Postcolonial Africa: Inferiority &

Education
Kelompok 1
 (De)colonization of the Mind (Oleofsen,
2015)
• Africans are Psychologically altered by
Colonialism
• Colonial values are internalized
• Race as a dominant identity marker
• Whiteness is the normal, Blackness is the other
• Reorientation to focus on African philosophy
• Humanizing Education & Pedagogy
• Indigenous values and objectives --- Ubuntu
 African Philosophy of Education & African
Indigenous Knowledge System (Mutekwe, 2015)

• African education historically anti-African

• Education was focused on limiting black potential
• A return to African & Biblical values
• African Indigenous Knowledge system (AIKS) centered
Education as key for uplifting the African identity
• Afro-centric, culturally aware curriculum
• African conception for happiness and community ----
Ubuntu
• Social roles for education
• Healing the scars of Slavery, Colonization, & Apartheid
 Cognitive Justice & IKS (Muchenje, 2017)

• Traditional & Indigenous Knowledge are valid and

on par with Western Knowledge systems
• A need for culturally-aware education
• Perpetuation of Colonial Education leads to socio-
cultural disjointing
• Globalization provides challenges to validity of
IKS
• A need for IKS to be non-standard and
multicultural
 Memory & Tradition: African Identity
(Caldeira, 2016)
• African Identity is a colonial construct
• What is Pre-Colonial is unknown and recreated and
idealized
• A shared sense of African Cultural-Individual Memory
• African diaspora is part of the cultural memory
• Authors like Toni Morisson, Maryse Conde, Pepetela
& Mia Coutou tells the story of African memory
• A fusion of Tradition & Modernity to create an African
Identity