"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. - Steven Biko
The generation of Steve Biko and of 1976 resembles a common factor for me, that is the power of education. Education can either make or kill a country. They (the likes of the struggle icon Nelson Mandela) warned us Africans not crafting their children in their own image as they were fighting a brutal and oppressive system.
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Madela
I fear for Azania, the land of warriors, a seven today we still don't prioritize education, and we let other races craft our children in their own image, as in the past 20 years. The principles that our forefathers lived for, are being used against us to further narrow neo-liberal agendas and ideals that Tambo, Sobukwe, Mandela and Biko lived for are being used fro the perversion of the original doctrine. They are being misquoted to entrench their liberal ideology, to ensure that it retains hegemony, especially among-st the youth.
It saddens me that we have opened a vacuum by not preserving and utilising the ideals that Biko stood for, by not ensuring that the proper history of our leaders is told, and, most importantly, by not living by the ideals that they believed in. It saddens me that we are not taking one step forward and two steps back.
I fear for Azania, the land of warriors, a seven today we still don't prioritize education, and we let other races craft our children in their own image, as in the past 20 years. The principles that our forefathers lived for, are being used against us to further narrow neo-liberal agendas and ideals that Tambo, Sobukwe, Mandela and Biko lived for are being used fro the perversion of the original doctrine. They are being misquoted to entrench their liberal ideology, to ensure that it retains hegemony, especially among-st the youth.
It saddens me that we have opened a vacuum by not preserving and utilising the ideals that Biko stood for, by not ensuring that the proper history of our leaders is told, and, most importantly, by not living by the ideals that they believed in. It saddens me that we are not taking one step forward and two steps back.
"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
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