding our lives. At the core of CBACS are the essential values of critical thinking, balance/harmony, freedom, cultural integrity, transformation and love.
CBACS, in adopting a systems approach to transformation for the descendants of enslaved Africans, realises there will be important implications for the wider society as a whole. Consequently, CBACS also places emphasis on teachers in the British educational system, understood as cultural workers and agents of change, and the development of their conscious bicultural competence too. CBACS aims to achieve this through The Metanoia Project(teach)2007-2034
CBACS Foundation
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CBACS Foundation: Purpose
CBACS Foundation is a not-for-profit education and research centre focussed on providing compensatory cultural education for members of the British African Caribbean community. Our memorandum of association identifies the objects of the CBACS Foundation as:
… an educational centre focussed on
contributing to wider social inclusion, cohesion and economic growth through
facilitating cultural evolution amongst British African Caribbeans in three
primary areas: transformation and self-renewal; self-reliance and community
regeneration.
CBACS Foundation: Leadership
The two directors of CBACS Foundation, Dr Gloria Gordon and Dr Humphrey Jartue-Gilpin JP, are committed to helping young people succeed in school and later life.
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The Metanoia Pledge
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At the launch of the Metanoia Project 2007-2034 and Dr. Gloria Gordon's book, Towards Bicultural Competence on December 10th 2007, the Metanoia Pledge was also laid out and presented for signatures of all present who felt that the development of bicultural competence and the reformation of culture are necessary steps in our human evolvement.
Notable signatures are on the pledge and the majority of people present felt strongly enough about the issue to sign up. The only problem was that there was not enough space for everyone to sign!
