African Studies Center

Lending Library for Educators

The African Studies Center has books and other materials available for teachers to borrow for their classes. Fiction and non-fiction works, for ages kindergarten through high school are available. If you would like to borrow any of these materials, please contact Stacey Sewall with your request. Search materials and view listings of available titles.

Senegal Culture Kit

Filled with hands on objects used in everyday life in Senegal, this kit was designed in consultation with K-12 educators. Also in the kit are instructions for games, art projects, and recipes. The kit is free to borrow for K-12 teachers and shipping is included. Detailed info and photos of all the objects, as well as ordering information, can be found on our Culture Kit page.

Resources

The ASC has gathered useful articles, maps, and online resources for K-12 and Community College faculty. Topics include: "Sufi Islam in Senegal," "Guidelines for Teaching World Cultures," and "Instructions for Creating a Google Earth Tour," as well as many others. Please visit our Outreach Resources page to view the materials or to suggest other materials you have found useful.

AFRI 101 for Teachers

The UNC-CH Department of African Studies offers an "Introduction to African Studies for Educators." This is a semester-long, full-credit, content-rich course designed for experienced, lateral entry, and pre-service teachers across the state, which provides knowledge of historical and contemporary Africa. Partial scholarships are available. Course Information


Events for Educators

Gender, Islam, and Health in Africa
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - Saturday, April 18, 2009, Fedex Global Education Center, Room 4003, UNC-CH
The ASC will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference on “Gender, Islam, and Health in Africa.” Funded through Title VI and more than 10 departments, colleges, and centers at UNC, this conference will assemble scholars and activists from the U.S. and Africa to participate in panels that will explore four different venues of public engagement for African Muslim women: literature, health, law, and politics. Participants will consider how, through expressive culture and institutions of civil society as well as government, Muslim women in Africa challenge local and global structures of power in attempts to deepen democratic space and to lay the foundation for the emergence of just societies. Keynote Address by Fatou Sow. Co-sponsors include: African Studies Center, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Global Initiatives, Women’s Studies, Curriculum in International Studies, Asian Studies, Institute for African American Research, Odum Institute, Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs, Carolina Women’s Center, and West African Research Association. Free. Please Contact: Barbara Anderson at b_anderson@unc.edu for more information.


Movie Tickets

The ASC has teamed with the Galaxy Theatre in Cary to provide Educators with free movie tickets to Africa-focused films. We'll keep you posted via the ASC Outreach Listserv on African films that are being shown. For more information and to request a free ticket, please contact Stacey Sewall.

Funding

Funding is periodically available to assist Educators with the costs of attending conferences, study trips, and related events. Approximately $1000 was awarded in 2008. Please check back for updated funding availability or join our Outreach Listserv to receive funding and program announcements.

Film Library

The ASC has films available for K-12 Educators and college faculty to borrow and is currently in the process of acquiring a larger library. Ordering Information and available titles.

Lesson Plans

In 2007, fifteen N.C. educators came together at a workshop sponsored by World View to discuss contemporary issues in Islamic Africa. The teachers created lesson plans for their students based on the content of the workshop. The lesson plans available here are those developed by the participants.