The AI Curriculum Platform Spanning Africa's Story — Ancient to Modern
Ashaware is an AI-powered K–12 curriculum platform — a searchable library of 400,000+ lesson plans built with AI, indexed to curriculum standards across 10+ jurisdictions including African education systems, and rooted in the complete story of African civilization and its global diaspora: from ancient mathematical and scientific foundations to modern-day contributions in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. Created by Black Board International. The only platform of its kind.
Centuries of colonial-era mis-education have failed African students and the diaspora alike — and every student worldwide who inherited a distorted view of human history. Ashaware corrects that, spanning the full timeline from ancient civilization to the present day. 400,000+ curriculum-indexed lesson plans across 11 subjects, pre-built across 8 reading levels from Kindergarten through Higher Education.
Used in paying schools, universities, homes, libraries, community organizations, and non-profits across Africa, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and the global diaspora. Ministry-ready licensing available for national and regional rollout. Approved vendor on the Choice Partners National Purchasing Cooperative for US institutions.
Ready to bring Ashaware to your schools, district, or country?
Ashaware partners with ministries of education across Africa for national and regional licensing, and is a Choice Partners approved vendor for US institutions — no competitive bid required. Use Title I, Title IV-A, NSF STEM grants, Perkins CTE, state and national curriculum budgets to fund your subscription, in Africa, the US, Canada, or the Caribbean.
- Ministry & national licensing available across Africa
- Choice Partners cooperative — EDGAR / 2 CFR 200 compliant
- 18 federal funding programs covered (US)
- Dr. Michael T. Conner, Ed.D. — Education Advisor available
Looking for curriculum that teaches the complete story — ancient to modern?
Ashaware gives every teacher and family instant access to a searchable library of 400,000+ lesson plans rooted in African heritage and the global diaspora — spanning ancient civilizations through modern-day achievement, across 11 subjects, 8 reading levels, and every grade from Kindergarten through Higher Education. Search, find, teach — in seconds.
- Standards-aligned — African, Caribbean & North American systems
- 8 reading levels — every learner in the room, reached
- Home & Family plan — $4.99/month or $59.99/year
- School, district & non-profit pricing — see all plans
- 11 interactive African math games — STEM curriculum, Gr K–12
Colonial Curriculum Harmed Africa and Its Diaspora. The Full Story Deserves to Be Told Truthfully.
Every student across Africa, the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean who has ever sat in a classroom built on a colonial-era syllabus has been mis-educated about African civilization. The gaps, distortions, and omissions in standard K–12 curriculum produce generations of learners disconnected from the mathematics, science, art, and history that span from ancient Africa to the achievements of today's diaspora.
Ashaware is built to fix that — grounded in Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Ladson-Billings), Culturally Responsive Teaching (Geneva Gay), and the research-backed principle that accurate, African-rooted curriculum improves outcomes for every student in the room. No additional professional development required. Classroom-ready from day one.
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Built on Proven Educational Frameworks
Ashaware operationalizes the frameworks that African and global educators, administrators, and equity advocates already know — and turns them into instant classroom practice.
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP)
Ashaware delivers lesson plans that connect academic content to students' cultural backgrounds — building academic success, cultural competence, and critical consciousness simultaneously. Every lesson is an act of CRP.
Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)
Ashaware equips teachers with culturally responsive content without requiring additional professional development. A searchable library of 400,000+ pre-built, curriculum-aligned lessons — immediately accessible, no prep required — giving every teacher CRT capability from day one.
Curriculum Mandate Compliance
Ashaware is aligned to national and regional curriculum frameworks across Africa, alongside Black history and ethnic studies mandates in Illinois, California, New York, Ontario, and more. Standards-mapped and licensing-ready for ministries and districts alike.
Student Identity & Belonging
Research consistently shows students perform better when they see themselves in the curriculum. Ashaware affirms African students' identity in their own classrooms — and builds accurate, respectful understanding everywhere else it is taught.
Built first for Africa and its global diaspora. Most African school systems still teach from frameworks inherited from colonialism — students learning their own history, mathematics, and science through a foreign lens. The same gap shows up in classrooms across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean, where the diaspora's full story — ancient to modern — rarely makes it into the syllabus. Ashaware was built to put that true, continuous story back at the center of every classroom it reaches. Accuracy is not a foreign import. It is a quality standard owed to every student of African descent, everywhere.
Some of Our Subjects...
We currently offer fun, educational and interactive content in 10 different subject areas:
Alphabet
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Age 2 - 6 Years
Here is a fun and engaging way to introduce early learners to the exciting world of letters.
Numbers
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Age 2 - 6 Years
Learning to count is one of the greatest gifts you can give a growing mind.
Library
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Age 3 - Adult
Our Library includes hundreds of books and literacy resources...
History
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Age 10 - Adult
The more we know about our history, the more we know about ourselves.
Math
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Age 10 - Adult
Here's a great way to learn about the contributions to the field of mathematics...
Science
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Age 10 - Adult
With the growing predominance of technology in our changing world, knowledge of science becomes even more important to today's learner...
Our Success
For years, our software has successfully been used internationally in schools, universities, homes, libraries, and organizations across Africa and the diaspora.
AI Lesson Plans Generated
Subject Areas
Reading Levels K–Higher Ed
Curriculum Standards
What's Inside Ashaware
A searchable library of 400,000+ lesson plans — built with AI, indexed to curriculum standards, and pre-adapted across 8 reading levels from Kindergarten through Higher Education. 11 subjects spanning ancient civilization to modern-day achievement. 11 interactive African math games rooted in 20,000 years of African mathematical heritage. Built for African ministries, schools, and families across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean, and organizations worldwide.
Standards-Mapped Lesson Plans
A library of 400,000+ pre-built lesson plans rooted in the complete history of African civilization — built with AI, curriculum-mapped to national, state, and provincial standards, pre-filtered by grade, and classroom-ready in seconds. Search and access instantly — no generation wait, no variability.
Powered by Leading AI
Ashaware's content library was built using Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT — each lesson plan AI-authored, curriculum-indexed, and stored in a searchable database. Users access a curated, consistent library. No real-time AI generation interface, no prompt engineering required, no variability in quality. The AI worked upstream so your teachers don't have to.
Kindergarten Through Higher Ed
Every lesson plan covers the full educational journey — from early learners through post-secondary. One platform for every stage.
Ancient to Modern — One Continuous Story
African civilizations, the diaspora across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean, and modern-day achievements — accurate, engaging, and curriculum-mapped across all grade levels, spanning from ancient history to the present.
Language Arts, SEL & Careers
Reading, writing, social-emotional learning, and career exploration — all grounded in African heritage and the cultural truth that improves engagement and outcomes for every learner.
African Heritage Book Library
Hundreds of curated books on African and African diaspora history, culture, and contributions — each with pre-built lesson plans and curriculum standards mapping layered on top, authored using AI and stored in the platform.
Science & Music
African contributions to science and music — from ancient astronomical knowledge to the global influence of African musical traditions.
Social Studies
African and diaspora communities, civics, governance, and cultural identity — taught with accuracy and depth.
Alphabet & Numbers
Fun, engaging early learning — introducing young learners to letters and numbers through African heritage content from the very start. Identity and accuracy, built in from day one.
8 Reading Levels — One Click
Every lesson is automatically rewritten across 8 reading levels. One content input. Eight differentiated outputs. Every learner in the room, reached.
Early Learning to Middle School
Kindergarten, Grade 2, Grade 4, and Grade 6 levels — age-appropriate language, vocabulary, and structure for developing readers.
High School to Higher Education
Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 12, and Higher Education levels — academic depth and rigour for secondary and post-secondary learners.
Oware / Wari
An ancient African strategy game — counting, strategy, and arithmetic through one of the world's oldest board games, played across the continent for 7,000+ years.
Hyena Chase
Strategy and probability rooted in North African tradition. Multiplayer, browser-based. Teaches critical thinking and mathematical reasoning through play.
Tsoro Yematatu
Traditional strategy of the Shona people of Zimbabwe — placement and movement on a compact grid. Spatial reasoning and pattern thinking through African tradition.
3 in a Row / Morabaraba
A traditional strategy game played across many African countries for hundreds of years — blocking, placement, and combinatorial thinking on an ancient board.
Square Network
Traditional strategy of the Asante people of Ghana — network building, spatial logic, and geometric thinking rooted in West African cultural heritage.
The River Crossing
A logic puzzle from the Kpelle people of Liberia — a West African riddle solved through systematic logical reasoning and step-by-step problem decomposition.
The Ishango Bone
An ancient mathematical mystery — arithmetic foundations through the world's oldest mathematical artifact, 20,000 BC, DR Congo.
Sand Drawing
A traditional drawing game from the DR Congo — tracing continuous paths through geometric patterns, exploring symmetry, topology, and spatial reasoning.
Eye of Horus
Sacred fractions of Ancient Egypt — the Eye of Horus symbol and its mathematical meaning, connecting Egyptian mythology to fractions, ratios, and ancient measurement.
Pyramid Math Quest
The mathematics of Giza — extraordinary engineering and mathematical precision behind the Great Pyramids, connecting geometry, measurement, and ancient African science.
Ancient Egyptian Dice Sticks
People in ancient Egypt created a fun game using special dice sticks — exploring probability, chance, and number sense through the play of the ancient world.
African National & Regional Curricula
Ashaware actively maps to national and regional curriculum frameworks across Africa, working directly with ministries of education for licensing and rollout — built on the same content library that serves the diaspora in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.
Ontario & Nova Scotia
Mapped to Ontario K-12 curriculum standards — supporting TDSB, TCDSB, and boards across the province. Nova Scotia curriculum alignment included, supporting one of Canada's most diverse student populations.
NYC, Illinois & California
NYC DOE PK-12 Black Studies curriculum, Illinois Black History Education Act (852 districts), and California AB 101 & SB 510 Ethnic Studies — all curriculum-mapped and ready to deploy.
Caribbean Standards
CSEC-aligned content for the Caribbean, sharing the same African-rooted heritage curriculum used across the continent and growing with every new market entered.
10+ Standards & Growing
Ashaware actively maps to new curriculum standards as we expand into new jurisdictions, districts, and countries. Built to scale globally — and built first for Africa.
Choice Partners Approved Vendor
Federally compliant US purchasing cooperative — schools, districts, universities, and municipalities can purchase Ashaware with no competitive bid required.
Ashaware is available to ministries, schools, institutions, families, and organizations. View our plans or contact us to book a demo.
View Plans & Pricing Book a DemoMath Was Born in Africa. Every Student Deserves to Know That.
11 browser-playable African math games. No install required. Works on low-bandwidth connections. Curriculum-aligned to math standards from Kindergarten through Grade 12. For every student in the classroom.
Oware / Wari
Gr 2–10Counting, strategy, and arithmetic through one of the world's oldest known games — an ancient African strategy game played across the continent for thousands of years.
🏭 Pan-African — 7,000+ years old
Hyena Chase
Gr 3–8Strategy and probability rooted in North African tradition. Multiplayer, browser-based. Teaches critical thinking and mathematical reasoning through play.
🏭 North African tradition
Tsoro Yematatu
Gr 3–8Traditional strategy game of the Shona people of Zimbabwe — placement, movement, and pattern thinking on a compact grid. Logic and spatial reasoning through African tradition.
🏭 Zimbabwe · Shona tradition
3 in a Row / Morabaraba
Gr 3–9A traditional strategy game played across many African countries for hundreds of years — placement, blocking, and combinatorial thinking on an ancient board.
🏭 Pan-African strategy tradition
Square Network
Gr 4–9A traditional strategy game of the Asante people of Ghana — network building, spatial logic, and geometric thinking rooted in West African cultural heritage.
🏭 Ghana · Asante tradition
The River Crossing
Gr 4–9A classic logic puzzle from the Kpelle people of Liberia — a West African riddle that challenges students to solve a river crossing problem through systematic logical reasoning.
🏭 Liberia · Kpelle people
The Ishango Bone
Gr K–5An ancient mathematical mystery — explore arithmetic foundations through the world's oldest mathematical artifact, dated to 20,000 BC in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
🏭 DR Congo — 20,000 BC
Sand Drawing
Gr 3–8A traditional drawing game from the Democratic Republic of Congo — tracing continuous paths through geometric patterns, exploring symmetry, topology, and spatial reasoning.
🏭 DR Congo · Sona tradition
Eye of Horus
Gr 5–10Sacred fractions of Ancient Egypt — explore the Eye of Horus symbol and its mathematical meaning, connecting Egyptian mythology to fractions, ratios, and ancient measurement systems.
🏭 Ancient Egypt · Sacred mathematics
Pyramid Math Quest
Gr 5–12The mathematics of Giza — explore the extraordinary engineering and mathematical precision behind the construction of the Great Pyramids, connecting geometry, measurement, and ancient African science.
🏭 Ancient Egypt · Giza
Ancient Egyptian Dice Sticks
Gr 1–6Long ago, people in ancient Egypt created a fun game using special dice sticks — exploring probability, chance, and number sense through the play of the ancient world's most advanced civilization.
🏭 Ancient Egypt · Dice tradition
African Mathematical Heritage — 11 Games, 20,000 Years of Mathematics
"Math was not invented in Europe. It was born here, on this continent. Every student — of every background — deserves to know where it really came from."
🧮 Ashaware's 11 African math games qualify for NSF STEM K‑12, NSF ITEST, Perkins CTE, and F5 AI Education grants. See STEM funding options →
Book a DemoOne Platform. Every Learner.
Ashaware serves ministries of education, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, families, homeschool families, and non-profit organizations with an educational mission — across Africa, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and the global diaspora.
National & Regional Rollout
Ashaware partners directly with African ministries of education for national licensing — a curriculum library that puts African mathematics, science, and history at the center of African classrooms, mapped to national learning standards, while staying connected to the same diaspora content used in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.
- National & regional licensing agreements
- Curriculum mapped to local learning standards
- Works on low-bandwidth school connections
- Local language rollout in development
- Teacher training & onboarding support
- Pilot programs available for new markets
Kindergarten to Grade 12
A searchable library of 400,000+ curriculum-indexed lesson plans rooted in African heritage — spanning ancient civilization to modern-day achievement — and aligned to standards across African, Caribbean, US, and Canadian school systems. Accurate, complete, and classroom-ready in seconds.
- African national & regional curriculum alignment
- 852 Illinois districts — Black History Education Act
- California AB 101 & SB 510 Ethnic Studies
- TDSB & TCDSB Ontario school boards
- Choice Partners — no competitive bid required (US)
- Multiple plans available — single user to site-wide
Colleges & Universities
AI-adapted content at Higher Education reading level — for African universities, HBCUs and community colleges in the US, and institutions across Canada and the Caribbean. Curriculum grounded in African and diaspora history, science, and culture, ancient to modern.
- African university licensing
- Higher Ed reading level — AI-adapted content
- UWI — 17 Caribbean territories
- 101 US HBCUs — Afrocentric curriculum
- Faculty and student access tiers
- Institution-wide site license available
Learn at Home
Families across Africa, the US, Canada, the Caribbean, and the wider diaspora choosing to homeschool, or supplement school learning, want curriculum that reflects their children. Ashaware was built for exactly this.
- 675,000+ Black homeschooling families in the US
- Black homeschool rate grew 9.6x since 1999
- $4.99/month or $59.99/year — save 2 months
- No procurement process — buy direct
- Full access — 11 subjects, 8 reading levels
- Available globally — Africa, Caribbean, Canada, UK
Every Family, Every Background
Ashaware is built first for African families and the global diaspora — across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean — and welcomes every family that wants their children to learn an accurate, complete history of African contributions to mathematics, science, language, and culture, from ancient times to today.
- Truth in education — for children of every background
- Supplemental learning alongside school curriculum
- Age-appropriate content from age 2 through adult
- Interactive games, multimedia, and lesson plans
- $4.99/month or $59.99/year — no long-term contract
- Available in Africa, Caribbean, Canada, US, UK
Mission-Driven Organizations
Libraries, community organizations, housing authorities, after-school programs, cultural centres, and faith communities with an educational mission — Ashaware provides complete, accurate curriculum infrastructure at scale. 21st CCLC, Head Start, McKinney-Vento, and REAP eligible.
- Active pilot with major Ontario public housing authority
- Active pilot with Ontario provincial non-profit
- Libraries, cultural centres, after-school programs
- Faith communities and diaspora organizations
- Choice Partners eligible — no bid required (US)
- Multi-user and site license tiers available
Not Sure Which Plan?
Home & Family plan from $4.99/month. School, ministry, district, and non-profit plans available — view all options or contact us and we'll find the right fit.
View All Plans Contact UsAfrica and the Global Diaspora — Ancient to Modern, One Story
Most African school systems still teach from frameworks inherited from colonialism — and the same gap follows the diaspora into classrooms across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, where the full arc of African and diaspora history, from ancient achievement to modern contribution, rarely makes it into the syllabus. Ashaware was built to close that gap everywhere it shows up — on the continent, and across every community its diaspora calls home.
The Continent
Ministry partnerships and national licensing in development across the continent. Curriculum grounded in the mathematics, science, and history that originated here — the Ishango Bone, the pyramids of Giza, Oware, and more.
The Diaspora — North America
Paying schools in both countries. Aligned to standards in Ontario, Nova Scotia, NYC, Illinois, California, and more. Choice Partners approved for immediate purchase across the US. Same African-rooted curriculum, ancient to modern.
The Diaspora — Jamaica, T&T, Barbados & Beyond
CSEC math pass rate of 36% — curriculum disconnected from culture. Aligned to Caribbean curriculum standards, sharing the same African-rooted heritage. University of the West Indies partnerships in development.
UK, Europe & Beyond
The African diaspora spans every continent. Ashaware is accessible globally — schools, homes, and organizations in the UK, Europe, and beyond can subscribe directly.
"This is one continuous story — Africa and its global diaspora, ancient to modern — told with the truth and depth it has always deserved. Built for the continent, and for every classroom across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and beyond that has inherited a distorted view of human history."
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