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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2022
- In Kenya, history as a subject is still taught from a colonial perspective with racist undertones years after the country gained independence. Despite various iterations of its educational curriculum, Kenya has yet to address why and how it educates. This is a story about the need to decolonise education in Kenya.
#decolonise #education #racism
Aaah, this is my kind of documentary. Thank you TRT World.
Nice video Trt, very interesting, and the bro at 8:33 is very sympathetic, greetings to him from Türkiye 🇹🇷 🇰🇪
Being canned for speaking ur local language was done in ghana also but now its changing ...
This is great work. Most people never ask these questions.
Awesome.
I am not used to subscribe to almost all these yutube videos but for this one I have not only subscribed but also shared. VERY RELEVANT.
This was an awesome and very critical exposee. It breaks my heart we still have the Monto/ disk regulation to dislike our mother tongues and our rich/ varied expression as a country with multi ethnic communities. I think owning the reality of being a hostile local, remains and shows our radical stance to resist being made white/ whiteness a system that devalues black lived experiences and various forms of blackness globally
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This is great work.
You are prepared for slavery a debt slave. Its usually in economics, finance and debt monetary system
thank you being candid
What an impressive video! Thank you!
This is a very important documentary.
They did the same thing to me in Ugandan schools where i was punished for speaking Somali with my fellow Somali classmates but i never foresake my heritage and it's thanks to it i now can network with other Somalis all over the world!
It is mind boggling
Christianity was spread by the gun
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They put in this places to world map
Bro, this has made me rise a lot of questions about Ugandan Education system and Africa at large
Uganda really needs second independence
As a person of European dissent this is very eye-opening because recently our system has come under scrutiny for being the type of education system that educated only to have future leaders be civil servants or skilled , It’s interesting to see that we are not the only one that sees this system on this way.
Imagine being mad that education is pragmatic and practical lmao
another issue is that they dont teach us our whole history, like the Shifta war and the 1980 coup.
Is she Esther wandia njoya former plant pathologist pyrethrum board of kenya
We should have our own narrative on our education system not this that we inherited from Europeans.
The problem we have is that we don't question certain narratives. And that's because we were taught not to challenge what we were taught. Our critical thinking was NON-EXISTENT!!! I realised this point when I compared our system of education with the Western world. Children are taught to be critical thinkers, while we are taught rote learning.....
I wonder which country you were in, because teaching critical thinking in the majority of European/American schools has fallen by the wayside as well. Rote learning and political narratives have taken over. Or maybe you experienced an exemplary school
The ongoing presidential petition in Kenya says all about our education system. We are still addressing our judges as My Lords and My Ladies 🙄🙄 wearing the colonial outfit and wigs 😂😂
They probably teach them that their ancestors had no history
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I don’t see anything wrong with telling students to learn to speak English
Most especially if you live in a multi ethnic country
You need a language that would let you communicate with the people around you from different ethnicities .
It only makes sense if you live in a homogenous country
European countries have multiple languages but during meetings they never use english
I'm Kenyan and can relate to his experiences, but some of his critiques don't make any sense. Asking why you should care about Europeans discovering Mt. Kenya and not how the indigenous people lived there is an unnecessarily binary either/or way of thinking. It's also an illogical question. No one says the latter doesn't matter; you need to study both. Asking such a question when the goal of this video is to reflect on how the past influences the present is ironic. As painful as it is to admit, we have a much better quality of life today than our ancestors did pre-colonialism. It is because of European exploration that we and the rest of the world know the other exists.
To the point on hostility from locals, there again isn't any reason to be offended. Indigenous people were objectively hostile to missionaries, both through physical violence and peaceful rejection of their ideals. Their actions do reflect the dictionary definition of hostility; if your point is that the phrasing is eurocentric, then there's a better way to articulate it.
Sorry, life is not necessarily better for all people in Africa today compared to before colonisation. Not in all cases. The fact that you believe that shows how distorted is your knowledge of history.
Africans already new of the exists of the outside are we just going to ignore that fact that the Chinese Yuan Dynasty that came to Africa in the year (1271-1368) or the the African Moors that conquered Spain in 711 AD or Alexander Pushkin one of the greatest poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era in Russia who was of black African descent. What do you mean by ‘ it is because of European exploration that we and the rest of the world know the other exists’
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If we hadn't been colonized, I'd have been mutilated, married off as a child and made to spend the rest of my life in a polygamous marriage where my co-wives and I did most of the labor. I'd be living in a cramped and poorly ventilated hut in the forest, with my community's only source of livelihood being livestock and a limited variety crops. We'd be raided by other tribes every so often, and the cluster of huts that made up my community would offer little fortification.
I would have no opportunities for education and would examine any disease or misfortune in my life through the lens of superstition. My life expectancy would be lower, my economic stability practically non-existent, and my descendants would be doomed to spend the rest of their lives never making intellectual or economic progress.
Many Africans live in poverty today, but to act like colonialism hasn't made progress more accessible is to lie to oneself.
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Why are you saying "Africa"? That's an entire continent. A small group of people traveling to one part of the continent doesn't mean everyone else knows they exist.
The Yuan Dynasty is a historical period, not a group of people. Foreign traders typically only interacted with people on the coast, and they tended to only go inland to meet civilizations that were already well known like Ethiopia and Egypt. The Moors were Arabs and North Africans; the question here pertains to Sub-Saharan Africa. Pushkin's African ancestry is only through his grandfather who was a slave; the rest of his heritage is Russian royalty, German nobility and Scandinavian nobility. Respectfully, nothing you've said refutes my point.
You are contradicting yourself here. The goal of this video, like you have stated, is to reflect on the past, which is shaping our present and will shape our future.
The education system is colonial based. Much of what we are taught is shaped around colonialism. How can we not want to embrace our identity? This trend happened even during slavery, where Black people were not allowed to learn anything apart from the Bible.....a white man's lie!!! BTW, Africans were the first explorers, way before the Asians and Europeans came to Alkebu-Lan. Read more on The Nile Valley Civilisation!!
If you say you are Kenyan, then tafakari msemo huu:- MWACHA MILA NI MTUMWA!!
Make Wakanda great again.
If you have your own local histories, I don’t know why you wouldn’t teach them. That’s part of national identity. As is allowing your mother tongue to be spoken, which it is as far as I can tell, just not predominantly. Teaching a second language, like English, is useful, although clearly “useful” isnt the goal here. I’m not going to assume, since I don’t know for sure, but what was the pre-colonial Kenyan education system like? Was there one? When the country became independent, would the new leaders have had to create a new model for the system from scratch? I can understand why they didn’t if that’s the case. If you want to reform your system to become more local-centric, go for it. That said, I think the preoccupation with this narrative that everything about colonialism was negative and that pre-colonial times were idyllic is simply untrue, although truth has never exactly been the main priority when it comes to creating national identity.
The example with Mt. Kenya is reasonable. If the locals there have a history, teach that. I’m sure there are other similar cases to be made for other landmarks. I perhaps wouldn’t compare it to something like Hiram Bingham’s rediscovery of Macchu Picchu, for example. Yes, there were local peoples living on the site, but they had let it rot. It was Hiram Bingham who hired people to clean it up, restore what he could, document everything, and actually do something productive with the knowledge. Much like countries demanding their artifacts back, now that they have value, do to somebody else taking the time, money, and resources to dig them up and research them. Crazily enough, that’s still the case today, with certain historical sites simply left to be picked apart by local governments who refuse to let outsiders in but don’t spend the resources to do the work themselves.
Bit rich coming from the neo-Ottomans
You are prepared for slavery a debt slave
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