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Today December 7th 2001, I celebrate 4 years of The Afrocentric Experience. Yes I am proud to say, this is the 4th anniversary of my web site. It started as a simple idea and with very little promotion and advertisement it has now blossom into one of the best source of positive information for people of African descent on the web. At The Afrocentric Experience you can always learn something new and positive about Black people. The Afrocentric Experience also gives you information on news throughout the African Diaspora, a listing of over 2000 African Names, Reparations, Maafa (African Holocaust of Slavery and colonialization), Rasta, Voodoo, Black Leaders, Black Inventors, Recipes, Past African Kings and Queens, Calypso Music, Kwanzaa, Afrocentric Books, St. Kitts Nevis, and much more. The Afrocentric Experience also gives one of the best daily listings of events through out Black history on its Today In Black History web page.

The word is spreading fast also. During its first year of existence it received 15000 hits, 100 000 hits during the second year and 455 060 hits by the third year. Now today that number has grown exponentially to over 100 6734 hits or unique visitors with over 2,548,400 pages viewed. Just yesterday alone the site received 3545 hits with 14784 pages viewed. The Afrocentric Experience has over 3000 guest book entries and 1753 members on its email list. There is also a very vibrant Afrocentric Forum with more than 1500 members. Here many visitors are able to discuss many different issues that affect people of African descent through the African Diaspora.

The Afrocentric Experience has been featured on WLIB radio station, Tech TV, Jet Magazine, BBC.com, Africana.com, Lycos.com, AOL.com search engine.

For the upcoming year the aim is get at least 2 000 000 hits by the 5th anniversary (the goal of 1 000 000 hits was achieved this year). The goal is to use this vital tool to further the empowerment process of all people of African descent throughout the African Diaspora. The web site will keep on growing and later this month there will be the addition of information on Capoeria a unique African Brazilian Martial Art. This was use during slavery to stage successful enslaved African revolts on many plantations in Brazil.

At this time I would like to say thanks to all that have contributed to the web site and to keep the contributions coming. Thanks for all the words of encouragement keep them coming alos.

As I close I would like to ask this question: What is African Unity? This is the overwhelming power of people of African descent in Africa and the African Diaspora thinking in the same direction. It is not unity in the traditional sense; it is instead a full spiritual and intellectual commitment to a vision that constitutes the collective restoration of our people to their traditional greatness.

As we thrive for African Unity we now have another tool such as the Internet or the World Wide Web to achieve this goal. So use the tools of the web and bookmark this web site or make this site your home page or send an email to tell a friend about the Afrocentric Experience http://www.swagga.com . Hotep!