Decolonising Education

Decolonising Education”(DE) is a six-part series that challenges audiences to reflect on how to replace an untruthful colonial education system with a decolonised and truthful one. The series question the existence of truthful education and examine how a truthful historical, artistic, humanistic, scientific and technological curriculum is constituted among the many false curricula or education systems.

The series explore how countries such as Ethiopia, which was never conquered or colonised, adopted a British colonial curriculum, thus importing British educational colonialities or values. It also examines how Nigeria rejected its own pre-colonial histories by refusing to teach them, resulting in a denial of Africa’s ancient and pre-colonial histories.

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Decolonising Education reveals how Africans have been traumatised by the negative things they learn about themselves and their societies; and have been seeking questionable benefits in the West, many dying along the way.

The series also reveals how British Commonwealth countries have similar curricula that, for the most part, ignore indigenous pre-colonial histories and identify with counterfactual colonial perceptions. It argues that curricula in Latin American countries are the most decolonised, because of successive discoveries of numerous advanced civilisations in the region.

DE targets students, writers, researchers, journalists, educators and society at large. It includes revelatory discussions, analyses and general descriptions. Stylistically, it relies on archival footage, newspaper articles, social media feeds and animatics, to reconstruct historical events. Comparisons are made with David Attenborough’s groundbreaking documentaries that change global attitudes towards climate change and the natural world.

The series is a production of Best UK Images Production Ltd. Copyright is owned by Claudine Boothe.