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NU AFRICAN CALENDAR End of the World 12.21.2012 based on the Mayan Calendar Round Beginning 02.21.1517 of the Nu African Calendar Unbound In the Mayan Calendar there is a long cycle referred to as the long count of 5,126 years that begins with the creation of the world. Accordingly, the world began on August 11, 3114 BCE and ends on so ends on December 21, 2012. Forget about the Mayan Calendar and the end of the world in December 21, 2012 C.E.! Obviously, if you are reading this you are still here. Other Ancient Calendars like the Egyptian Calendar moves the world beyond this date. The Nu African Calendar not only moves the African world well beyond this dooms date, but also provides the Nu African People with a modern 21st Century African calendrical system that is grounded in the history and traditions of the Nu African People. In this work Dr2 Dia Sekou Mari-Jata and Nsibidi Scribe (https://nisibidiscribe.africa) introduces the Nu African Calendar, an exciting and original work. The Nu African Calendar may prove to be the most astonishing, far-reaching and creative work the 21st Century has yet seen. Despite the hype about the end of the end of the world and auto-apocalypse in 2012, based on the end-date of the Mayan Calendar, the Nu African Calendar extends that time into the 22nd Century, that is, 2104 C.E., in a note of optimism, based on the fact that Jesus declared : "But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone (Mark 13:32, NAS). Dr2 Dia Mari-Jata has created the first modern black civil numeric perpetual calendar since the invention of the ancient Ta-Merry [Egyptian] Calendar created in the year 4236 B.C.E. The ancient Ta-Merry Calendar was the first ever civil-numeric calendar used by man. The ancient Ta-Merry Calendar had its development rooted in the history, and experiential needs of the black people living in the Nile Valley. Likewise, the Nu African Calendar is rooted in the experiential phenomena, which is the history, experience, and needs of the African-African People in the American Hemisphere may be used by black people the world over. The Nu African Calendar is the first concrete unilateral cultural expression of black peoples need for self-determination, according to author Dia Mari-Jata, since the creation and founding of the African-American holiday Kwanzaa, according to the author. Mari-Jata also believes that like Kwanzaa, the Nu African Calendar has the potential to become institutionalized in the lives, and cultural celebrations of the African-American People in the entire American Hemisphere, and even in Africa. In sharing his vision for the Nu African Calendar, author Dia Mari-Jata has spared no effort in its development, that is, to bring to the Nu African reader a book which explains the origin, philosophy, theory and mathematical foundation of the calendar. The reader will find that author has developed a distinctly African-American centered calendar with its own calendrical system, base year, mathematical formulation, and theoretical discussion on black conceptions of time and place, coming out of black peoples need for black autonomy and black self-determination. The book also includes calendar facsimiles extending over 100 years into the African-American future, from 2000 A.D to 2104 A.D., well into the 22nd Century. The author believes the whole conception of the calendar is inspired because of the unique features inherent to it that were not even planned, as if God, and our black ancestors were guiding the production. One such feature is that the base year beginning with the February 21, which is the date of martyrdom of Shahidi Malcolm X, in the Month of Afu, i.e. “Month of Deliverance” culminates precisely with the Month of Kwanza, i.e. “First Month of Harvest” such that the first day of this month begins the seven-day period of Kwanzaa celebration, from December 26 through January 1. This fortunate “calendrical coincidence” makes the Nu African Calendar even more a unique contemporary work grounded in the history and experience of the African-American people. African-Americans adopting the Nu African Calendar will find it has practical use in their homes and offices because its date points, that is, its Nu African days and months are keyed accurately to the Gregorian Euro-American Calendar all people use daily. For black cultural enthusiasts and historians. The Nu African Calendar is keyed accurately to the ancient Egyptian Calendar as well as the modern Ethiopian Orthodox Calendar. African-Americans using the Nu African Wall Calendar (in the planning stages) will be produced each year based on the facsimiles found in the Book. Here the reader will find all of the black cultural holidays and celebrations, including Kwanzaa, Juneteenth i.e. JunJun, National Malcolm X Day, African Liberation Day, Black History Month. Who knows one day the African Union and its African states may find the Nu African Calendar technically and culturally useful to include in its 2063 Agenda as an important contribution from its Sixth Region among the black diaspora.