The following are the introduction videos to each lesson in the New Afrikan Diplomatic and Civil Service Corps (NADCSC) Certification Courses for becoming a New Afrikan Diplomat.

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COURSE 1: FROM NATURAL LAW TO CONFLICT OF LAWS TO BERLIN CONFERENCE

PROJECT: UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND DOCTRINES OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYTEM

LESSONS: TWENTY-FOUR (24) SECTIONS DIVIDED INTO FOUR (4) LESSONS

WHAT WE’LL COVER: NATURAL LAW AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN PRE-KEMETIC AFRICAN SOCIETY; THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF AFRICAN PEOPLE; DEVELOPMENT OF LAW IN EUROPE; THE CRIMINAL TRAFFICKING OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN LINEAGE AND HERITAGE AS PRISONERS OF WAR; THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA AND THE BERLIN CONFERENCE

Lesson 1: Historical Background and Doctrines - Before Kemet

This lesson covers pages 11-52 in textbook Volume 1. It establishes the origin and evolution of the Fundamental Rights of the African People, the spiritual and philosophical foundations of these rights, and uses the conflict between the Balanta and the Mesnitu Blacksmiths of the Cult of Horus at Edfu as an illustration of “inter”-communal (national) law and conflict of laws before the coming of Europeans.

Lesson 2: Natural Law and the Development of the Law of Nations in Europe

This lesson covers pages 54 -80 in textbook Volume 1. In Lesson 1 we learned the origin and evolution in law in Africa. Now we must learn the evolution of law in Europe to have a firm grounding in the conflict of laws that was invoked with the Dum Diversas Apostolic Edict by Pope Nicholas V on June 18, 1452 declaring total war on the people living in territories on the African continent and initiating the criminal trans Atlantic trafficking and enslavement of African prisoners of war.

Lesson 3: The Criminal Trans Atlantic Trafficking and Enslavement of African People in the British North American Colonies

This lesson covers pages 80 - 132 in textbook Volume 1 and traces the development of the conflict of laws during the fusion of various African people in the British North American colonies into a New Afrikan people and nation, situated in international society.

Lesson 4: The Scramble for Africa

This lesson covers pages 133 -199 in textbook Volume 1. The previous chapter developed the conflict of laws faced by New Afrikans in the U.S. Lesson 4 follows this conflict across the Atlantic in Africa culminating with the Berlin Conference.

COURSE 2: FROM THE BERLIN CONFERENCE TO WORLD WAR II

PROJECT: FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING COLONIZATION

LESSONS: SIXTY-0NE (61) SECTIONS DIVIDED INTO SIX (6) LESSONS

WHAT WE’LL COVER: FROM LAW OF NATIONS BASED ON TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY TO THE MANDATE SYSTEM OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND NEW AFRIKAN CLAIMS; W.E.B. DUBOIS AND MARCUS GARVEY AT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Lesson 5: "Effective Occupation" and the Conclusion of the Berlin Conference and the rise of Pan Africanism

This lesson covers textbook Volume 2 pages 3-23. Not long after the Berlin conference, Pan Africanism began to advance, starting with the Chicago Congress on Africa in 1893 that led to the series of Pan African Congress up until today.

Lesson 6: Paris Peace Conference (1919), the League of Nations and the Mandates System

This lesson covers textbook Volume 2 pages 23-79 and focuses on the development of the Mandates and Protectorate System implemented by the League of Nations.

Lesson 7: Pan Africans at the Paris Peace Conference - Ethiopia, DuBois and Garvey

Textbook Volume 2 pages 80-104. In the last lesson, we learned the artificial and racist nature of the development of positive law from the Paris Peace Conference and the establishment of the League of Nations. In this lesson, we see how New Afrikans such as W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvery and others engaged the European powers during the creation of the League of Nations and repudiated its Mandates system.

Lesson 8: Pan Africanists Seek Justice at League of Nations and Pan African Congresses

Textbook Volume 2 pages 104-131. In this lesson, we go into the further details of New Afrikan attempts, especially by W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey, at international diplomacy and state-building in 1919-1923 during the League of Nations’ Mandates System period.

Lesson 9: The Mandates System and the New Afrikan Nation Within A Nation

Textbook Volume 2 pages 131-172. The Mandate System can be defined as an internationally sanctioned method of colonialism. In this lesson we take a deep dive into how the Mandates System of the League of Nations set the precedent for the United Nations Human Rights Petitioning of today. We also look at the further development of Marcus Garvey’s relationship with this system and how other world events factored into this period leading up to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935.

Lesson 10: Emperor Haile Selassie and the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia 1935

Textbook Volume 2 pages 172-185 covers the most significant event of the 20th century: the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and the conflict between the League of Nations and the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of Judah. It became the most prophetic event of the past 2,000 years.

COURSE 3: FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE SUMMIT CONFERENCE ON AFRICA 1962

PROJECT: UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL LEGAL WORLD ORDER

LESSONS: FIFTY-FIVE (55) SECTIONS DIVIDED INTO LESSONS EIGHT (8) LESSONS

WHAT WE’LL COVER: CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS: REGARDING NON SELF GOVERNING TERRITORIES AND TRUSTEES; THE UNITED STATES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE TRUSTEE SYSTEM; RAYFORD LOGAN AND RALPHE BUNCHE; AFRICAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS AND THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; THE RIGHT OF SELF DETERMINATION; THE FRENCH COLONIAL PACT AFTER INDEPENDENCE; THE ROLE OF H.I,.M HAILE SELASSIE I

Lesson 11: Charter of the United Nations, The United States, and the Origin of the Trustee System

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 7-52 and we will learn about the new UN system for colonization called “Non-Self Governing Territories and Trusteeship”. The United States in Micronesia is given as an example.

Lesson 12: New Afrikans and the UN System: W.E.B. DuBois, Rayford Logan, and Ralph Bunche

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 52-106 and covers the period when New Afrikan intellectuals, trained in the internationalist footsteps of DuBois (though not always mirroring his politics) became involved in post-war planning in the US and abroad and would have a great though unheralded impact on shaping the UN Trusteeship Council.

Lesson 13: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Genocide Convention, and UN Resolution 545 on the Rights of Self Determination

This lesson covers Textbook Voume 3 pages 107 - 128 and traces the development of the international legal principles that were invoked by the We Charge Genocide Petition in 1951 and that we are still utilizing today.

Lesson 14: Self Determination Struggles 1952-1956

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 129 - 159. The Mau Mau initiate the movement for African independence, the United States launches its counter-revolution integration program through the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the non-white world meets at the Bandung Conference, and the trial of the first Genocide of the 20th Century: the South West Africa cases (Ethiopia v. South Africa; Liberia v. South Africa).

Lesson 15: The African Liberation Movement from Ghana's Independence (1957) to UN Resolution 1514 on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (1960)

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 129 - 159. The Mau Mau initiate the movement for African independence, the United States launches its counter-revolution integration program through the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the non-white world meets at the Bandung Conference, and the trial of the first Genocide of the 20th Century: the South West Africa cases (Ethiopia v. South Africa; Liberia v. South Africa).

Lesson 16: UN Resolutions 1514, 1541 and 1542: Decolonization and Self Determination

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 202 - 213 and discusses some important details relating to decolonization, self determination and Article 73 of the UN Charter.

Lesson 17: From the Assasination of Patrice Lumumba (1961) to the French Colonial Compact After Independence: African Liberation Intensifies

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 213 - 240. There is revolutionary action on both sides of the Atlantic by Africans at home and abroad while Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie proves to be the Father of World Diplomacy.

Lesson 18: Franz Fanon and HIM Haile Selassie I Messages to the World 1961-1962

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 3 pages 240 - 270. Excerpts from Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” and HIM Haile Selassie’s Address to the Summit Conference of Africa 26 January 1962

COURSE 4: COLONIALISM, DECOLONIALISM, INDEPENDENCE AND THE RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION

PROJECT: UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION, RISKS, BENEFITS, PROCEDURES AND STRATEGIES FOR ESTABLISHING NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY PART 1

LESSONS: EIGHTY-FIVE (85) SECTIONS DIVIDED INTO EIGHT (8) LESSONS

WHAT WE’LL COVER: DOMESTIC COLONIALISM, QUEEN MOTHER AUDREY MOORE - THE BRIDGE FROM GARVEYISM TO COMMUNISM TO BLACK BELT TERRITORY TO NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE AND REPARATIONS; THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY AND THE AFRICAN LIBERATION COMMITTEE; MALCOLM X; THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEMENT; INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL LAW; IMPERIALIST WARFARE AGAINST AFRIKAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS AND THE VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAWS

Lesson 19: HIM at PAFMECA, US Domestic Colonialism, African and New Afrikan Independence Movement - 1962

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 1-40: East Africa gets organized at PAFMECA, and Harold Cruse publishes a landmark article on United States domestic colonialism. followed by the ANPP, Queen Mother Audrey Moore & the Crusader. Meanwhile, the national liberation fronts on the continent advance.

Lesson 20: The Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa - May 1963

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 41 - 59. The seminanl moment when the heads of state choose an inter-governmental form of union instead of a unitarian form and commit to the total liberation of the continent.

Lesson 21: New Afrikans In Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 59 - 84. Chinese support, the emergence of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 20 November 1963

Lesson 22: Malcolm X, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) & THE LIBERATION COMMITTEE, and the evolution of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)- 1964

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 84 - 148. The focus is on the development of Black Nationalism by Malcolm X, his intervention at the OAU, and the further evolution of RAM, all in 1964.

Lesson 23: From Mozambique to Montgomery and back again - RAM & African Liberation in 1965

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 148 - 178. Development of Nationalism in Mozambique, the Assasination of Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party in the US and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 21 December 1965

Lesson 24: Black Power & Black Panthers at Home and Abroad - 1966

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 178 - 208. Stokely Carmichael and SNCC offer Black Power, ZAPU, SWAPO and Resolutions of the OAU Seventh Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers Held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 31 October to 4 November, 1966

Lesson 25: ICJ, ICCPR, ICESCR, and the Black Power Conference

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 208 - 224. HIM Haile Selassie Denounces the International Court of Justice (ICJ); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Black Power Conference and the Kerner Commission - 1967

Lesson 26: COINTELPRO, the Republic of New Afrika, and Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity - 26 November 1968

This lesson covers Textbook Volume 4 pages 224 - 251. The FBI COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BLACK NATIONALIST - HATE GROUPS INTERNAL SECURITY MEMO launches attacks against the nationalists in the US while those on the continent call for Revolution while the UN removes statute of limitation on war crimes.

COURSE 5: PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, FREINDLY RELATIONS AND PLEBISCITE STRATEGIZING

PROJECT: UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION, RISKS, BENEFITS, PROCEDURES AND STRATEGIES FOR ESTABLISHING NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY PART 2

LESSONS: SIXTY-FIVE (65) SECTIONS

WHAT WE’LL COVER: DECLARATION ON PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, FRIENDLY RELATIONS AND CO-OPERATION AMONG STATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS; RNA AND BLACK LIBERATION ARMY; THE UNITED STATES VS. IMARI OBADELE; AFRICAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS; NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEMORANDUM 46; REPARATIONS; ETHNOCIDE; WHY AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE AN INTERNAL COLONY; THE LOGICAL ULTIMATUM

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COURSE 6: THE CALL FOR THE FIRST NEW AFRIKAN & AFRO DESCENDANT PLEBISCITE CONGRESS IN THE U.S.

PROJECT:  POPULARIZE OUR CAUSE WHICH IS THE URGENT NEED TO EXERCISE SELF DETERMINATION THROUGH A PLEBISCITE IN LESS THAN A GENERATION

LESSONS: ONBOARDING TO BECOME NADCSC CERTIFIED

WHAT WE’LL COVER: THE CALL FOR THE FIRST NEW AFRIKAN & AFRO DESCENDANT PLEBISCITE FOR SELF DETERMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES; THE INITIAL PLEBISCITE SURVEY; BUILDING OUR CAMPAIGN MACHINE; FUNDAMENTALS OF THE NEW AFRIKAN DIPLOMATIC AND CIVIL SERVICE CORPS; PROFILE AND PROCESS FOR NADCSC LEADERSHIP AND ROLES ASSIGNMENT; TENURE OF OFFICE AGREEMENT