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Rev Khandi Konte-Bey (Paasewe)
Location: columbus, OH United States
Joined: May 16th, 2007

About (request update)

Rev. Khandi Konte-Bey was born in Richard Allen City (phila. pa) in 1954. At age 13 she became a Black Panther, Graveyite and Muur and danced on the Apollo stage with Sun Ra Kosmic Arkestra in NYC. She moved to NJ, married and had 5 children in 1976 at age 21. She moved to Ohio when her Family (MOVE) was bombed in the 1980's. She is still a resident in columbus Ohio. She has co-founded 5 independent Afrikan schools in several states, COASADOS Church and several theater companies.

My Interview Question

what is your ideological world view and spiritual consciousness?

Life & Professional Aspirations:

Hobbies: sing 31 languages, writing, Black history, craftswoman, artist, sketch artist, doll maker, jeweler Music: Arts: News: Sports:

Education (request update)

Central State University class of 1998

Undergrad Major: Political Science

Claim To Fame:

ACTIVIST ACHIEVEMENTS: Black Panther Party member from age 13; Garveyite at age 13; MOVE (Family Afrika Supporter); Community activist; co-founder of DEC (Determination & Empowerment Collective created to address the rights of food stamp recipients in the Montgomery Country area of Ohio); Pan Afrikanist Congress of Azania member; All Afrikan People's Revolutionary Party member; conscious citizen of the Provisional Government Republic of New Afrika; Wachitaw citizen; delivered all my own children at home; immunized my own children; educated my own children; delivered hundreds of babies for sistas at home… certified herbalist and homeopath… mother of 14 children: 6 from my womb and 8 adopted… foster parent and mentor to hundreds of children… helped build four independent Afrikan schools; Save Our Land Community Patrol - organization developed to protect the community from police brutality; Garveyite; ideology: Afrikan centered cultural matrix and Pan-Afrikan Internationalist. ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS Khandi Music Studio - co-founder, engineer, lyricist, arranger, producer, composer; Soul In Motion Players Theater Co. - co-founder, director, producer, performer; NaNiKha A cappella Singers - co-founder, arranger, producer, lyricist, vocalist, recording engineer Khandi & Friends Theater Co. - co-founder, director, producer, performer; Sunni Bey Jazz Ensemble - vocalist, shakare artist; Sun Ra Archestra - dancer, vocalist; Universal Kosmic Ark Ensemble - dancer, vocalist Afrikan Women's Shakare Society of Philadelphia - shakare performer and craftswoman; Ile Nkwada Lamumba Library & Reading Room - co-founder & facilitator of study sessions and reading tutorials; Ile Nkwada Mi Raw Food Vegetarian Delights Catering - co-founder; Khandi Computer Services - co-founder, contributes essays and information data bases for various on-line services; author of various articles (Mental Maladjustment of the Afrikan Personality, Demystification of the Psychopathic Racial Behavior), essays, book analysis (Mumia Abu Jamal Cultural Imperialism & The KKKourts), poet, playwrite and sketch artist, etc.

Most Memorable Moment:

4.0 gpa for first 2 years of college; honors society for the entire 5 years of college and graduated Magna cum laud 3.792 gpa... being able to attend as a non-traditional student at a college that understood the needs of my generation based on the damage that public school did to us culturally, historically, and consciously