African Centered Learning

When Afrocentric people complain about the education system in the western world, they will often say that it is not African centered. Outsiders have no idea what this means. What does African centered learning look like in real time and space? Beyond the obvious fact that African people should learn more about Africa, the current presentation is flawed. We now learn in fragments, but African people are wholistic by nature, so we absorb information in the whole more easily than we do in part.


Let us use wholism on the current economic depression. If we were learning in an African way we would study it in all of our classes. In English class we would study literature about the economically deprived. In Math class we would study economics and private vs. public industries. In Government class we would study the difference between plutocracy and democracy. In History class we would study what happened during the last depression. In Art class we would create work that reflects how we see our society in the midst of this depression. In Music class we would create music that reflects and sustains us during this depression. We would learn these things together until our understanding was complete.