MAAFA | The West African Holocaust
This course will explore the historical accounts of the 500-year African-centered exploitation of the African continent and its people. MAAFA is a Kiswahili term for “terrible occurrence” or “great disaster”, referring to the ‘Black Holocaust’ when millions of Africans died during the journey of captivity from the west coast of Africa to the shores of America, specifically known as the ‘Middle Passage’. The ancestors of Africans in modern-day died in the belly of slave ships or choose death by jumping into the sea rather than live in captivity.
The course is bounded by an affirmative framework in which students will
1) obtain an overview of the African worldview and the history, culture, and contributions to world civilization of African-descended people;
2) become familiar with literature that exemplifies the integration of the African-centered perspective in practice with African-descent clients; and
3) demonstrate the application of knowledge gained.
Throughout the course, students examine values and ethics, as well as issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, religion, and ability as these, relate to interpersonal practice with African families and families of African-descent.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Explain the pre-colonization and pre-enslavement history and contributions of indigenous
African people – Ma’at (Module 1)
2. Explain the history and residual effects of colonization, enslavement, and continued
oppression on Black people – Maafa (Module 1)
3. Explain traditional African Affirmative values and principles (i.e. African-centered worldview
or perspective) and their potential or implications for the healing of the residual
effects of historical and contemporary race-based oppression (Sankofa) (Module 2)
4. Demonstrate the integration of the student’s current knowledge of African-Affirmative
values and principles with the student’s historical experience as it relates to African descent
people. (Module 2)
5. Discuss the elements (principles and methods) of at least one published theory-based
model of African Affirmative (African-centered) social work practice (Module 3)
6. Describe a published example of the application of African Affirmative/African-centered
practice in each of four methods concentration areas – interpersonal, community, nonprofit
management, and social policy and evaluation. (Module 3)
7. Describe actual or planned application of African Affirmative/African-centered practice
to a case study situation in your chosen method and practice concentration areas. (Module
3)
8. Discuss the African-centered worldview or perspective from a broader social justice
standpoint (beyond people of African descent) (Module 3)
COURSE CONTENT:
The course builds on theoretical and practice-related concepts associated with African-centered
social work and related disciplines. African Americans are considered as having their source in
the highest forms of health and excellence. Behavioral and social problems are understood within
the context of the social devastation suffered historically and contemporarily by African descent
people throughout the diaspora. The therapeutic intervention involves a cleansing of these effects
and a return to families’ original inspirational source of health and excellence.
GOALS FOR THE COURSE:
Students will commit to and demonstrate the application of African-centered/African
Affirmative knowledge, values, and skills to facilitating the goal attainment of African-descent
clients (at all levels of practice) who present for services.
Course Curriculum
| Section 1: Introduction | |||
| MAAFA Introduction | 00:20:00 | ||
| African Holocaust | FREE | 02:00:00 | |
| Enslaved Narratives | 00:35:00 | ||
| Negroe Spirituals | 00:30:00 | ||
| Maafa Introduction Quiz | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2: African Enslavement ( Past & Present ) | |||
| Enslavement in North America | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3: Black Abolitionists - Negro Convention Movement | |||
| Introduction to Abolitionism | 00:00:00 | ||
| Frederick Douglass: The Black Abolitionist | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Missouri Compromise | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Seneca Falls Convention | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harriet Beecher Stowe: Abolitionist Author | 00:00:00 | ||
| John Brown: Abolitionism’s Fiery Crusader | 00:00:00 | ||
| Dred Scott V. Sanford | 00:00:00 | ||
| Abraham Lincoln: Abolitionist President of USA | 00:00:00 | ||
| The 13th Amendment: Abolitionism Movement Triumphs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Global Black Abolitionists | |||
| Revolutionary Abolitionists of Haiti | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 4: Enslaved African Revolts | |||
| Haitian Revolution | 00:00:00 | ||
| Quilombo dos Palmares | 00:00:00 | ||
| Tacky’s War of 1760 | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Bahia Rebellion | 00:00:00 | ||
| St. John’s Slave Rebellion | 00:00:00 | ||
| Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion | 00:00:00 | ||
| New York Slave Revolt of 1712 | 00:00:00 | ||
| German Coast Uprising | 00:00:00 | ||
| 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 5: Children of West Africa | |||
| Section 6: Enslavement Monuments | |||
| Section 7: Neo-Colonialism and Imperialism | |||
| Section 8: Extroduction | |||
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