Rkhty Amen
Linguist, historian, founder and Director of the Institute of Kemetic Philology, wife, and mother of three daughters, Rkhty Amen, has taught Mdu Ntr since 1980. She is a much-in-demand lecturer on various topics related to Kemet (ancient Egypt) and has lectured in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Rkhty is the author of several publications, including The Writing System of Medu Neter, Kemetic Name Book, The Kemetic Calendar Project, A Life Centered Life Living MAAT, Mejat Wefa Mdu Ntr Conversation Book, and articles published in The Journal of African Civilizations, and she is also a contributor to the ASCAC African World History Project. Among her other works are two unpublished translations from French into English by the late Dr. Cheik Anta Diop.
Rkhty (Wimby) Amen studied Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Studies, under Dr. Edward Wente, Dr. Claus Baer, and Dr. Helene Kantor. She also studied Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, and other African languages at the University of Illinois and Spertus College. She is proficient in reading the ancient language of Medu Neter in all of its stages. She has a degree in Linguistics from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Rkhty became a popular much-demanded lecturer, being one of a few African American experts on Medu Neter language and at one time was the only woman lecturing on the subject of Kemet. She has lectured and continues to lecture on a variety of topics relating to ancient Africa and Kemet at Universities and Colleges all over the US and overseas. She was a regular lecturer at the First World lecture series in New York. Some of her lecture topics have included Kemetic Spirituality, Women in Ancient Africa, The African Family, African Education, Life Centered Life, and Medu Neter.
She is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC), a founding member of the Kemetic Institute, a member of the Temple of the African Community of Chicago, a founding member of the Kem Wer Melanin Consortium, and a member of the Sankofa Sanctuary. In 1987 Rkhty established her own institute, the Institute of Kemetic Philology, which is dedicated to the resurrection and mastery of ancient Mdu Ntr as a living, spoken, classical language.
Akinjide Bonotchi
Akinjide Bonotchi Montgomery is a Philosopher, Author, Scholar, and student of Africa and Life. He began his study of African culture in 1977 with Dr. Ben (Yosef ben-Jochannan) Maat Khrew by means of Baba Clarence Harris Maat Khrew at Shaw College of Detroit, Mi. Baba Harris used summer seminars to introduce Doc. Ben and many other Black/African intellectual scholars and activists, such as Dr. Bobby Wright, to the young intellectual activists of Detroit.
Brother Bonotchi has an Associates Degree in Machinal Drawing from Highland Park C.C. of Highland Park Mi, and a Bachelor's degree in General Studies focused on Linguistics and African-American studies from the University of Michigan Dearborn Mi. He studied Electronics and Machinal Drawing at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn Mi.
He studied the Medew Netcher language (Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyph) as a student of Egyptologists Dr. Rkhty Amen and Dr. Theophile Obenga. He was joined in these studies by Asheber Macharia and Babatunde Bandele. He has studied aspects of the Akan cultural system and is initiated in the Yoruba cultural system. Brother Akinjide was listed in Imhotep Magazine on African Philosophy published by the San Francisco University School of African Philosophy as "a philosopher who is working on the shaping of African studies using Kemet as a historical base" (Imhotep Magazine, Vol. 1, February 2000). For over 12 years, Seba Akinjide has been an online teacher of the Medew Netcher language at www.Abibitumikasa.com, the African language Institute founded by Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon
Currently, he continues teaching at Abibitumi.com and the Institute of Kemetic Philology. Brother Bonotchi, Dr. Kambon, Dr. Rkhty, and others are working to revitalize and bring to light the African aspects of the Medew Netcher language.
Seba Akinjide has been a member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization (ASCAC) for over thirty years. He has traveled to Kemet (Egypt) on study tours with Dr. Ben and ASCAC. His book Deconstructing Aspects of the Social Constructions of Race and Racism in Western Culture: How and Why African Americans are Educated into a State of Dumbness by America's Nigger Factories: Highlighting the Need for African-centered Education! is influenced by that ASCAC relationship.
Sonjedi Ankh Ra
Sonjedi Ankh Ra has been teaching Medu Neter (ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs) for ten years and has been an instructor at the Institute of Kemetic Philology since 2019.
He has been a guest presenter at the Temple University's Pan-African Community Education Program (PASCEP), University of Delaware, and a member and presenter at the 2018 and 2019 conferences for the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC).
Sonjedi has studied Medu Neter under Ankh Mi Ra, author of Let the Ancestors Speak, Mfundishi Jhutyms ka n Heru, author of Kupigana Ngumi: Root Symbols of the Ntchru and Ancient Kmt, Spiritual Warriors are Healers, and Mentchu-Hotep and the Spirit of the Medjay, as well as Sebat Rkhty Amen. He is an initiate and Royal Scribe of the Temple of Anu in Newark, NJ. He has a background in Biology from Delaware State University, and the College of Health Sciences in San Antonio, TX.
Djedemankh Heka Ra
Djedemankh Heka Ra was raised in Stedman, NC. As a child in the early 1980s, he developed an affinity for African cultures and pursued this appreciation for his ancestry with more intensity as an adult.
He earned an associate's degree in Information Systems Technology in 2004. It was during his college years when he first tried his hand at Medu Netcher, but it wasn't until after college that he was able to fully pursue the study of the script. After years of self-study, Djedemankh became a student of Rkhty Amen and Bonotchi Montgomery and finished the Medu Netcher program joined by his classmates Chris Frye, Khepera Mery Amen Kieta, and Ra Nwb Shepeses, along with A.J. Giles whom he and Chris began their journey with.
He utilizes his love of the natural world to augment his studies by studying Africa's flora, fauna, and natural phenomena to better understand the Medu Netcher script and place Kemet back into its African context.
Metu DeggKhet
An avid student of philosophy and history, Metu’s chief resource is his unquenchable thirst for and study of Ancient Kemetic history. Through Metu’s research and studies, he portrays the civilization and social order of ancient Kemet in great detail, from the commoner to the high priest and royal family. He shows who they were, their habits, their customs, and their devotion to their reality of life beyond earthly existence.
As a student of Metaphysics, Metu has studied the Kabala, the I Ching, Meditation, Herbalism, Yoga, Medu Neter (Egyptian Hieroglyphs), Astronomy, Astrology, and Ancient History. Metu was one of the authors of the original Calendar Project along with Frederick Reece and Rkhty Amen.