@BelloGaladanchi 🎯. In a nutshell, our school system produces highly educated servants for the western civilization. Put their by the westerners, it must fulfil their goals not the goals of the colonised. Language is the foundation of everything, get it wrong and everything goes to shit💩
@BelloGaladanchi Because the education system is not decolonised, it contains the goals of other people, that's why education in Africa hasn't removed the African from the bottom of economic, social and political ladders. It only ensures the production of highly educated servants of Europe.
@BelloGaladanchi The primary goal of education is to ensure a community's survival and prosperity. To achieve this, education should align with the people's needs and safeguard their interests. African nations, including Nigeria, should prioritize the decolonization of their education systems.
In the wake of colonialist-introduced modern education, we seem to have lost sight of its profound purpose. Education isn't just about completion and employment; it's a beacon guiding a people towards securing their survival and prosperity.
What’s the essence of having a degree certificate if the government can’t provide you with a good job?
You spend all those sleepless years pursuing & acquiring a degree certificate only to end up working for N30k - N50k monthly while politicians without a degree steal a living
@tahirgidado@Elyusuph@Dr_AliyuTilde Agreed. The indigenous system must evolve too by absorbing the good parts of the colonial system. Tsangaya suffers the same fate as Masarautu, Boko brought by colonialists rubbished Tsangaya, and here we are suffering the consequences and slaving for them through their boko.
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons Nothing but more peace if we add these 4 languages. Nobody is forcing anybody to speak a language that he doesn't want. English is there for those who want to use it. After the language policy can be made to favor minorities. The new language of instruction policy is a start.
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons If you had been looking at the bigger picture you would have known that giving the Biafra and Oduduwa regions power and representation by allowing them to use their languages at all levels of government only serves to quench their thirst for secession.
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons Why not add? How many people speak English in Nigeria? Less than 30%. Why will we keep putting ourselves at a disadvantage when we can carry most of the population along and benefit more by including Hausa, Pidgin, Yoruba, and Igbo as official languages?
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons By the way, you keep saying using one of our ethnic languages. That is not the argument. The argument is, along with English, we should add at least 4 more official languages. Those that cannot speak any of the added national languages are good to go with English.
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons They had their time. That is history. We can only learn from it and move on. So anything these people didn't do we shouldn't do? Come on man. These people aren't perfect either. They had their shortcomings.
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons Why will the plan fail? Here is what will happen. Underdeveloped languages and smaller communities will fall back on more developed larger communities. If they don't like that, they will retain English. In both cases their languages will die of. But others will thrive.
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons How can we search for a common language without getting involved in linguistic imperialism is the question we should answer. It is vital to our survival as a nation. Dismissing the issue of language by imposing a colonial language is lazy and does even more harm than your worries
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons I am fully aware of the linguistic genocides in Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Brazil, and China. A common language is one major factor in the development of a nation. Did the end justify the means in these countries?
@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons Thank you for mentioning India and Indonesia. One can go ahead to check the language politics there but what is clear is that these countries are not foolish enough to adopt a colonial language while thrashing their own. One of their national languages is official.
@IzimaBertrand@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons What I am saying simply is, instead of giving power to the colonialists by imposing their language, to the detriment of your people. Why not give the power back to your people? Adopting your languages means the survival and development of those languages and indeed your people.
@IzimaBertrand@Eghosa10513849@Bulamacartoons These types of arguments never make sense to the sentinels of the Greco-Latin pedestal who the colonialist bourgeoisie implanted in their minds what is sensible and what to defend. Anyway, maybe one day, and I hope that day comes, you will see the sense of keeping power within.