Examining How the African Educational System Was Destroyed Under European Colonialism

Before the Europeans arrived in Africa, people in Africa established a system to educate their young people. Africans have a tradition of oral education that can inherit their cultural values. Through a series of rituals, these children were taught various tribal laws and customs, and the various skills necessary to survive in pre-colonial society. These children are taught through oral literature including myths, fables, and their cultural traditions.

In their study of colonial education in Africa, Nwanosike and Onyije explained that the Europeans deliberately established incorrect educational systems: "The education system is African, Caucasian myth, racial superiority And African inferiority.The colonial education creates subordinate, exploitative, spiritual turmoil and by developing undeveloped education, they internalize the sense of inferiority and the inhumanity Is to be aware of their savior.

Prior to the American Revolutionary War, European colonies have enacted laws to separate African slaves from rapidly growing white people. The purpose of this law is to integrate the advantages of Europeans and to utilize the economic system of slave labor in Africa. According to British regulations, South Carolina passed the black law of 1735 and decided on the type of clothing allowed to be worn by blacks, other than "black cloth, coarse, tox, marijuana, blue linen, linen" Prohibited. Or rough cloth "luxurious clothes. Check garlic, or calicoes, cotton or Scotland plaids. "Louisiana Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miro is still a Spanish colony and has passed the" Good Governance Law "which requires black women to" wear scarves "or" cheat. " Women are prohibited from wearing the same "jewelry or feathers" as women in Europe.