Formal Education & Africans

"In education, the bedrock of development, Olaudah Equiano, the first Nigerian to be educated in 1847 who is also the first African writer, has become forever synonymous with education"

Narratives like this one are questionable. When you say Olaudah was the first educated person in Nigeria. You have erased all forms of education that existed before colonization.

You have inadvertently wiped out centuries of education in governance, inventions, healthcare, commerce, astrology and so much more. That is the power of writing.

The problem with formal education is not that Africans don't like it. It is that, it is quite fictional in comparison to the reality of an African child

Some of our students ask questions today and we are befuddled, we start to quote a constituted position or the curriculum standards, when the children seek to validate our questionable history nuggets.

We, Africans are our own worst enemies. Denying our history to be accepted as knowledgeable when more knowledge lies wihin our history.t

The classroom narrative and writing sounds like a beautiful romance novel when you sit back and ask questions like more and more students now do.

Was the source of River Niger discovered by a foreigner or was he taken there?

Did the colonizers introduce democracy to us or did they export it from us?

Did Africa influence hygiene on the west, because while we bathed in flowing rivers history says they bathed in tubs and risked throwing the baby out with the water?

Teleporting is science but black magic normalised it for African children, what are the chances that researching what we did not document was the foundation for the border teleportation technology?

Even with regards to Christianity, facts say it originated closer to Ethiopia than Rome but what do I know, isn't it what we call western religion?

Do your research on the popular Italian leather and you might find yourself in the beautiful city of Kano, which till date provides the best leather.

Shall we research the very expensive Indigenous Aso Oke, which once upon a time was symbol of wealth along with organic coral beads. It was associated with affluence, royalty and class.

Need I speak about the court system or the food presentations or the hairstyles.

My point is this, if a prince doesn't know his history, he would confidently serve his father's slave in his own palace.

Let us start correcting assumed narrative and identify as the Africans that we are

Proud, Strong and Resilient with a history that goes beyond the Gregorian Calendar making it unrealistic for anyone to expect to tell us about us better than us