How Do You Start Homeschooling African History?
Shaka Zulu led a tribe of people into a military force feared in southeast Africa and there are hundreds more trailblazers of African history. Sharing African history with computer based homeschoolers can enrich a student’s imagination with culture, language, lands and people more diverse than anything imaginable. Learning snippets of various music and an African warrior dance is guaranteed to be a fun part of any homeschool lesson plan. Develop a lesson plan for the semester. A good introduction to African history can be to first get the students to learn all the 54 different countries in Africa. From there you can divide the continent up into four different parts; North, South, East and West Africa. You should include something about the ancient kingdoms in Egypt and the first university city in the world, Timbuktu. Children love reading about the pyramids and mummies so this shouldn’t be a hard sell. Have your students look at a map that depicts what parts of Africa that was coloniz
