I did this article a few articles ago but I thought I should revisit it with minor additions. ..... ******[June16 of and to the Africa centered youth]***************** June 16 has left some of us and yours truly in particular, with many questions regarding the education of the indigenous black child of the South of Africa. One of the core issues that informed the June 16 uprising is reportedly the Bantu education act and language enforcement upon the black child, it took consciousness and practical action for the uprising to materialize! It does not occur to me, at least based on the information that I have been exposed to, that the students were at any point preoccupied with the exact geographical location in which their school facilities were located, they seem to have been more preoccupied with the question of enforced language and an act of Bantu education! So based on this, yours truly finds it irrelevant for people to argue that being in a township school necessarily addresses the needs and requests for an Africa centered education, the evidence that this cannot be the case has been observed by yours truly when even the black teachers themselves launches laughter at the scripts of their very own learners’ performance on English and other English conducted technical subjects like mathematics and science! Their[teachers] concluding statements have generally tended to be that ‘’I have done’’ my best, one cannot blame them and one truly sympathizes with their somewhat peculiar conclusions, but at the same time one’s heart bleeds for the victim black learner casualties. At face value appearance, it seems to be true that both the black teacher and learner are at the mercy of each other under such brutal educational conditions as they both depend on the ‘’ability’’ of each other within a white web, not realizing that their respective vocabularies are the core sources of the dilemma as they suffer trying to construct into unnatural entities! The situation is brutal in a sense that, when one truly understands and looks into the operational context of 1976 and its intended consequences, one quickly picks up that the memory and vocabulary of the African child were both intended to be natured into Africa centered production machines that were to produce Africa centered economies, history, culture, communities of higher moral fiber, spirituality, goods and services etc. and that is in essence what those conscious learners/students had in mind. So, whether one ends up in a dysfunctional black township school that teaches Eurocentric based education or ends up in a functional white school that has the same educational outcomes is immaterial since both institutions adds no value to and for the struggle for Africa centered education! The June 16 uprising was not just about the production of a cognitive ‘’bunch’’ of black youth who eventually leave their black communities to go and serve the interest of the white class industrial world, only later to be given artificial praises as being the ones who have ‘’made it’’ and therefore should serve as an ‘’example’’ of what we as the ‘’other’’ black youth should strive for….how pathetic. Africa centered education fused the maths, arts, sciences, languages, spirituality, culture, astronomy, history of oneself etc. to display the completeness of nature and its inherent interconnectivity and the importance of a collective and rock solid black communities, while in its ancient form it has displayed the triumph of human intellect over material things through things like Sphinx, pyramids and Memphite theologies that laid down the deeper philosophical foundations for the discoveries in particle physics for example, therefore, modern Africa centered education should not and cannot be seen as being short in modernity as this has already been addressed. What it should seek now is to produce modern African youth who’s ‘’educational DNA’’ is/will be Africa bound in order for him/her to resolve the issues of his/her own Africa! This youth thus educated will be able to reinterpret June 16 within its intended context by the then African youth. June 16 in its brutal and raw truth must represent to this Africa centered youth, a simple fact that a black youth and child is none existent in both the theoretical and operational psychology of the white world, but the white eyes clearly contradicts this white psychology as the very white men forcefully and in a brutal manner, kills and murders the black youth in order to ensure that his[white men] psychological state and ‘’reality’’ materializes into a physically tangible outcome, with death of a black child as full prove! This understanding will ensure that the black youths will take seriously the question of Africa self-centeredness. Black child you are on your own!
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:26:34 +0000
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