The education systems globally are in desperate need of revision. History holds a lot of gravity in the narratives that we form about society and our places in it. If we pay attention even to the terminology used in describing the African Holocaust, there has been a lot of desensitisation and bypassing of the atrocities committed by Imperialist forces that paint a different picture about Europe that has implications on power dynamics that we see today. In our collective approach to unraveling African History & Black Studies we are often hesistant to explore our history, as an attempt to purely focus on building a better future. I think it is so important to integrate both; the future and the past both play important roles in what we can do in the present moment.
To my UK family, did you learn about Cecil John Rhodes and King Leopold II at school? I didn't. History doesn't teach about these two genocidal maniacs, it only focuses on Hitler. Because Black genocide isn't worthy of the world's empathy and its still taking place. #sadbuttrue
