Appropriating Colonialism in the Making of a Nigeria-Centric Educational System

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  In Poster Session: Culture, Leadership, and Education in Africa and the Caribbean

Abstract

This study argues that to re-imagine Nigerian education is to engage in a decolonization of the mind, as a form of epistemic disobedience against the epistemological imperialism and epistemicide engendered by neo-colonialism and colonialism. It advances a reclamation of core elements of the indigenous system of education that were useful pedagogical tools before the advent of colonialism and combining them with valuable components of western education to create a hybrid system that is culturally responsive, pedagogically regenerative, quality-based, skills-enhancing and technologically advanced.

Author

• Joan.Osa Oviawe, Washington State University