Pedagogical orienation

Pedagogical Orientation to History : 

Pedagogical Orientation to History The African Factor in the Classroom Molefi Kete Asante www.asante.net

Origin of Africans in America : 

Origin of Africans in America Identify the Names of Five African Ethnic Groups That Were Brought to the Americas What was the first region of the Americas to Receive Large Numbers of Africans? What Country has the largest population of Africans in the Americas?

Teaching about Africa in History : 

Teaching about Africa in History All of Africa Sub-Saharan Middle East Human Origins Balancing Commonalities and Diversities

Myths about Africa : 

Myths about Africa Does African have tigers? Did Hannibal’s army train elephants? Africa is too hot and damp for most people Africa is dangerous Africa has no history All Africans are the same

Common Values : 

Common Values Fertility Ancestors Character Agrarian Values Collectivity/Individuality Destiny Maat/balance, harmony, order

Geographical Facts : 

Geographical Facts 1. Size of African continent 11,732, 717 sq. miles against the US 3,593, 387. Excluding Alaska, U.S. is 3,022, 387 sq miles. 2. Put U.S. inside Africa nearly four times without Alaska, three times with Alaska. 3. Texas is large with 267, 339 sq. miles, but Sudan is 977, 499 and Congo is 904,991. South Africa is 472, 359 and Tanzania is 363, 708.

African Languages : 

African Languages Most Prolific Area in the World for Languages More than 300 Bantu Languages More than 1800 African Languages in Total Hausa, Kiswahili, Lingala, Yoruba, Xhosa are large languages

Cities of Africa : 

Cities of Africa Lagos, Ibadan, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Nairobi Each over ten million in population! A continent of growing urban areas

Additional Pieces of Information : 

Additional Pieces of Information The Sahara is not a Barrier to Africans The Congo is the Purest Big River in the World Africans were the first to write All 6 billion people are descended from Africans.

The European Slave Trade : 

The European Slave Trade Most European Nations Involved Lasted from 1444 to 1807 Thousands of Ships, Sailors, and Agents Millions of Africans Enslaved

Nature of Slavery : 

Nature of Slavery It was not an African Initiative It was a European Initiative Ships, Sailors, Insurance and Profits No Slave Society in West Africa No Chattel Slavery Existed in Africa No Slavery in Southern Africa

Ethnic Groups : 

Ethnic Groups Yoruba, Congo, Hausa, Fulani, Mandinka, Wolof, Serere, Touculour, Fante, Asante, Akyem, Ga, Ewe, Bamun, Bamileke, Peul, Ngola

African Traditions : 

African Traditions Religious Social Cultural Economic

Loss of Memory : 

Loss of Memory Slaves are not born Slaves are made Loss of Memory Loss of Names Loss of Languages Loss of Values

Regaining Memory : 

Regaining Memory African Civilization Writing, Architecture, Religious, and Memory Geometry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Philosophy, Architecture, Medicine, the Calendar

The Afrocentric Idea : 

The Afrocentric Idea Thales Imhotep Socrates Ptahhotep Plato Amenemhat Aristotle Akhenaten Parthenon Karnak Shakespeare Amadou Bamba Victoria Hatshepsut Joan of Arc Nehanda

Terms of Concern : 

Terms of Concern Hottentot Bushman Classical Hut

Africans for Freedom : 

Africans for Freedom David Walker Phillis Wheatley Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Charles Remond Frederick Douglass

Independence and Africans : 

Independence and Africans Crispus Attucks Peter Salem Salem Poor The Halifax Connection 1787 Constitutional Convention Where and What?

Journey to Liberation : 

Journey to Liberation Elevate the Names of Heroes Forgotten in American History Nat Turner Marcus Garvey Robert Williams Fannie Lou Hamer

The Critical Organizations : 

The Critical Organizations Early NAACP Congress of Racial Equality Southern Christian Leadership Council Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee US organization Black Panthers Urban League Deacons for Defense

Infuse Key African American Initiatives : 

Infuse Key African American Initiatives Public Schools Free Highways Robert Smalls’ Sailing out of Charleston Harriet Tubman’s Rescues 186,000 Soldiers for Civil War 761st Tank Battalion Mae Jemison and others Inventors

Jo’burg : 

Jo’burg

Lagos : 

Lagos

Tswane : 

Tswane

Nairobi : 

Nairobi

Downtown Nairobi : 

Downtown Nairobi

Accra : 

Accra

Abidjan : 

Abidjan

Cairo : 

Cairo

Dakar : 

Dakar

Kinshasa : 

Kinshasa

Cape Town : 

Cape Town

Harare : 

Harare

Queen Tiye : 

Queen Tiye 18th Dynasty