Dr. Runoko Rashidi's The Global African Presence Online: Early America, Australia and the Pacific.
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To enroll, please visit: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/runoko.php

The Global African Presence Online Workshop--the AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EARLY AMERICA, AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC

September 16 through September 18, 2011

Friday September 16--African Presence in Early America at 7:00 pm Eastern Standard Time

Saturday September 17 --Black Presence in Australia and the Pacific at 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time

Sunday September 18--Both workshops--African Presence in Early America and Black Presence in Australia and the Pacific--repeated at 10:00 am Eastern Standard Time

Location: Abibitumi Kasa Member Classroom http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php
Taught by: Dr. Runoko Rashidi
Organized by: Obadele Kwame Kambon

$35.00 for one workshop. $50.00 for both.
To pay for only one workshop, use the coupon code "runoko" all lowercase and without quotation marks during the checkout process.

Register Now for this unique and exciting workshop!!!

THE GLOBAL AFRICAN PRESENCE: A NEW COURSE BY RUNOKO RASHIDI

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The African Presence in Early America, Australia and the Pacific, a new online workshop by Runoko Rashidi, focuses on African people around parts of the world where their presence is significant but little know. It examines the African origins and evolution of humanity, the African presence in classical civilizations, and Africans and people of African descent who distinguished themselves against all odds. In these workshops we will be using the words African and Black interchangeably, as synonyms. This includes Africans as the first modern humans, the subsequent migrations and movements of African people out of Africa and the later involuntary scattering of African people around the world as the result of enslavement.

In the workshop on the African Presence in Early America we will look at African people as the Aboriginal people of America. We will look at Black people as the first people of the Americas. We will look at the African presence in classical American civilizations, including the Olmec, the Maya and the Moche. And we will look briefly at the African presence in the Colonial Americas and resistance to enslavement.

In the workshop on Australia and the Pacific we will look at Aboriginal Black people and early migrants from Africa. We will look at Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, the whole of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It will be based on both primary and secondary research.

Each workshop will feature sixty of Runoko Rashidi's finest photographs.

Recommended readings are Runoko Rashidi's Global African Presence Web Site.

The length of each workshop is approximately two hours

To access the online member classroom, you must register for the Abibitumi Kasa site at http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

You'll need to do this if you don't have an account already.

If you already have an account at the site, login at this link: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/login.php

From there click on the link to member classroom on any page at the site at class time or visit the link to the member classroom here directly at http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

Learn to hook up your audio and/or webcam for class and more at: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/video-tutorials-how-abibitumi-kasa/

Please contact Runoko Rashidi @ runoko@yahoo.com
with any questions or concerns prior to class




To access the online member classroom, you must register for the Abibitumi Kasa site at http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

You'll need to do this if you don't have an account already.

If you already have an account at the site, login at this link: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/login.php

From there click on the link to member classroom on any page at the site at class time or visit the link to the member classroom here directly at http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat.php and you'll be automatically logged in to the online classrooms page. From there proceed to your classroom.

To hear your instructor, click on the webcam/microphone icon to the right of his/her username on the right side of the classroom

Please contact Runoko Rashidi @ runoko@yahoo.com
with any questions or concerns prior to class