Education :: English Literature

EducationEducation in unquiet Conditions.Education is practically regarded as beneficial for people and necessary foradvancement where people willingly accept to get ameliorate. However inthe case of Africa, information was force on the population, especially Hesperian development. Although the Africans had an established medium of pedagogics, western education came to replace it and this educationunder the faade of benefiting the society was there to deed thepeople. Western education destroyed the peoples culture exploitingtheir psyche and their labor. The Africans medium of education wasthere to inculcate the value and culture of the tribes and this wayof educating people was seen as inferior and the Europeans believed inan annihilation of that type of education The traditional Africaneducational systems, in their versatile forms, served the needs of theAfrican people much more than the colonial educational system evercould.Colonial education brought forward by missionarie s was intend tomake the local people westernized and follow or corporate with thewestern government colonial African education was not based on a require to educate the African people, but a desire to pee the abilityto control the African people. Students who follow colonialeducation are torn between the western world and their own Africanworld and they have this discovering of not belonging to either culture.They arrogatet want to follow their own culture as they feel superior toit and the white world does not accept them either. The Africans haveadoptive alongside with the colonial education, the values of thewestern world and this makes these students move out from thetraditional world of Africa. The young generation would feel thatthrough this education they had acquire too many skills to be able toget a proper gob in their society which they consider as backward andwhen they leave their country for the colonial empire they arerejected.In Dangarembgas Nervous conditions, we are presented with thewesternization of various characters through education. Britisheducation plays a enceinte role in the novel where Tambu, Babamukuru,Nhamo and Nyasha, all bear the impact of this education. Dangarembgasgives weight to Kachrus alchemy of English where Tambu tells usthat white wizards from the southbound who were well versed in treacheryand black magic educated her uncle Babamukuru (18-9) Tambu knowsthat the British education is an important way to enable her to evadeher both major biological roles, that of being a woman and of beingblack, which have imprisoned her in her culture. When the novel startsTambu is seen as being happy at her brothers death as this isenabling her to go to a western school where the colonial education