About Asar/Osir
Recover. Connect. Illuminate
An Ancestral Memory Recovery Specialist.
My mission is simple: to recover, examine, and communicate knowledge across the boundaries of history, language, culture, philosophy, and technology—bringing overlooked perspectives into conversation with contemporary scholarship and making complex ideas accessible, meaningful, and transformative
Through research, writing, visual storytelling, and interdisciplinary inquiry, we seek to question inherited assumptions, illuminate connections, and contribute to a deeper understanding of African communities of memory and its intellectual traditions.
Additional Information
Research Interests
- Computer science and programming
· Historical Comparative Linguistics, Semantics, Socio-Linguistics
· Social Inequality/Stratification
· Comparative African Religions
· African Anthropology and Human Migrations
· Genetics
· Environmental Sustainability
· Research Methodology
Hobbies
Music production, poetry, photography, videography, learning ancient writing scripts
Professional Organizations
Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations
National Council of Black Studies
Martin Delany Center for Egyptology
Centre d’Études Égyptologiques de l’INADEP
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Invited Talks, Presentations, and Other Professional Activities
- Invited Speaker, “Biomimicry of Medu-Netcher: Reclaiming Our Environmental Heritage,” Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference, Texas A&M University, 2008
- Presenter, “Culture and the Grand Unified Theorem: A preliminary case for an African-American Cultural Development Project,” National Conference of Black Studies Conference, 2009
- Invited Speaker, “Kamitude: A Catalyst for an African Scientific Renaissance,” Seventh Annual Fall Leadership Conference, Arizona State University, 2011
- Invited Speaker, “Maat’s Origin in Family,” Caravan to the Ancestors, NBUF, Galveston, TX, 2012
- Invited Speaker, "The classical language of African people: Why we need to study the source", Molefe Kente Asante Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
- Keynote Speaker, “The African-American Adinkra Project: An exercise in human relating and African agency”, 29th annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
- Invited Speaker, "Culture as a Basis of Power: Creative tools of development to help Afrikans win," Darisha La Watoto Kwa Africa, Pittsburgh, PA, 2022
- Featured Speaker, "Linguistics: a tool for ancestral memory recovery and an instrument of intellectual warfare", HAPI Power in Unity Conference, Detroit, MI | Aswan, Egypt, 2022
- Invited Speaker, "Reexamining the Divine from an Egypto-Bantu Lens: a linguistic and cultural analysis of the word nṯr", West Africa and Beyond: Ancient Nubian and Egyptian Connections with the Niger Valley and the Atlantic World Conference, Online, 2022
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Research Applications
Years of research that is grounded in traditional African knowledge and wisdom systems have inspired a range of initiatives dedicated to advancing African communities and fostering a resilient, healthy, and self-determined culture capable of addressing the evolving needs of African people. More details to come.
