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Why Black People Must Support the Liberation Struggle in S. Africa
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“African Americans become Afrocentric through engagement in social interaction and individual reflection”.
The goal of Afrocentricity and pan-Afrikanism is to unite the African people by forming a unified African state. Models like IBI and African Centered Education utilize the power of education to attain this goal. The destruction of hegemonically white public schools and the rebirth of systems that do work, like IBIs, are only one of the many revolutionary aspects of pan-African nationalism. This concept, combined with the idea that all African people are part of a familial group with a special bond ignited the Shule. Author Felix Boateng emphasizes that African American students are expected “to feel that they must reject the culture of their homes in order to succeed in school” due to the cultural mismatches the child experiences in the two discrete places. He offers that the only way to combat deculturalization is by creating “an approach that would address the inequalities in the public school curriculum and remove the barriers to academic achievement for the masses of African-American children.” He suggests that one of the best ways to do that is via multicultural education, as the goal of this form of education is to help students use their cultural experiences in: learning, accepting and appreciating cultural diversity, and develop their understanding of humanity via these. cultural lenses, similar to the Shule system.
