School vs Education. 1.5 (Finale)
Hello, everyone! How’s it hanging at your end‽ Still on school vs education. Let’s pick it up where we left off.
P.S: If you haven’t read the prequels, pls do. There’s a link to them at the bottom of this page.
Anyway, let’s get right to it.
School vs Education (Continuance)
Well, maybe I can help
and just throw out there some names;
Mary Seacole, a Crimean war nurse,
Mary prince, a black female author,
to be precise, she was the first,
Bernie Grant, influential local activist and respected MP.
Trevor McDonald, one of the first black
ITN journalists to hit the TV screen,
Jamal Edwards and SBTV,
and when Fuse ODG broght the Azonto dance to the UK
and my foot swayed to the left and to the right
like the wipers of a car’s windscreen,
and DJ Abrante brought Afrobeats to the streets.
See, it’s funny when we think of our childhood memories;
a man who was actually funny, Lenny Henry.
Many others and the list continues;
Marcus Garvey, Haile Selassie, Bob Marley, Ignatius Sancho,
Tupac, Fela Kuti, Muhammed Ali, Maya Angelou RIP,
Kwame Nkruma, the first Ghanian President
who retained independence from England,
the Windrush ship which brought Caribbeans to Britain.
So much to learn in just one month,
a tip of the iceberg, a tiny grace.
And what was the first black Roman emperor’s name?
Years passed and we are still caught up in the same Civil Rights age,
which isn’t bad if we learn something new,
but we don’t!
And we are not being taught enough about our culture,
so there’s no one else to blame but you,
and if you are not, then who?
Questions, questions, questions.
If you are not teaching us these things,
then I’m inclined to believe it’s because you don’t know.
No!
You are the teacher, your job is to teach, so you must know.
Piece Credit: Originally written and performed by Samuel King.
Piece Title: What I wasn’t Taught in School.
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