The Executive Director of PANAFEST Foundation, Rabbi Kohain Halevi says Education in Africa must be reformed to help Africans reclaim their Heritage and Identity for the benefit of the continent.
According to him, the rich values of Africans if passed down to generations through education will help indigenes to be abreast with the African values and history to gain independence.
Rabbi Kohain Halevi, in an interview with Mary Ama Bawa on the Atlantic Wave on 27th May on the relevance of the Annual African Union Day commemoration, said governments must be able to put together an educational system that is aligned with how the future of Africa is going to be.
He said “there is two component and one is we have to recover our own self-respect and our own dignity by knowing who it is that we are as African people. Pursue history from our own lenses and not what other people have defined African history as theirs and then we also we need to have an educational system that is able to equip the new generation to be able to manage the affairs of our nation”.
However, the head of the History Department at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. De-Valera Botchway on the same platform said “our inability question the status quo is a contributing factor to the slow rate of development on the African continent”.
He believes it is important to encourage the next generation to think critically and question wrong doings in our societies.
“The first point of real knowledge is that point where you ask why? We should be educating people not miseducate them. We should be educating them to have the power to ask why is it that other people are living well and we are not living well. There is a certain process of normalization that which is not normal occurs and then becomes normal so we are not asking questions because we have been taught not to ask questions” he added.
SOURCE: ATLMNEWSROOM / ROSEMOND ASMAH
