Some disquieting reflections on Africa and imperialism
- highbrandon202
- May 28, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 6, 2021
Germany's recognition of its genocide in South-West Africa and Macron's recognition of French complicity in the genocide in Rwanda are very belated acknowledgements of guilt. This is the tip of a terrible iceberg, which includes comparable mass murder in Tasmania, the Congo, and all aspects of Atlantic enslavement.
Perhaps the Global North might come to recognise a little more urgently that the lives of living Africans matter. Vaccinate the Global South. Cancel debts. Ensure that Africans have a voice in the IMF and World Bank. That would be a start, but only a start.
A fundamental revision of education may be necessary if the Global North is to recognise Africans as full human beings, endowed with every complex human attribute.
This is an interesting introduction to a debate. And a very important one. In relation to your point - that the lives of living Africans matter -
What should children in the UK learn in school about Africa? In geography, in history, in art ... the question can be applied to all subjects to a greater or lesser degree.
Do we, in your view, have to 'decolonise' the curriculum for these apologies to mean anything other than cynical headline grabbing antics of desperate politicians?