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Afrocentric Homeschooling Booklist (many of the titles below wre reccommended by AHA members)

The Adinkra dictionary: A Visual Primer on the Language of Adinkra by W. Bruce Willis

African American Desk Reference -

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor)

Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across Disciplines by Toyin
Falola and Christian Jennings
(amazon.com)

Black Athena - Martin Bernal

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia - 2 Volume set by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor), Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Editor), Elsa B. Brown (Editor)

Center Shift: An African-Centered Approach for the Multicultural Curriculum by J.D. Ratteray Washington D.C. Institute for Independent Education, 1990 (http://www.ifie.org/centershift.html)

Dictionary of Global Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Science, Health, and Medicine (Vol 11) by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor), Kathleen Thompson (Editor), in Facts on File

Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered Education by Kwame Agyei Akoto Pan-Afrikan World Institute, 1992 (afrikandieli.com)

Positive Afrikan Images for Children: A Social Studies Curriculum by Council of Independent Black Institutions (CIBI) Red Sea Press, 1990

Sacred Fire: The QBR (Quarterly Black Review) 100 Essential Black Books by Max Rodriguez and Angeli Rasbury

Teaching African-American Literature by Marianna White Davis, Maryemma Graham and Sharon Pineault-Burke

The African-American Bookshelf: 100 Must-Reads from Before the Civil War through Today by Clifford Mason

Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education: A Paradox of Black Life in White Societies by Mwalimu J. Shujaa Africa World Press, 1994 (African World)

Van Sertima books:
They Came Before Columbus, Black Women in Antiquity

Web-based bookstores:
Abe Books , Amazon
Bookstores online:
A Different Booklist (Canadian)
Other Afrocentric learning material for children:
Ashanti Room
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University Admission

Those without the traditional records of education can usually gain entrance to a university by entering its mature students program. This usually consists of 1 year study, the completion of which earns one's place in the university as an undergraduate desgree student. Some universities allow homeschooled students who are not yet of "mature age status" to begin their studies.
University of Toronto -
Pre-U program (age 20 yrs +), TYP
York University -
Mature Students (age 21 yrs +)
Ryerson Polytechnic University -
Mature Students (age 21 yrs +)
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Homeschooling families on the Net

The Parker Family (their Black Heritage links page)
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