PLO Lumumba EXPOSES Colonial Education in Africa: A System Designed to Disarm the African Mind

🧠 PLO Lumumba EXPOSES Colonial Education in Africa: A System Designed to Disarm the African Mind

“We were taught to admire Napoleon, not Shaka. To quote Shakespeare, not speak Swahili. To solve for X but never question who wrote the equation.” – Prof. PLO Lumumba

Africa’s education system was never designed to liberate; it was engineered to produce obedient subjects for colonial economies. Prof. Lumumba doesn’t mince words. He exposes how our classrooms became sites of indoctrination, where African children are taught to glorify foreign heroes, memorize imported histories, and speak in tongues that once silenced their ancestors.

We graduate fluent in colonial languages but illiterate in our own civilizations. We quote European philosophers but know nothing of our indigenous wisdom. We learn to beg for aid, not build with sovereignty. Lumumba warns that this intellectual dependency is the root of Africa’s stagnation and the gateway to re-colonization.

Democracy, governance, and even development models are imported wholesale, without adaptation to African realities. The result? Fragile states, elite capture, and endless cycles of dysfunction. Our brightest minds are trained to mimic, not innovate. To serve, not lead.

The classroom must teach Shaka, not just Shakespeare. It must honor Imhotep, not just Einstein. It must speak to our soil, our spirit, our story.

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