Akinjide Bonotchi Montgomery's Mdw Ntr Class [ONLINE] 6/3/2012

Introduction Medew Netcher Language and Culture Course

(14 weeks)

Instructor-Akinjide Bonotchi Montgomery
…Egyptian language must be learned technically, because this language is the key to understanding KMT from an intrinsic paradigm. Positive discussions about KMT is no longer sufficient if our aim is to advance the discipline with sound scholarship. In order for us to have a deep and exciting dialogue with KMT it is necessary for us to master the Egyptian language. This requirement is imperative, for without it we have no beginning. Theophile Obenga

1st Class Sunday, June 3, 2012

Course Description In this class the translation methodology learned in the first class will be used to examine primary text of Kemet. The student will be expected to have memorized the grammar rules learned in the first class. 
The material needs for this second course are the student portfolio, Alan Gardiner’s Middle Egyptian Grammar book, Raymond Faulkner’s Middle Egyptian Dictionary and James Allen Middle Egyptian Grammar.  Almost any grammar book can be of some use (none by Budge).

Course Objectives-
 How to use a Mdw Ntr dictionary. Three pictures with text; the students will translate and provide cultural comments from various sources. The pictures used are full of cultural information besides the written text. 
Final test, review of all work, and personalizing your portfolio.

Course Overview-This course will highlight the value of group study and the use of our translation methodology as a precise tool to extract and organize information from the text.  Students will also learn that this research methodology will enable them to produce information on Kemet based on primary text and sound scholarship.

1.  The Key to learning to translate Medew Netcher is to learn the grammar rules of Medew Netcher. Without an understanding of the grammar rules you will never understand how the people of Kemet expressed their thoughts in their own words.
2. The focus of study must be the grammar rules of the Medew Netcher language based on the science of linguistics. During class all discussion will be about understanding the grammar rules.  Make-up games to play to help build vocabulary and retain grammar rules.
3. Translation is not word or letter substitution.
4. Find study partners. Because of the amount of information that must be put to memory its helps to have study partners.
5. Meet regularly; do not find reasons not to attend class.

Akinjide Bonotchi Montgomery has been a student and researcher of African history and culture for over twenty five years. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization (ASCAC) and one of the founding members of the MDW NTR Study Group of Detroit. Mr. Montgomery at the present is an instructor of African Studies at the Timbuktu Science Academy in Detroit, Mi. He has taught the Mdw Ntr language (Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs) at the Nsorma Institute and the Ashia Shule Academy two other African centered schools in Detroit Michigan.

Mr. Montgomery began his study of African history and culture by taking African history seminars conducted by Dr. Yosef ben Jochannan (Doc. Ben) at Shaw College of Detroit from 1976-79.  He has traveled to Egypt with Doc. Ben and the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization (ASCAC) in 1981,1987.  He studied the Mdw Ntr language (Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs) as a student of  Egyptologists, Rkhty Amen-Jones Ph.D. and Theophile Obenga Ph.D. from 1989-99. He has written numerous magazine articles on African and African-american history (Medew Netcher the Classical African Mother Tongue; KMT “The Black City”; Christianity and Islam as Religious Cultural Belief Systems; Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and the Black Women Club movement; Marcus Garvey and the UNIA). He has produced three outstanding videos, The Old Scrappers a video of short biographies of over fifty men and women scholar activist who have become almost forgotten in the fight against White Supremacy; “To Know KMT by the MDW NTR” a unique view of the language and culture of Kemet and the Nile valley based upon precise translations of the Mdw Ntr text.;  All the Transformations of  Ra. An examination of the role of Kheper in the Creation Text of Kemet. Along with the Mdw Ntr Study Group of Detroit he wrote and published the Kemetic  Spirit Door “The Burial Stela of Khamuy” which provides a unique view into the spiritual concepts of the people of the Nile valley. With the help of other likeminded people in the Detroit community he has written and produce three books, “Resewt,  (South)- is - up”, or Why Africans Live in a World Turned Up-side Down;” along with a set of Resewt-Up  Maps;  All the Transformation of Ra. An Examination of the Role of Kheper in the Creation Text of Kemet; The Oral Tradition of Africa. Words as Intellectual, Cultural, and Spiritual Nourishment.

He has been listed as a “philosopher who is working on the shaping of African classical studies, having Kemet as an historical base.”  The Imhotep magazine on African Philosophy; from San Francisco State University School of African Philosophy.

You can contact Mr. Montgomery at:
5237 commonwealth apt.1s
Detroit, Mi. 48208
Phone-313-897-4998/cell-313-919-8248
Email - bonotchim@aol.com

Dr. Rkhty Amen-Jones Ph. D. Egyptologist.
College Professor of Classical African Languages and African Spiritual Systems
DINQNASH COLLEGE , Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Theophile Obenga Ph. D. Egyptologist
San Francisco State University, Department of Africana Studies!
Email: kmobenga@sfsu.edu