Is it time to take control of the basic education of Africans? My most impactful videos are the ones about lost or hidden African history and my True History Of Africa challenge has had a great response.
Discuss your thoughts on what steps we should take to address the general ignorance of our community on our own history and what role we should play in changing course.
We first would need to decolonise the education system in Africa and the Caribbean. I recently went to Jamaica, and they’re making changes to make the education more advanced with more critical thinking. For example, I visited a school, and they’re learning Algebra and statistics from primary school (year one). Things that I didn’t learn in the U.K. until secondary school. Critical thinking is centred around asking exam questions that implement the things learnt in practical ways and applying these things to farming concepts for example (eg.: applying area and ratio to farming and building in an exam style question). This is how we create a self sustaining generation with the thinking skills required to not be taken advantage of.
Africa as a whole needs to develop this kind of structure across the continent and create an educational system that complements the independent and communal way of life that our people live back home. Education should reflect us and our needs and NOT be centred around Europeans (or even Asia, as the Chinese are slowly trying to infiltrate us).
Secondly, we in the diaspora need to come together and create an education system divorced from the European one. The Jewish and Asian Muslims do it here in the U.K., so why don’t we(?). The won’t make it easy but we only fail when we give up. We have to take responsibility of ourselves and be prepared to fight tooth and nail, and push back when they try to subdue us.
We also need to start focusing our education points on Global African History, meaning we analyse the entire diaspora to see how we’ve all been working/functioning, assessing all of our revolutionary efforts, our failures, our advancements, our adaptations etc. across the west, and the gaps in our community that would have made Africa and the Diaspora stronger.
Something tells me that if we assessed our global history, particularly in the last 400 years, we’d see that there have been overlaps in our fight to freedom, we just haven’t been fighting as one unit—but this is just an assumption based on the little pockets of info I’ve come across.
We as Africans are responsible for educating ourselves and our children, but if we choose to wait for “permission” to do things our way, we’ll remain waiting for eternity.
IMHO - every education system should be educating kids on how to solve the issues in the local environment. I.e. go to a market, get them to outline the issues they see and get them to devise solutions. Through working in teams. Part of finding the solution would be through researching local history, applied maths and science, presentation, pitching, marketing etc. And for this as children grow older they can visit different parts of the country, fostering an understanding of other communities. Lastly, this is a long shot, but it would be nice to teach physical education, wellbeing, mindfulness and art of studying ones own body and psychology.
We first would need to decolonise the education system in Africa and the Caribbean. I recently went to Jamaica, and they’re making changes to make the education more advanced with more critical thinking. For example, I visited a school, and they’re learning Algebra and statistics from primary school (year one). Things that I didn’t learn in the U.K. until secondary school. Critical thinking is centred around asking exam questions that implement the things learnt in practical ways and applying these things to farming concepts for example (eg.: applying area and ratio to farming and building in an exam style question). This is how we create a self sustaining generation with the thinking skills required to not be taken advantage of.
Africa as a whole needs to develop this kind of structure across the continent and create an educational system that complements the independent and communal way of life that our people live back home. Education should reflect us and our needs and NOT be centred around Europeans (or even Asia, as the Chinese are slowly trying to infiltrate us).
Secondly, we in the diaspora need to come together and create an education system divorced from the European one. The Jewish and Asian Muslims do it here in the U.K., so why don’t we(?). The won’t make it easy but we only fail when we give up. We have to take responsibility of ourselves and be prepared to fight tooth and nail, and push back when they try to subdue us.
We also need to start focusing our education points on Global African History, meaning we analyse the entire diaspora to see how we’ve all been working/functioning, assessing all of our revolutionary efforts, our failures, our advancements, our adaptations etc. across the west, and the gaps in our community that would have made Africa and the Diaspora stronger.
Something tells me that if we assessed our global history, particularly in the last 400 years, we’d see that there have been overlaps in our fight to freedom, we just haven’t been fighting as one unit—but this is just an assumption based on the little pockets of info I’ve come across.
We as Africans are responsible for educating ourselves and our children, but if we choose to wait for “permission” to do things our way, we’ll remain waiting for eternity.
IMHO - every education system should be educating kids on how to solve the issues in the local environment. I.e. go to a market, get them to outline the issues they see and get them to devise solutions. Through working in teams. Part of finding the solution would be through researching local history, applied maths and science, presentation, pitching, marketing etc. And for this as children grow older they can visit different parts of the country, fostering an understanding of other communities. Lastly, this is a long shot, but it would be nice to teach physical education, wellbeing, mindfulness and art of studying ones own body and psychology.