Reading Revolution: Reconnecting the Roots (Volume I) ($20)
Chike Akua with
Co-author Tavares Stephens
We can increase and improve reading comprehension and cultural consciousness at the same time!
•90 engaging high-interest reading selections
•Standardized test format with multiple choice questions
•Topic and main idea, supporting details and sequencing
•Vocabulary development and context clues
•Making inferences and drawing conclusions
"Chike Akua and Tavares Stephens combine excellent teaching skills, deep knowledge of African history and culture, and, as master teachers, a real grasp of students interest and thinking. Reading Revolution is an oustanding product of this mixture, and hence a rare value for schools."
-Asa G. Hilliard III - Nana Baffour Amankwatia II, Ed.D
A Treasure Within: Stories of Remembrance & Rediscovery ($15)
A Treasure Within is a book of short stories in which young people have encounters with ancient African Ancestors to learn traditional morals, values, and culture. It is a resource which continues to develop academic skills and cultivate character development as well as cultural awareness. ($15)
"A Treasure Within is the book that many of us have been waiting for. The deep thinking of African is grasped and communicated clearly through these three powerful stories...I am thankful for this outstanding contribution to our mental and spiritual liberation."
-Asa G. Hilliard III - Nana Baffour Amankwatia II, Ed.D
A Treasure Within: Parent/Teacher Resource Guide ($15)
The accompanying Parent/Teacher Resource Guide is a complete companion curriculum that can be used to do extra activities related to the stories in A Treasure Within. These activities are designed to improve reading comprehension, writing, and grammar skills.
"A Treasure Within is a remarkable collection of stories with a broad appeal to all youth. The stories instruct, develop moral character, adn entertain at the same time. The accompanying Parent/Teacher Resource Guide is a great and useful addition to this wonderful collection."
Dr. William Hammond, Reading Instructional Corrdinator
Dekalb County Schools, Atlanta, Georgia
WORDS OF POWER: Ancient Insights & Modern Messages for Parents, Teachers and Students ($25)
This book contains almost two hundreds quotes and proverbs from African people and powerful people all over the world. Use this wonderful resource to teach our children much of the mother wit and wisdom that we grew up on but that many of our youth are not getting today. Additionally it contains fill-in worksheets so that students can engage in a words of wisdom treasure hunt.
A Kwanzaa Awakening: Lessons for the Community ($20)
This book contains lessons for every grade level, including:
*A brief history of Kwanzaa & Libation Ceremony
*A 3-act play & Poetry Section
*Kwanzaa classroom activities, Worksheets, a quiz, and a test
*Lessons for the Little Ones (primary grades)
*Coloring activities
"Through A Kwanzaa Awakening, Akua provides ways for us to value the lives of our children and ways to teach them who they are as children with a rich African heritage. This book ...challenges us to train our children in ways that will affirm our past and secure our future."
James C. Anyike, M.Div.
Author, African American Holidays
The African Origins Of Writing & Mathematics DVD ($25)
"You cannot change the actions of a people until you change the images of a people." (John H. Johnson)
Join Chike Akua on a riveting journey which visually documents the African origins of reading and writing, language and literature, mathematics and much, much more. Filmed live in front of an audience of high school students.
•Who wrote the oldest complete text in the world?
•Was America built using African knowledge?
•What is the oldest mathematics textbook?
*Includes live footage of Chike Akua in Egypt!
African Sacred Science DVD ($25)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, viewing this DVD is like digesting a 70,000 page book! The images Chike Akua shares in this presentation visually document the African origins of the scientific science and technology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, astronomy, and medicine, and much, much more
•Did ancient African people write about and practice the scientific
method and advanced medicine?
•Did African people create some of the world’s most magnificent
architectural feats?
•How did ancient Africans align their temples and other structures to star systems that NASA only recently discovered?
•What African and African American scientists, doctors, and researchers are carrying on this legacy of excellence and achievement?
*Recorded LIVE at Tuskegee University's 7th Annual Biomedical Symposium!
