Zimbabwe: Education, Pan-Africanism, Ubuntu

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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." WHEN one thinks of Pan-Africanism, some of the first things that come to mind are the names associated with the movement. Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Sekou Toure, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Marcus Garvey and WEB Dubois to mention a few.

Most of what is taught about Pan-Africanism is done at tertiary level after all the foundations of learning have been completed. Students leave schools with more knowledge of Western "heroes" who "discovered" and "developed" Africa than the names of those who fought to liberate and unite the continent.

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