What We Offer: 

An African Indigenous Education on Pre-Colonial & Indigenous Africa & World History: From the Perspective of African Indigenous Peoples

Description:  

Through the lens of African Indigenous ways of learning, this program equips learners with the knowledge and skills to understand the origins and reasons of anti-Black racism and racism as documented by African Indigenous Peoples well over 6000 years ago.

It will inform learners of the perspectives of their African Indigenous Ancestors, from their ancestral and cultural location, about their Black racial identity and history outside what is found in the western academia.

Using an inquiry-based approach, learners will develop increasingly higher-order questions based on their topic of interest regarding precolonial and today's Indigenous Africa and its implications for the global world and our lives today.

Timeframe: Program entails 6 modules and can be completed in a week or as scheduled.

Who can attend: schools: students, teachers, educators, administrators & staff; also available as an online course to all individuals seeking to know themselves in relation to our world.

Program Locations: Interested schools; also available via video-conferencing.

Goals:

• To provide an understanding of Africa Indigenous peoples and to center African Indigenous knowledge and experience that conventional curriculum lacks.

• To establish a framework necessary to create an anti-oppressive grounding for inquiry-based learning and opportunity for healing.

• To help all learners understand who they are (question of Identity), where they are from (question of Origins), and what they are here to do (question of Purpose).

Learning Outcomes: 

All learners will learn and understand:

• The origins of anti-Black racism, racism and colonial histories.

• Everyone's connection to Indigenous and precolonial Africa in ways that informs their becoming, even today.

• Increase their sense of mental well-being and learn to navigate today's modern world.

Particularly, Learners of African descent:

• will better understand the greatness of their Ancestral Land and Ancestors.

• will affirm and embrace their African identity and build strategies including solutions/protection from anti-Black racism.

Program Outline:

From the perspectives of African Indigenous peoples, through these classes, educators and students learn about the following and more:

• Pre-colonial Africa before Africa was called Africa.

• Origins of anti-Black racism, racism, what it looks like, and why it will continue to exist.

• Correct spatial world map orientation in relation to Africa, its size, accurate description, and how its people moved around to be the first original people who inhabited the planet

• Africa, the heart of Humanity: regarding Africa’s origin of modern civilization

• African’s origin of Western education

• Affirming the African identity with lasting solutions to/and protection from anti-Black racism and racism from African Indigenous peoples' teachings

Program Benefits for Learner of African Descent and for All:

- A Measure of Success -

The measure of success to access the achievement of the prgram expectations/outcomes lies in the benefits and relevance of this program for students of African descent, and all students, in the words of Dr. Robinson (2009), is in its authority to evoke the Territorial Imperative as an absolute necessity for Black educators, youths and families to relate positively to the Land of their Ancestry where learning of their greatness and the greatness of their Ancestral Land and Ancestors provide for them three things: stimulation, security, and race esteem, with race esteem being the foundation for self-esteem. These pragmatic outcomes are significantly observed and intensely felt in students' expressions at all levels: elementary, secondary, and postsecondary, and even amongst professionals and administrators who participate as students in this course. These outcomes as a measure of the course success become values that further translate into practical skills that enable learners:

• Align with their African origins and Indigenous roots

• Find harmony in today's modern living

• Learn and preserve their unique Indigenous Ancestral identity

• Elevate their human qualities to be of value to themselves, their families, communities, and others

***All nations have Ancestral roots that they come to value and connect with after taking this program***

Mission:

At its core, this program, founded on the deep knowledge of Ancestral history, culture, values, and spirituality, goes beyond addressing anti-Black racism from its foundation but further into the knowledge of Indigenous Africa that will enable all learners reclaim their Ancestral strength and knowledge of self.

Goal:

"Culture is our immune system," is the teaching of our African Indigenous elders. Herein, to live and teach according to one’s culture is to build one’s immune system in order to survive and be preserved. Hence, learning, living, and teaching through the African Ancestral cultural lens to bring about greatness in educators, students, youths and families is the goal of these classes. 

"If all things began in Africa, would it be then, that knowing of the beginning will provide for us solutions for the now."

The importance of taking this course is in the remembering that “For you to be truly educated, you must know yourself” Mazama, (2016)." This program is for everyone who seek for development in the knowledge of self (who am I?) to be a better person as a student, administrator and professional.

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