The birth of Kunjufu's two sons, Shikamana and Walker, further focused his energies on the contradictions inherent in black education and especially in the education of young black males. His presentations were well received, and Kunjufu eventually decided to make educational consulting his career in 1980 he founded a publishing and consulting company in Chicago called African American Images. Ten years later he finished a doctorate in business administration at Union Graduate School.ĭespite his formal training in business, Kunjufu was early on fascinated-and appalled-by the educational system for black students in America, and from 1974 onward he began delivering lectures and workshops treating the problems facing black educators. Kunjufu attended Illinois State University at Normal and received a bachelor of science degree in economics in 1974. As a young man, Kunjufu was urged by his father to volunteer his time at a number of different jobs, working without pay in exchange for learning firsthand how businesses and skilled craftsmen went about their work. Born on June 15, 1953, in Chicago, Kunjufu-who adopted a Swahili name in 1973-credits his parents, Eddie and Mary Brown, with affording him the encouragement, discipline, and stability that would later become the core of his program for the renewal of black society.
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