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 Mechinical designer of the Kakakiki KombBrush, an African American hair care product that many would not live without. Mr. Howard began his career upon graduating from an Oakland, California famous McClymonds high school. When he did so, he bought a car and became an Oakland original low rider and headed off to Oakland Merritt Jr. College (birth of the first Black studies class in the USA), possibly the only low rider to do so at the time. He then chose to become a Black Nationalist and became involved in 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 Aero Space and Missile Div. and Oakland Kaiser Engineers. He was one of the first blacks to do so and took on a job as a mechanical designer and rapidly moved up to Assitant to Vice President and sat on the Advisory board of Kaiser Industries. As Mr. Howard never forgot the neighborhood he came from, he convinced the powers that be at Kaiser Engineers to allow him to recruit more blacks. He would do so by setting up an engineering drafting and summer hire program. These programs was designed by Mr. Howard and he then trained, interviewed and hired other young black men to join the program. This program covered everything from architectural, civil, mechanical, structural and piping engineering design disciplines.

Ed Howard and his brother Ernest then created a corporation which Ed was Vice President providing technical assitance to various community programs across the USA. This corporation had offices in Berkeley, California; Kansas City, Kansas and Washington, DC. Ed also produced a television show in San Francisco called "Black Dignity" for a period of two years. People like James Brown, Jim Brown, John Carlos and Tommy Smith, Ike and Tina Turner and many others appeared. 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 Frist Class Black nightclub at that time and in the Black community. This club was known as "Ed Howard's Place" and most of the famous named Black entertainers appeared.

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