EFUNWANDE OMOBOSEDE
For the past four years I have been working as a supported employment coach for people with disabilities.
First, at a local Virginia non-profit vendor of Fairfax County, Virginia. Then, as a support counselor for adolescents experiencing First Episode Psychosis (FEP) at the Turning Point Program for Fairfax County government Community Services Board (CSB).
Kulture is, Mr. Omobosede’s commentary on society and equality and what he defines as American Character: FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY, LIFE, LIBERTY, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS AND TRANQUILITY in the United States of America.
Efunwande Omobosede is an emerging artist and writer and through which he stresses that black-descendants need a spiritual revolution in the form of the black–descendant religion, Ifa.
Born in 1978, Carlton R. Van Lowe showed an early propensity and inclination toward drawing and art. Accepted to the Gallatin School of New York University in 1996, Carlton continued his interest in art and excelled at writing.
Mr. Omobosede received his Bachelor’s degree from New York University and attended one year of graduate school before getting a job at Floss Magazine, a nationally distributed magazine, focusing on Hip-Hop, fashion and lifestyle.
He continued his education my having worked with some of the most prominent Spiritualists in SoHo and Greenwhich Village New York, NY. And as a devotee to the pillars of the African spiritual community in Washington D.C., in the Chief Priest of the Temple of Nyame Rev. Nana Kwabena Brown, and Founder of the African Heritage Dancers and Drummers Melvin Deal. And as an initiate of Flora Martinez head santera of the House of Obatala in Falls Church, Virginia and owner of the most frequented botanica in Northern Virginia, Botanica Bocuria, and received a Ph. D. as co-founder of Shirley Anna University, for study in spiritual therapy.
For three years Carlton has been a writer for one of Washington D.C.’s leading African American newspapers, the Washington Informer. He has written, as a contributing writer, about a wide rage of issues affecting the African American community in Washington D.C. and across the country.
Showing a propensity for interviewing and interpersonal conversation, Carlton went from being a featured guest reporting on the Washington Informer News TV cable show to being the show’s host.
On the program, Carlton hosted community leaders and activists including Kwame Brown, Ron Walters, Effie Barry, Lawrence Guyot, Michael Brown and Freedom Rider Reginald Green. He also acted as host for a forthcoming Washington Informer News TV documentary on Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Chair Woman of the National Council of Negro Women.
Carlton hopes that Africans and African Americans in this country and abroad will embrace Santeria and incorporate it into the nuances of their everyday lives. As principle author and creative direction of Lion’s Eye Books, Carlton hopes to present the issues of this vodun religion to Africans and African Americans. He hopes to use the revenue from his publishing company to start BEAD(s), an international organization focusing on issues relevant to Africans and African Americans. BEAD(s) stands for Better Education and Development Services and gains its name from the beads of Ifa, known as elekes. The beads of Ifa are the crux of the religion of Ifa and are the main channel of spiritual freedom in the religion.