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Education in Africa is Still Colonialism, and Has Always Been By Savo Heleta  @Savo_Heleta The movement to decolonise higher education — a coalition of students, progressive academics, university staff and concerned public — must find ways to hold the institutions accountable and maintain a nonviolent and intellectual struggle until Eurocentrism and epistemic violence at universities are dismantled. Calls for decolonisation of universities have been long overdue. The movement to decolonise higher education was launched into the public sphere by students in 2015 and has been maintained by them and a small number of progressive academics ever since. The fact that the students had to kick-start the campaign for decolonisation of the curriculum rooted in colonialism and apartheid — and not the university leaders, academics and administrators — tells a lot about the state of higher education in post-apartheid South Africa and the continued maintenance of the hegemonic s...

The colonial chattered companies from Europe Brief history of the origin of exploitation of Africa by western interests (EXPLOITATION: How Europe laid the foundation for poverty in Africa) Colonial chattered companies..... Chartered companies were companies that received certain rights and privileges under a special charter issued by the sovereign of a European state. This charter usually gave the company a nationally recognized trading monopoly for a specific geographic area and for specific trade items, and the right to use force to open and maintain trade. Dominant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and from 1880 to 1900- the eras of mercantilism and of the ”scramble for Africa,” respectively- royally chartered companies proved to be indispensable tools for the opening of Africa to European commercial and imperial ambition. As a way to defray government costs, European exploits in Africa from 1340 until 1900 were usually funded by high-risk venture capital in...

Why Europeans Were Able to Conquer Africa And the Rest of the World Message to Africans and black people elsewhere (Part 1)   Someone recently asked me a question saying "If blacks were already everywhere across the world like you claim, and had ships thousands of years before the Caucasians, I expect that they should have been a little more advanced. I expect that they should also have been able to defend themselves with these things and it should not have been easy for the Europeans to come into their lands and conquer them. Not only conquer them, but also go to their "brothers" lands as well and conquer them also.  Please explain to me how the Europeans were able to trump up blacks that were light years ahead of them according to you". That's a good question!.  This message, therefore, is meant for those Africans and black people elsewhere who've bought European version of history, line, hook, and sinker. It is for those who the education syst...