The framework definitely foregrounds community and community relations. It is an excellent way to deal with history and an oral society, and would likely work with any mainly oral culture. This foregrounds African culture and the STEM achievements accomplished there, while tying it intimately to the culture and community around it.

Some of the questions are the same, but we tend to be a writing based, teach to the test culture, even in libraries. This framework centers people who do not fit that tradition. Pennsylvania is very much a traditional standards state, though we are working on it. That said, even the newer standards are focused on European ways of doing things, and pay only lip service to anything else.

In order to advocate for more African Studies engagement (and not just African-American), I would point out that the oldest human cultures in the world are in Africa, and the evolution of homo sapiens and our ancestors spent a large majority of its history on the continent. The only reason we are not seeing more of the societies in world history are capitalistic/colonial, and a writing based bias.