What is The Akron Rites of Passage Institute (AROPI)?
AROPI is the acronym for Akron Rites of Passage Institute. We are an African-centered 501c3 organization established with the purpose of educating, training and empowering its members/participants in African-centered Rites of Passage process, rituals, customs and practices. AROPI is dedicated to supporting and promoting all aspects of healthy growth and development of individuals, families, and the community.
For far too long, too many of us have been miseducated. It is time for us to reclaim (Sankofa) who we are in our own African image, culturally and historically. We must remember and choose to be free.
We must reclaim our African mind, legacy, spirit of excellence and demand justice.
Restoring is a consistent call and commitment to putting forth effort to heal, achieve, excel and advance. It is only achieved from having a personal, ancestral and spiritual collective consciousness in an African-Centered Framework. Our restoration must be founded on our best traditional African consciousness, culture, principles and values. It is then that we will take our rightful place of leadership and example in the world.
