Who Built This Classroom? — Complete Student Programme (All 5 Units + Teacher Guides)

Who built your classroom — and what did they build it to do?

This is the question that changes everything. Once an African student starts asking it — and following where it leads — they cannot be the same student they were before.

Who Built This Classroom? is a complete five-unit student programme developed by PowerAfrika as part of the Total Sovereignty Awareness (TSA) series. Designed for African secondary school students aged 15–18, it runs as an enrichment programme, extracurricular club, or structured series alongside the standard curriculum. It does not compete with examination preparation. It gives students the framework to understand what examinations cannot measure — and why that matters.

The five units

Unit 1 — Who Built This Classroom? Students examine the colonial curriculum — its origins, its design, its three operating mechanisms — and complete their first sovereign self-assessment.

Unit 2 — What Was Here Before? Students recover the African intellectual inheritance: the epistemologies of Ubuntu, Ma'at, and the Griot tradition; the civilisations of Kmt, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, and Nubia; and the models of sovereignty that survived colonialism.

Unit 3 — Who Told You That You Were Behind? The most personally demanding unit. Students name the internalised wound — the beliefs about African inferiority installed by the system — and encounter the evidence that dismantles them.

Unit 4 — What Does Sovereignty Look Like? Students build their personal Sovereign Gallery — eight historical portraits plus three personal entries — and identify the five dimensions of sovereignty in action.

Unit 5 — What Do You Do With This? Students apply the TSA questioning framework to their own curriculum, choose a culminating project (Sovereign Portrait, Personal Manifesto, or Community Interview), write their Personal Sovereign Manifesto, and sign the Sovereign Commitment.

What is included — 20 documents

Five student workbooks (PDF + DOCX) — print-ready, with write spaces, reflection boxes, self-assessment tables, discussion questions, and personal commitment sections throughout.

Five teacher facilitation guides (PDF + DOCX) — complete session plans with timed blocks, detailed facilitator notes, colour-coded call-out boxes (Facilitator Notes, Watch For This, Teaching Opportunities), supplementary reading lists, and post-programme guidance.

How it is used

Five sessions of 90–100 minutes, plus one session for culminating project presentations. Groups of 10–25 students. Weekly enrichment club, holiday intensive, or structured extracurricular programme. The teacher guides provide full guidance for all three formats.

Licensing

One purchase covers one school. Print as many student copies as needed for your students. Schools running the programme across multiple sites or seeking facilitator training should contact briefing@powerafrika.com for institutional pricing.

A note on pricing

This programme is priced with the African educational context in mind. If the suggested price is beyond your means, pay what you can — the minimum is $20. If you want to support the work and its reach into under-resourced schools, pay more. Either way, the programme is yours in full.

Who Built This Classroom? is part of the PowerAfrika Neo-Liberationism Series. © 2026 PowerAfrika.