About the Inventor

If you are at all familiar with the SLAVE SYSTEM MOVEMENT, you most likely have heard the name Ed Howard. Mr. Howard is the inventor and designer of the Kakakiki Comb Brush, an African American hair care product that many would not live without. Mr. Howard began his career upon graduating from the famous Oakland, California McClymonds high school. When he did so, he bought a car and became an Oakland original low rider and headed off to college, possibly the only low rider to do so at the time. He then chose to become a Black Nationalist and became involved in his community affairs. (Click here to read up on the Slave System www.kakakiki.com/kakakiki ).

After college, Ed Howard moved on to work for Lockheed Missile & Space and Oakland Kaiser Engineers. He was one of a few blacks to do so at that time and took on a job as a Mechanical Designer. As Mr. Howard never forgot the neighborhood he came from West Oakland, he convinced the powers that be at Kaiser Engineers to allow him to recruit more blacks for employment training. He would do so by setting up an engineering drafting program. This program was designed by Mr. Howard and he then trained, interviewed and hired other young black men to be part of the program. This program covered architectural, structural, civil, mechanical, instrumentation layout and piping configuration engineering.

Ed Howard and his brother created a consulting corporation which he was Vice President. This corporation had offices in Berkeley, California, Kansas City, Kansas and Washington, DC. He also produced a television show in San Francisco called Black Dignity for a period of two years. This was due in large part to his involvement with the Black Nationalist movement. His next career move was to go Super-fly and build Oakland's biggest Black nightclub at that time. This club was known as Ed Howard's Place.

Mr. Howard didn't stop there though. Rather he chose to make the transition to San Diego where he started EH Engineering. His company was an electromechanical engineering firm which specialized in problems solving as well as research and development contracts for the Department of Defense. Not only did he use Reverse Engineering to invent solutions, they also used Configuration Engineering documentation methods. The Kakakiki Comb Brush is just one example of his work and one African American hair care product that should not be ignored.