THE GLOBAL AFRICAN PRESENCE:
A NEW COURSE BY RUNOKO RASHIDI

Runoko Rashidi's Global Afrikan Presence Online Class

Class Begins Friday, June 20th, 2008!

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COURSE DESCRIPTION The Global African Presence, a new on-line course by Runoko Rashidi, focuses on Africans around the worldboth ancient and modern. It examines the Africanorigins and evolution of humanity, the Africanpresence in classical civilizations, and the presentlocations and conditions of African people. In thiscourse we will be using the words African and Blackinterchangeably, as synonyms. This includes Africansas the first modern humans, the subsequent migrationsand movements of African people out of Africa and thelater involuntary scattering of African people aroundthe world as the result of enslavement.

2. SYLLABUS WEEK 1 THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF HUMANITY AND CIVILIZATION Our first class begins with a look at the African Origins of Humanity and Human Culture. And then we trace the evolution of classical civilization in Africa, beginning in Central Africa, and examine Nile Valley Civilization, highlighting KMT (Ancient Egypt)--the world's greatest ancient nation.

WEEK 2 CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS AND THE BEGINNING OF THE DISPERSAL We look briefly at other African civilizations including Carthage, Axum, and the great West African civilizations. Then we plant the seeds for the beginnings of our global African travel excursion.

WEEK 3 THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA In week three of our course we look at the African presence in such places as the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Turkey,Pakistan and India--including an examination of theDalits--India's Black Untouchables.

WEEK 4 AFRICANS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, EAST ASIA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Here we cover a vast area that includes the peopling and civilizations of the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and China. Then we journey into the Dreamtime with the Aboriginal Australians andsail the islands of the Pacific in search of the African presence.

WEEK 5 THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EUROPE In this class we look at African people as the first people of Europe before we deal with African presence in Greek mythology, African popes and caesars and martyrs, Black Madonnas and African Saints, the mightyMoors, and great African intellectuals.

WEEK 6 THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAS AND AN OVERVIEW In our final class we look at the African peopling of the Americas, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and African resistance. We look at Africans throughout the Americas today and have a final summation of what we have covered. The textual basis of each class will be Dr. Rashidi's award winning Global African Presence Web Site.

Supplemental texts are the Ivan Van Sertima Journal ofAfrican Civilizations anthologies.

3. PRICE OF THE COURSE IS $125.00

4. LENGTH OF THE COURSE IS SIX WEEKS

5. LENGTH OF EACH CLASS IS NINETY MINUTES

Runoko Rashidi's Global Afrikan Presence Online Class