and Kemet as the classical Afrikan civilisations upon which liberated Afrikan institutions would be built. Carruthers heeded the advice of Diop and immediately threw himself towards the task of learning the ancient language of Kemet, Mdw Ntr, so as to have a direct access to the ancient sources, while urging others to do likewise as a matter of urgency. This led to the establishment of several key Afrikan-centered study group movements. The Kemetic Institute and ASCAC With a solid grounding in the understanding of the cultural unity of Afrika and a command in the classical Afrikan language, Carruthers became instrumental, among a team of other Afrikan-centered scholars, in creating an Afrikan-centered context for the systematic studying of Afrikan history with the objective of raising Afrikan institutions from the rescued knowledge. In 1978 Carruthers and the African-centered research team composed of A. Josef Ben Levi, Anderson Thompson and Conrad Worrill founded the Kemetic Institute. This organization was born to address the need for serious restoration-driven search by Afrikans on the Classical Afrikan civilizations of Kush and Kemet. Carruthers, as the founding director of the Institute, consistently clarified that the institution was to serve as the springboard for Afrikan-centered institution building by proving the knowledge-base from which other institutions could be nourished. In February 1984, Carruthers along with John Henrik Clark, Asa Grant Hilliard, Leonard Jeffries, Yosef Ben-Jochannan and Maulana Karenga founded the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) at the First Annual Ancient Egyptian Studies Conference in Los Angeles, California, of which Carruthers was elected the first president. Personal life Carruther was married to Mama Ifé Carruthers with whom he had three sons, Jacob III, Darnell and Christopher, and a daughter, Tawakalitu Jogunosimi. Death Jacob Carruthers died on January 4, 2004, of pancreatic cancer in his Chicago home at the age of 73. Bibliography Intellectual warfare Third World Press. 1999. With Maulana Karenga (ed) 1986. Kemet and the African Worldview: Research, Rescue and Restoration. University of Sankore Press. References External links Bibliography of work African Within 1930 births 2004 deaths American pan-Africanists African-American academics 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people