"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"
- Mandela
In his book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson :"the miseducation of the negro", Dr. Woodson stated that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools.
This conditioning, he claims, causes blacks to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught.
Another theory
"What would a university be if its only purpose was to produce knowledge without considering its effects on a society and its people?
... it’s perhaps precisely this disjuncture – between what universities purport to do and what happens in society – that starts to explain why knowledge in Afrika has become so misplaced. "
- theconverstion.com
The purpose of education must be the total development of a person to know all about him/her and be a solution to his society.
Therefore Education in Afrika must achieve this tasks:
1. Education must reshape the image of Afrika:
Education must give Afrikans a positive image. I like the group on Facebook titled "positive black images they never show you", that is it, it is education.
Education must reshape the image we have of Afrika from (agrarian to techno etc) and also reshape the image we have our ourselves as Afrikans (from weak to strong, ugliness to beauty, followership to leadership).
Afrikans must stop seeing themselves as inferior and start seeing themselves of deserving the best life has to offer.
2. Education must root out the causes of the colonisation of Afrika:
We can't be educated and still be colonised
"education makes a person unfit to be a slave"
- Frederick Douglass
For us to be educated and still be enslaved without physical chains means that truly, the education we are receiving needs to be worked on, and the work must be to decolonise our education and make us free to reign.
3. Education must show the way to rebuild Afrika for a better life for Afrikans:
Education exists to build and not just to know. According to Educationist John Dewey "Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself"
Education should put Afrika on the path of progress by showing us how to rebuild Afrika by making every field of our existence like economy, health, politics to be working healthily thereby producing a just, free, holy and prosperous Afrika.
"If what you know doesn't make you grow, let it go"
- Eze Chimere Nwauzo
4. Make Afrika the world producer:
Afrika was the leader of the world for thousands of years according to history, but for centuries today it has been the opposite. Education should be able to take Afrika back to productivity as the prove of knowledge is productivity.
5. Education must make Afrika THE first world again:
Education should restore Afrika to being the first world again. Education is to develop us to reach our full potential according to Dr. Myles Munroe. So Afrika can't be educated and still be a third world. Our potentials as Afrikans have been proven to be first class, we cannot be properly educate and be on the valley.
6. Education must make Afrika revered by all people of the world :
Education should restore lost Afrikan glory. We were glorious, how can we be educated and be less than we were before. Let us get back our Afrikan glory which the world is relishing today.
7. Education must make the Afrikan family proud to call Afrika home again.
Many Afrikans are ashamed to associate with Afrika, don't like Afrikan names, don't want Afrikan attires, wear suits and ties for their wedding and prefer to be "American", "European" etc.
True education will make Afrikans proud to be called Afrikans. If the world knows what Afrika is, the world will respect Afrika and Afrikans. It is education that will make thus happen: knowledge of our history and building a better today.
8. Finally, Education should Unite Afrika
"That which religion should teach us,
That which education should teach us,
That which history, independence, colonialism every factor around us: good and bad Should teach us is that we need to Unite to make progress: Afrikan Unity is Afrikan Progress"
"Education is to create a wholesome person who is self-reliant and productive"
Eze Chimere Nwauzo
Chairman OAF
One Afrika Family Organization
Eze Afrika
