It might, in some eventuality, become incumbent upon us Africans to prove our claims and accusations against the by-gone colonialists for 'under education' and 'de-education'.
Almost shamefully, it has become the weird practice, in Africa, to heap blames here and abouts..
Popularly now mostly refered to as the 'blame game'.. is now (the) fully fledged Governmental and political, even parliamentary by-word! That 'the colonialists under-educated us' - this elements of modernism in Africa
is messing-up our 🤔 thinking! Misleading our young, who now subsequently make use of this mindless 'blame game' as a brand new phenomenon! As a cover-up of youth inadiquacies and, as a stepping stone for climbing onto the pedastal of political venture - by also blaming those incumbent in political practice.
Someone has to tell us all, what were the causes of Ugand's de-education for example - and how the country lost its 'pathway'..
IN MY OBSERATION:
It was back in the 1960s..(research it yourself) as my generation shifted from primary to Junior secondary, and was about to move into Junior two - that suddenly and dramatically, government abolished Junior two!
Relegated Junior One, back down to addition on primary - creating a 7 class primary level, instead of the previous 6 class primary level.
Well, just like all major governmental policy shifts - debates mashroomed after this one.
In the process, I too, learnt that in some early years.. (research it yourself) government had dropped what was then known as 'Junior 3'!
Those were structures of education formulated and set-up by colonial protectorate government, removed thus, by the first post 1962 decolonialisation government of Ug.
Back then, as a first post independence government it was powerful - if a sin had been commited by that policy shift, it wasn't immediately understandable!
But that process of popular "change" celebrated by all and sundry, on account of freedom from colonialism, was to cause the British to pack their "Cambridge School Certificate" and leave!
The new post colonial 'Caricuulum Development Authority' - to the chagrin of the foreign diplomats, insisted on developing our own sylabus books and teaching techniques!
The actual process of 'under under education' had began.
Uganda's resident business community Indians, had moved fast to create their own private schools and, continued teaching their young along the old 'Cambridge School Certificate' colonial education formula.
Conclusively: in the prideful process, we just under-educated ourselves!
In Masindi, of the mid-1960s, I briefly attended Pillais Secondary School' an Indian school, there I was introduced to American famous Author Samuel Clements - Mark Twain books.
Later on in life, I encountered 'Animal Farm'! A chosen - by Ugandan Caricluum Development! I mean, how can we Ugandans continue to mindlessly blame the British for our own 'under education'
??? End.
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