Sedimentation of Meaning and Projection: Education and the Memory of the Land

AUTEUR : KONDJO DIDDY BROSSALA

ABSTRACT

Education must be a means to creation and self-creation of both the educator and the educated. The words of education must speak in context and the world in which educational project is carried out must become a hermeneutical field. Education as a way of strategically looking at the world necessarily brings about historicity. Africans need to build up a new educational model that breaks away from the old colonial functionalist paradigm. Education must be a political act; it must strive toward the formation of a consciousness that can have an impact on society and on the structuring of the social reality. Education is thus a means to the empowerment of individuals and of society at large.