Announcements & Featured Posts
We’re Hiring! Seeking a Director of Africentric Education and Lifelong Learning
We're hiring a Director of Africentric Education and Lifelong Learning! The Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI) invites our communities to share an important employment opportunity. We are seeking to fill an inaugural role within DBDLI: Director, Africentric Education [...]
Starting from Experience: Asset & Resiliency Mapping – An Africentric Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Framework
Starting from Experience: Africentric Recognition for Prior Learning (ARPL) The “Starting from Experience” project, embodying an Africentric Approach, displayed the tangible assets and process approaches which exist in African [...]
Submit your African Nova Scotian History Challenges Projects by March 6, 2026!
We cannot wait to see your African Nova Scotian History Challenges Projects for our 20th anniversary year! Please submit all of your projects (physical and digital) through our form.
Our Publications
Times of African Nova Scotians – Volume One
Proverb / Word of the Month
“Hold a true friend with both hands.” –African Proverb
Africentric / African-centered Philosophy
Broadly speaking, it is a philosophical manner of thought and way of life that places persons of African ancestry at the center of their own lived realities and analysis by reclaiming historical African values and moving forward to build futures.
DBDLI articulates Africentricity as one of its core values. We state this value as one of our actions.
Africentricity – We are committed to reclaiming and delivering African derived worldviews and values.
International Decade for People of African Descent
As the DBDLI seeks opportunities to advance its mandate, we will promote the Decade with a goal to advance people of African Descent to realize their full potential.
The International Decade for People of African Descent, proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 68/237 and to be observed from 2015 to 2024, provides a solid framework for the United Nations, Member States, civil society and all other relevant actors to join together with people of African descent and take effective measures for the implementation of the programme of activities in the spirit of recognition, justice and development.
For more information, please visit the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent website.
