Meet the Founder of The Pan African Community Center?

Welcome to My Blog "The African Diaspora World"

My name is Takasha Wroten; Founder and CEO of Wrote My Path LLC, dba The Pan African Community Center & Anointed Tees, and Anointed productions.

Who I am & where I come from...

I am a native of Los Angeles, CA. My family connections are the Wroten's and Gillespie's families from Watts, CA. Watts is where I spent the first eight years of my life before moving to South Central Los Angeles. Fun fact: I have lived all over Los Angeles! From the East side to South side and in between! I am a true Native of Southern California!

I graduated from Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles in 1993!!! The best class year ever! Since graduating from high school, I obtained a bachelor's degree from Ashford University's Forbe's School of Business in Organizational Management. I have had too many jobs to list and have been a serial Entrepreneur for years. And not all in that order!

What value I hope to bring to my Pan African Community...

For many years I have wondered about the relationships within the Pan African Community or more specifically, the lack of relationships within our different communities.

I have always lived around or have gone to school with other children of the African Diaspora, but outside of school there was not much or no interaction between us outside of school...well until Nina.

Nina was a childhood friend who lived just two buildings over from me. Nina's mother was Native American, and her father was an immigrant Afro-Latino. As a little girl, I was quite curious about Nina and her family because they were brown like me but didn't sound or look like me. As we played and got to know each other, none of that mattered. But I did notice that there wasn't much interaction between our other friends' parents, mine, and hers.

As I have grown older, I continue to see the divisions between the African immigrant community and the non-African immigrant communities. Truthfully, all our communities have borders and barriers that we have placed between us. That is why I have created the Pan African Community Center. I want to provide a space where the People of the African Diaspora can come to teach and learn about our cultural roots. I will provide a safe space to have guided discussions on how we can repair and rebuild our relationships. The hard conversations or clearing conversations as my Pastor calls it, must be had! We must do the challenging work of rebuilding our communities. We do that by focusing on our own people's needs, begin developing goals and strategies necessary to move us towards financial, political, and social freedom!

Together we can!!!

Now is the time to come together for the survival of our people. Now, more than ever before, people of African descent are actively searching out who we are and where we come from. African people on the continent and off are saying that people lost through the enslavement of our ancestors are welcomed to come back! Now we have the internet which brings each other into closer proximity to each other so we can get more accomplished!

We have an opportunity now, that we haven't seen since the Montgomery boycott! We need to begin gaining momentum to encourage every African and African Descent person that we can succeed in gaining economic freedom, political freedom, and social freedom!

But, before we can do that, we must come together first to repair and foster our relationships, we must start thinking about the good of all our people and begin producing plans and strategies to accomplish our goal!