Lord Macaulay’s addressed the British parliament on the 2nd of Feb 1835, and said this about Africa “I have traveled across the length and breadth of Africa, and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral value, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this Nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore I propose we replace old and ancient education system, her culture. For if the Africans think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture, and they will become what we want them to be, a truly dominated nation.”
This will not end with quoting Britain’s Lord Macaulay. Members of this Council will make their individual (and then, corporate) proclamations and declarations. Knowing what Lord Macaulay said in his above outburst, the horizontal, vertical, perpendicular, and lateral curricula African entities should use will come from this council. Universities across Africa will subscribe to them to ensure that the damage already done by Lord Macaulay and his ilk will end, and Africa’s indigenous ways will thrive again as they did before the emergence of the destroyer. Here is to the strengthening of ourselves now and to the future of the African children and their prestigious continent.”
