• To offer quality education to the children of Ayensudo area and beyond, regardless of social or economic status.
• To infuse curricula from Great Britain and the United States into the Ghanaian curriculum, affording the students a holistic approach to learning, with special consideration given to the unique learning style of each student. Emphasis will be placed on African and African-American culture and history.
• To strengthen self-concept to the extent that each child will accomplish all he/she sets as goals for self and for the benefit of others.
• To empower parents as first teachers of their children.
• To help parents as first teachers of their children.
• To help the community's inhabitants improve their quality of life and increase their life spans.

• To join the ranks of respected institutions that utilize holistic systems as means of developing responsible citizens who will be able to successfully meet the challenges of our global society.
• To use a program that will offer a well-staffed, well-equipped school as a safe haven for all students, parents, and staff.
• To form partnerships among the school, the Ministry of Education (KEEA), local businesses, and the broader community.

• We believe all parents are teachers, and all teachers are parents.
• We believe all children can learn and become productive citizens, and keepers of their languages, traditions and culture.
• We believe "it takes a whole village" (parents, elders, teachers, business community, churches, mosques, educational institutions, etc.) to rear and educate the whole child.
• We believe in a value system that will develop the child from seven principles:
  • Unity
  • Self-determination
  • Collective work and responsibility
  • Cooperative economics
  • Purpose
  • Creativity
  • Faith

The dream started with E. Malkia Brantuo knowing that education, formal or informal, is the key to a successful life. As a result Timbuktu Academy of Science and Technology (TAST) was established as a charter school in Detroit, MI, on September 23, 1997. The foundation for the rigorous curriculum is African Centrism with emphasis on science and technology. After three years of managing TAST, E. Malkia Brantuo felt the need to have a sister school in Ghana, West Africa. The construction began in 2002 for Ayensudu Akoma International Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAIAAS). The purpose of the sister schools is to exchange cultural information, historical data, differing lifestyles, myths, stereotypes, and taboos.

AAIAAS opened in September 2004 with 58 students 53 of which were orphans. The school continues to educate and service more than 100 children yearly regardless of family income. In September 2008, we will begin our fifth year on our 4 acres of land with our 10 classrooms, a computer lab, a toy and book library, and 2 offices housed in two buildings.

Our expansion plan includes; the purchase of a bus for transporting the children to and from school and on field trips, the purchase 6 additional acres of land, and building two additional buildings with 3 and 4 classrooms respectively.

Our task is great, our parents are poor, but our children are eager to learn and that is our reward!