There is a reason the first thing serious liberation movements do is address education.
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There is a reason the first thing serious liberation movements do is address education.
Amílcar Cabral said it.
Frantz Fanon said it.
Amílcar Cabral said the colonized must "return to the source," must recover historical identity not as nostalgia but as the specific foundation on which genuine independence becomes possible.
They were not being romantic.
They were being precise.
They understood that a people who do not know their own history cannot draw on it.
Cannot point to it and say:
We built things before you arrived. We will build things after you leave.
Cannot look at the condition the colonizer created and say with full confidence:
This was done to us. It is not what we are.
A people without that knowledge accepts the condition.
Does not demand the transformation.
Waits for permission from the people who designed the situation to fix it.
And the people who designed the situation are not going to fix it.
posted by Satish Sharma at
03:57
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