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Dr. Amos Wilson: Lectures on Education, Culture, Black consciousness Education for who's interest ? There is something about education that educationists in Africa are missing. And that is; education is not just for your personal development so that you get a job or get an award or go speak at Ted or grant interview on international media houses or hold meeting at international conferences that has nothing to do with the development of your culture.  Education is a social and cultural development tool. When taken together, the purpose of your education is for the development of your culture. If your education cannot be used to advance the interest of your culture and move it forward, then your education is useless.  Sadly, that's mostly the case in Africa and other colonized countries around the world, who continue to be indoctrinated with ideologies, thesis, conjectures, theories and so called "facts" that were developed by Euro-Americans for themselves in THEI...

Open Letter to African Intellectuals By  Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire (Uganda) The tag, ‘intellectual’ in reference to Africa refers to a certain type: western educated and visible in western media, may be published in the West and maybe teaching at a western university. Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire writes to this type of African Intellectual. Dear contemporary African Intellectuals, We find your names on lists published in western media, among the top African Public Intellectuals, sometimes among the lists of Global Thinkers. And we celebrate. ‘Our’ thinkers are shaping the world, we say. You appear in TIME’s lists of Influential People. You have theorised about important things. About the end of capitalist hegemony. About the failure of the African state. About the representations of Africanness. About the rise of Afro-capitalism. About many things your Western audiences find very captivating. And this is why they rank you highly alongside their own intellectuals. You a...

The vexed question of African languages in education. Still, a solution may lay in front of us   By Michel Lafon- professor of linguistics, University of Pretoria South Africa If you follow this blog, you probably already know I wrote a book called intellectual slavery, the worst legacy of colonialism . I subtitled some of the chapters ''information the West don't want you to know.''  It is very important Africans realize that the West wants us to think on a specific level and not to exceed certain perimeters. It looks like the information I shared in the book is causing some people sleepless night. You may find it hard to believe, but ''miraculously'' almost all the web links that I cited in my book's bibliography, were all deleted the same week I published the book. Indeed, the old colonialists don't want Africans to be awakened!.  Guess who deleted them? They were deleted by those who don't want us to be awakened by ...

Africans and African-American scholars of black history you should know Black history/ African-American history / African historians Africans must realize that the history we study in school is a European version of African history. Why? Because the Europeans after conquering the rest of the world and colonizing so many nations, installed their language, education, religion, in all conquered colonies, and in the process also installed their point of view about accounts of events (history), so the history we are taught is simply European account, not our account. If we colonized Europeans, history would've been different, it would've been to elevate ourselves. Look, the account they gave us is not a true historical account because history is written from the view point of the writer. In fact, history is written by the victors, not the vanquished. If I conquer you, if I enslave you, if I colonize you, I'll write your history to favor me and I'll force you to study...