WHO WE ARE:

We create African centered educational experiences, publish tradmag.ca, and create learning tools for students, teachers, and community.TRAD Magazine is the publication for African ideas and collective memories.

OUR STORY:

TRAD began as a campus club at McMaster University in 2013. Thanks to a three-year, grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, students in Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton will be engaged in exploring African cultures, ideas, philosophies and traditions.

Building tradmag has been an exceptionally rewarding experience for us. It feels like the thing we have been searching for all our lives. A place we can come to with our whole selves. I hope you find some of what you are looking for reading through these pages. Please support us. Read, engage, share, like subscribe.

Welcome to TRAD.

For Inquiries 

trad@tradmag.ca 

VALUES: 

• Building community - We exist to serve our community and communities. We want to build pride, self-efficacy, and confidence.

• Inclusivity and Respect -  We respect our audience, our colleagues. We respect individual voices, histories, and identities. Listen with an open mind, practice empathy and avoid arrogance.

• Intellectual honesty and curiosity - We don't know what we don't know. We rely on our elders, the guidance of our ancestors, and our community as we go on this journey of discovery. We expect our platform be the beginning of discovery,  and our readers take it upon themselves to learn more.

• Ecumenicalism - We are not committed to any singular intellectual tradition, spiritual tradition, or worldview but draw from multiple traditional and contemporary epistemology to develop deeper understanding of ideas, and a holistic appreciation of the capacity of the human spirit and imagination.

• Challenging conventional wisdom -Challenging conventional wisdom -We will open ourselves to a world of possibility. Sometimes it will be uncomfortable. We will see that our conventional wisdom is just conventional - that what we think is natural is merely cultural; temporal, not eternal; particular, not universal. We will explore how the world has existed in the past, and inquire if it possesses any tools we can repossess.