Notions (Malcolm X)
Wow! Just Wow!
Oh my God! I imagined walking off one day in class during a "Britain and France Industrial Growth History" and I'd say, "Well, Britain ain't my racial history so I am not doing this course."
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For this crazy ass country, in this school system????
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I just finished listening to Malcolm X's (The Ballot and the Bullet), (my new hero btw) and I am wondering, "How ever am I studying History and I've never seen Malcolm X in a course outline?"
That man's philosophy should be a lone course all by itself. I sit back, read Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo but dear Good Brother Malcolm X, we don't have a course for him in Nigeria and we are studying History?
When we keep swallowing white history, European this, European that, Russia brouhaha, Asia bla bla bla, and White America (Columbus etc). We don't have Brother Malcolm X or even the dear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Although we chant it repeatedly that the course outline and system of education in Nigeria needs to be changed, I've never felt more strongly about it till this Covid-19 period.
A hell lotta us still in the University do not remember any single thing that we have done prior to the lockdown... Nothing and that's not sugar-coating!
Virtually Nothing!
Every semester, you are stuck with a 20-24 unit loads courses which you basically la cram, la pour. Can we now talk about the GS courses?
Same way I am wondering what for the life of me, the Biology I had done in Secondary school had helped me know, same way I am still wondering what some certain GS courses aids any art person!
We would never need it, and even if we need to browse say, "The father of medicine," I can easily access it from Google faster than my brain can recall the class I attended. Hell, I don't know the father of medicine and I scaled that GS course.
Like every other thing Nigeria is known for, "misplaced priorities" will be the death of us. I can vouch that anyone remembers anything from the South-East Asia course we did or the Russia course we did last year.
Was it not the other day that I was listening to a preacher say something about Alexandria the great and my friend tapped me and said, "Did we do this person?" I legit brust out laughing, cos we did, probably scrapping through it but it adds nothing to our mental capability.
This kind of person is not what is needed in this age, nobody is ever going to require about Alexandria the great that I can't readily browse online.
I get that learning about the western culture is something, but I doubt it's made compulsory for these white people to learn "Nigeria history." Hell, even African history. I doubt any of them want to do that. If I'm being honest, how is it even going to help them?
I really don't see the essence of all the jam-packed courses that we are expected to do each semester. It is draining and it leaves no room for personal improvement, neither does it help that the classroom environment and all of that are far from being comfortable for learning. Not in the slightest.
How do you fuse all of these courses and expect someone to be productive? More so, when due to the fluctuations of the school system, the same courses are rushed but exams are written and it's specified that 'you've completed this course.' Especially in this Nigeria where you are alone in the real sense of the word.
I mean, when you have Marcus Garvey in your course outline, you're probably not even going to fully immerse in knowing the character. It's just swoosh and splash before everything goes back to America whareva. God!
This Covid-19 have opened our eyes to load of stuffs and if after all of this nothing changes (like I am betting that nothing will happen), then it would be more glaring that before that this country is more and more of a joke and what Malcolm X would call "A Chump. Not only a chump but a traitor to your race."
Now, ain't that the truth?
I'm going back to more of Malcolm X. He stirs an activism that I haven't seen elsewhere. His fearlessness is what I aspire to develop more in the face of this godforsaken world!
Massive Respect, Brother Malcolm X.
Your legacy is everything!
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