Nduku – Host Kumbukeni

1980-08-19

The Eye of the Storm

https://mbongiyaubuntu.org, YouTube.com/@kumbukeni1

Born and raised in Kenya, Nduku Mulumba is a strong advocate for the human rights of WanaUbuntu (African People Globally to include descendants of enslaved Africans). She was terminated from employment as an analyst with the US federal government for “failure to meet suitability standards,” due to her confronting the system for its structural racism and bias against WanaUbuntu. Nduku has worked in different capacities addressing the lack of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal government. Having worked in the federal government for about 7 years, she has a good understanding of the challenges WanaUbuntu Employees face under employment by United States organizations, both private and government.

Nduku started confronting the structural and systemically designed mechanisms of racism that make up the United States government and institutions during the campaign season leading to the Trump presidency. She got to see and hear up close the bias and racism that is engrained in the structures that make up the United States society, with the federal government overseeing it. She therefore took it upon herself to study the history of WanaUbuntu in the United States, the civil rights movement, the intentionally and systemically designed mechanisms of the United States government and institutions that keep WanaUbuntu subjugated and continuously marginalized. Nduku has studied civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, and freedom advocates like Amilcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara, Dedan Kimathi, Patrice Lumumba, Che Guevara, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko, Micere Githae Mugo, Walter Rodney, and many others that she continues to learn about in her continued studies about the Global WanaUbuntu Community.

Nduku is a proud “Pan-Afrikan” (MwanaUbuntu) who is dedicating the later part of her life to being of service to the Global WanaUbuntu Community. On Kumbukeni, an Afrikan run and owned podcast, she is committed to countering the false narrative that Western and foreign media have propagated on Global WanaUbuntu and Nsi Ya Ubuntu (Afrika) for centuries now. Nduku has also joined with other WanaUbuntu to educate the WanaUbuntu Community on “Pan-Afrikanism” and the importance of uniting against the structures intentionally put in place to subjugate WanaUbuntu globally. Nduku focuses on solutions we as WanaUbuntu can take on as a collective to counter and tear down these systems of exploitation and oppression for the well-being of the Global WanaUbuntu Community.

Nduku studied Jurisprudence with a minor in Paralegal studies at Montclair State University. She also has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [DEI] Certificate from the Center of Executive Management in the Government at Rutgers University.

Nduku believes in addressing the problems in society straight forward without sugarcoating or ignoring them at the risk of being complacent with a system that exploits and oppresses WanaUbuntu. Nduku supports the well-being of all human beings, but as a member of the Global WanaUbuntu Community, her focus is on matters affecting them specifically. Nduku believes that we as WanaUbuntu accommodate white fragility, which includes fragility of those who gatekeep the false notion of white supremacy, at the risk of allowing them to continue upholding this false notion while subjugating and marginalizing WanaUbuntu in a never-ending cycle of deceit. Nduku knows and makes it clear that confronting racism is not a walk in the park and anyone who is committed to doing it should not expect the conversations that go along with it to be pleasant. Confronting racism is an indictment of the Systems and Structures that allow for it, and the people who run and uphold these Systems and Structures, and they will do anything to maintain their status in society, including criminalizing, villainizing, and even killing those who confront the Systems and Structures as history and contemporary times have shown us.

Nduku started the Mbôngi Ya Ubuntu community organization to build structures that will lead to our financial liberation and return to Our Way of Being. Part of what Mbôngi Ya Ubuntu is doing is teaching KiUbuntu (erroneously known as Kiswahili) and collecting data to show the evidence that KiUbuntu is indeed a language of different Bantu-speaking nations who came together in the Eastern region of Nsi Ya Ubuntu way before the Arabs invaded and colonized this region resulting in the Swahili Peoples who are descendants of Arabs and WanaUbuntu through mostly forced relations. To learn more about the work Mbôngi Ya Ubuntu is doing visit their website at https://mbongiyaubuntu.org (website is ongoing construction).

nduku@alkebulan.email