On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. The culture, British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British instruction, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. White were either unable or unwilling to pronounce an African name, and considered it uncivilized to have one. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was NELSON. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me i have no idea. ****NELSON MANDELA****
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:18:05 +0000
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