about the artist


Hotep has been with me since my personal journey of studying peace.

What began as a class assignment in a Urban Economics Public Policy class to seek economic solutions for African American communities, turned into trying to prove my solution- increase the participation of African American's in agriculture industry.

When I read, "Up From Slavery," by Booker T. Washington, and learned how Dr. George Washington Carver directed the agricultural program at Tuskegee,


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and how Thomas Campbell, drove the Jessup wagon later known as the movable school, to teach others outside of Tuskegee, some of the curriculum being taught at Tuskegee, I became inspired to seek a similar model of self sufficiency in Oakland, CA.

When I later read, "My experiments," by Muhatma Gandhi, I begin to accept that when one decides to act on behalf of improving a community (and typically these communities have been under so much distress, poverty, poor schools, crime, for a long time) ones actions are experimental.

Since we cannot tell the future. As our parents and grandparents could not tell the future, we do our best today, to make a better day tomorrow.

Like Dr. King, Cesar Chavez, and Muhatma Gandhi, who not only talked about peace, but lived by example, to create a peaceful world, through Hotep, the adventures to have world peace continues.

We hope you enjoy!

 

Hotep means Peace.

Peace in self, is where peace begins.

 

"PICK A FRUIT.
FEED A CHILD.
PLANT A SEED.
FEED A NATION."

From the land of ancient Kemet. The governer of the first cataract Merneke speaks of a dwarf who was praised high by the Pharoah of Kemet. This dwarf's name was Hotep.

These are his adventures.

"Before violence, there was injustice. Before injustice, there was Peace."

the Adventures of Hotep