This is transformational... We desperately need an overhaul of our educational system in order to create and develop black Africans who are "truly African" and able to participate on the global think tanks. This is thought provoking. I love this.
Other thing our nation discourse is held by Black middle class not peasants, Black middle it's normal consist the group of people who are suffered from social amnesia, that's why we spend a lot of time discussing nonsense
I had the same discussion recently on how the Black Middle Class can never understand the needs of the common man in the streets because they (Middle Class) are insulated by corporate jobs, tidy surbubs in the complexes and Woolies groceries. In the words of Steve Biko, "Black man, you are on your own".
I don't agree with everything he is saying. But I understand his school of thought. Decolonialism aims at attempting to reclaim pride in African culture that was destroyed by the colonial project, however not everything that came with colonialism needs to be discarded. There are cultural practices that are negative and should rightly be let loose, being critical of one's culture is not self hate, it's an important part of progress.
When the clash of cultures led to the battle field we know who won and unfortunately the winners swallow the other culture by subtle methods based on the battle field result, until natives deal with their battle field failures the rest is just talk
why not promote cultural pluralism in higher education systems? The co-existence might have its limitations, but it is better to ensure there won't be cultural erosion while redefining pedagogies can promote indigenous way of knowing in the education system. But no there is not time for that better reproduce. Even present language policies in higher education in South Africa are not fully or even meet the basics of the Indigenous knowledge system. These policies are just tokenistic gestures rather than decolonization of the education system. The decolonization of language in the education system has to start in higher education institutions- these are the institutions that produce the scholars, educators, etc if their cosmology is colonized they will further reproduce colonized discourses, students, and systems especially if they are not critical thinkers. It is the knowledge production and the colonised system that makes us devalue and dehumanize Indigenous epistemologies. Besides that some of the Indigenous ways were indeed barbaric its better when we do away with those negatives. Yes, there are barriers of decolonization but is it worth eroding Indigenous knowledge-culture, beliefs, values, language? South Africa is not independent; it is dependent on hegemonic western knowledge systems. It is just criminalised state that is chained
Nope ive went through white schools, i dont despise my culture or race...this is just injecting paranoia amongst black youth. And south Africans have the right to study in the language of choice....we hv schools that come in all 11 languages we can simply just go to them akere
This no about individualism, but a group of people, You need to divorce yourself from exceptionality, Black people were colonised as a group not individuals..... with your narrow mindset, you will perpetually be 2nd to Europeans.... Lastly China, Japan, South Korea and India are ahead of technologically prowess without English but their own languages...Stop self hating...
