Mental Health, Community and Culture
A course examining mental health, stress, culture, family expectations, community support, structural conditions, and pathways to professional care.
7 modules
Self-paced
Introductory
Learning Area 01
Mind and Wellbeing
Learning Area 02
Economics and Development
Competency-Based Learning Tracks
Competency-Based Learning Track
African Economic Literacy and Systems Analysis
Available nowA structured learning pathway that develops the ability to examine African economic issues across household, institutional, national, historical, and global dimensions.
Track Competency
Explore the Course →By completing this learning track, learners should be able to analyze an African economic issue across household, institutional, national, historical, and global dimensions and communicate a grounded assessment of who benefits, who carries risk, and what policy or development choices are available.
Competency-Based Learning Track
Community Wealth and Enterprise
Available nowAn applied learning pathway that develops the ability to manage personal and household money, build and sustain a small enterprise, and lead groups that handle shared money and shared risk.
Track Competency
Explore the Course →By completing this learning track, learners should be able to manage their own household cash flow, validate and price an enterprise, and lead a group through shared financial decisions using transparent, accountable structures.
Learning Area 03
AI, Technology and Digital Futures
Learning Area 04
Public Policy and Governance
Proposed First PilotDiscuss a Pilot Partnership →
Proposed Pilot Programme
Ubuntu and the Public Good
A four-week applied learning experience examining how values, institutions, economics, and community knowledge shape public decisions. Participants develop a one-page community-centered policy memo as their final project.
Intended audienceYoung adults ages 18–30
Proposed formatFour weekly facilitated sessions
Proposed deliveryOnline or partner-hosted
Final learner productOne-page policy memo
Current statusUnder development — available for partnership discussion
Heritage and Leadership Collection
Waiyaki wa Hinga Heritage and Leadership Collection
A distinctive Tamu Academy collection bringing together research, oral history, and African-centered interpretation.
Course Design
What a Complete Tamu Academy Course May Include
Each open Tamu Academy course includes the following. Courses still in development will follow the same design:
Open Learning
Begin with Free Open Learning
Begin with freely available Tamu Academy videos and articles exploring wellbeing, public policy, economics, institutions, culture, and global systems.
05Learning Areas
09Course Components
Course Design
Course Components
Recorded expert-led lessons
Written lesson companions
Transcripts and captions
Reflection questions
Knowledge checks
Downloadable activities
Course workbooks
Practical assignments
Facilitator materials for institutions
Partnerships
Learning for Educators and Institutions
Tamu Academy works with schools, universities, youth organisations, nonprofits, public institutions and community programmes. There are three ways to bring Tamu Academy learning to the people you serve.
Educators and facilitators
Run a cohort with our materials
Facilitator materials accompany each course: lesson plans, session guides, discussion prompts, activity sheets and slides. You lead the learning with your own group, at a pace that suits them, alongside our written course companions.
Connect as an Educator →Institutions
Institutional cohort enrolment
We enrol your students, staff or members in an open Tamu Academy course. Your learners study through the platform at their own pace and receive certificates, and we provide progress and completion reporting for your cohort.
Discuss Institutional Access →Institutions and community programmes
Co-designed pilot programme
Where a course is still in development, we can plan a pilot together, adapting its focus, examples and activities to your curriculum, learners or community. The proposed Ubuntu and the Public Good programme is prepared for this kind of collaboration.
Discuss a Pilot Partnership →How a Partnership Begins
- 01Tell us about your learners and what you want them to gain, using the partnership inquiry form.
- 02We review your inquiry and reply using the contact details you provide. If it looks like a good fit, we agree the format together.
- 03We prepare the materials, enrolment or pilot and confirm what will be delivered before anything begins.
Tamu Academy is an emerging organisation, and partnership inquiries are reviewed as capacity allows. Submitting an inquiry does not guarantee a partnership, admission or funding.