Co-Founder of Maafa Kebuka

Olufemi Shepsu aka Okomfo Kwabena Frempong

Olufemi Baraka Shepsu M.S.W. aka Okomfo Kwabena Frempong is a School Social Worker employed by Richmond Public Schools, and is currently assigned to Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. Olufemi has had the privilege and honor of working with Black Families and Children in the City of Richmond for over 31 years, and has dedicated his life to their Freedom, Sovereignty, and Healing. He is a native of Richmond, Va. and is a graduate of Virginia Union University, and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work. Olufemi is an advocate of African-Centered Psychology/Social Work. He is also a co-facilitator for the Cultural Mis-Orientation Co-Hort that was created by Black Psychologist Kobi Kambon, and is a Co-creator of the Kobi Kambon Black Mental Health Institute, the Maafa/Kebuka Ancestral Commemoration and the Abusua Pa Black Family Institute. Olufemi is married to Obosomfo Yaa Kwatemaa Frempong and they are the parents of 4 children. He is an active member of the Ankobea/NSAA Society, The National Association of Black Social Workers, The National Coalition of Blacks For Reparations (Health Commission), Akom Kese, and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Okomfo Olufemi is the Co-Chair of the Pan-African Affairs Committee, and is a Sage on the African-Centered Social Work Academy of the National Association of Black Social Workers. He is also the Co-Chair of the Education Committee of the Richmond Association of Black Social Workers.

2026 Invited Presenter and cofounder of Abusua Pa

Dr. Reginald "Kweku" Hopkins

Reginald Hopkins is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia State University
(VSU). He received his B.S. degree in Marketing from the School of Business at Florida A&M
University (FAMU) and his Master’s degree in Community Psychology from FAMU. He
received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Howard University. He served as chair of the
Department of Psychology at VSU, project director, program evaluator, and research associate for
several research firms before beginning his tenure as a full time faculty member at VSU. He is
married with four children. His research interests are in the areas of 1) race relations, 2) racism and
psychosocial stress, and 3) the moderating effects of culture and cultural identity on health,
academic achievement, teaching, mentoring, and learning among African Americans and teachers.

2026 Invited Presenter

Neico Slater-Sa Ra

Neico Slater-Sa-Ra is a wife of over 25 years, a mother of 4, and a grandmother of 2. Mrs. Slater Sa-Ra earned advanced degrees from Florida A & M University in Education & Psychology. Lovingly known as Dr. Mama Neico, this sister has worked for over 20 years as an educator and healer. Dr. Slater-Sa-Ra is a consultant on African Centered Education, Rites of Passage, Leadership, and is a professor specializing in African Black Psychology.  In her spare time, she loves to read, dance, and garden with grandchildren.

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Her life goal is to give access to people who are interested in ways to better develop their cultural identity. While addressing the key areas: 
African Centered Psychology, African Spirituality, African-centered Education, and Women’s Work. 
 

Abusua Pa Black Family Institute

Maafa Kebuka Planning Committee

Family Collective also known as an Abusua Kuo

2015 Panelists

Shrine Workers Traditional Akan & Yoruba

Maroonage: Traditional Afrikan Spirituality and Resistance

Maafa Kebuka 2014

Panelists

A.Phillip Bailey, Latif Tarik, Renee Galloway, Kwabena Frempong, Azibo Turner, Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet, Kwao Magliore

2019 Warrior Healer Builder Presentation

Wekesa Madzimoyo

Warriors-Healers-Builders is a powerful interactive workshop that allows everyone to do the internal, interpersonal, family, and organizational work to help us heal, communicate and organize so that we can remove people from power over us.

2019 Special Guest Presenter 

Mwalimu Baruti

Mwalimu Baruti from Atlanta brought his Kebuka Ritual to the 6th Annual Maafa Kebuka.  Facilitating a ceremony if you will that engaged participants to put the selves in position to assist the in the recapturing of their Afrikan mind to ancestral remembrance by giving the real feel of our Maafa (Great Destruction). Through it we can see our forced movement out of Afrika as our ancestors experienced it. Giving participants their memory. "Seeing thourgh the eyes of the ancestors.

Maafa Kebuka Theater - Healing Ancestral Wounds

Iman Shabazz

Iman is an actor, a pan-afrikan nationalist and an activist. His performance medium however ranges from poetry to Hip Hop to Theatre.