The Global Black History Online Course for Adults is an eight week course based on the best-selling book, How to Unlock Your Genius Using Black History.

This unique live course, uses narration, stunning graphics, video, multiple choice questions, group discussion (breakout rooms) and virtual tours.

Elements of the course (like the book) feature a fictitious couple, Percy and Priscilla, who use the wisdom and knowledge of Black history to help repair their relationship, and make them function as more complete human beings.

This course is for those who want to use Black African history for personal and community development.

Payment

Attendees are required to make a donation with a minimum payment being £7.50 per module.

The Zoom Links

The Zoom link will be sent out via email on the day of the event at 11am GMT and 5.30pm GMT. Please remember that the course follows the UK time system (GMT).

Course objectives:

1. To demonstrate research techniques on the understanding of global

Black history.

2. To introduce students to global Black history from 250,000 to

present.

3. To explore ways in which Black history supports current

community and personal development.

Course content:

Module 1: Free

What is Black History

The pioneers of Black History

Black history assessment

How to Become a Black History research activist.

Module 2: - Donation

The Black History timelines.

Black British timeline, starting 15,000 years ago

African migrations, languages, resources and writing scripts

Reading African artefacts, art and architecture.

Module 3: - Donation required

Zulu cosmology

Bantu cosmology

Yoruba cosmology

Igbo cosmology

Kamitic/Nubian cosmology

Module 4: - Donation required

Ancient Egypt and Nubia

Ancient Ethiopia

Ancient Indus Kush

Ancient Greece

Ancient America

Module 5: - Donation required

Early Christianity in Africa

Islam in Africa

East Africa Swahili Coast

Ghana, Mali and Songhai

The Forest Kingdoms

Module - Donation required

Arab and Transatlantic slavery

Enslaved communities and the Maroons

African resistance in Africa, Arabia, Caribbean and the Americas

Black abolitionists

Module 7: - Donation required

Colonialism in Africa

Black resistance in Namibia, Australia and Tasmania

Pan-Africanism

Marcus Garvey and the UNIA

Post-traumatics slave syndrome

Module 8: - Donation required

Co-operatives, Black self-help and susu

Harlem renaissance and Negritude

Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement

Independence struggles and the psychology of racism

The New Pan-Africanism

Black Lives Matter Movement

About Simon Education

This course is led by the UK's black award winning educationalist, David Simon. David is the author of How to Unlock Your Genius Using Black History, How to Unlock Your Child's Genius, How to Unlock Your Family's Genius, and How to Homeschool Your Child. David Simon is founder of Simon Education Online School, that has delivered over 4000 hours of online tuition and teacher-training to African and Caribbean teachers, and the winner of several education and literary awards.

Simon Education are the creators of the SEADS project (see video below) that supports schools in the Caribbean and Africa by providing them with free educational resources and teacher training. Simon Education is also the creators and lead trainers for the Start Your Own Education Business that shows individuals how to start and run their own education business aimed at African-Caribbean students.

Each year Simon Education stages the Online Black Book Festival and the Kwanzaa Family Fest.

Link to purchase the book, How to Unlock Your Genius Using Black History

Donations to schools in Africa and the Caribbean

If you wish to donate to our SEADS Project that provides educational resources and teacher training to schools in Africa and the Caribbean, please click here to access our wish list of resources that are then sent directly to us. We will then forward the resources to the relevant schools. Donation link.