History

Can we go forward without looking back?

How much longer will we plead and fight for our history to be taught in schools. By history I mean other than slavery and colonisation. We're only taught the aspects of the civil rights movement they want to teach us. For my British people can you name me any British Civil Rights leaders? 

If you can't, don't worry I'm not here to shame or judge. This is my journey of education and discovery too. There comes a point where we have to pick our battles and distribute our energy. Don't take this as me saying black history shouldn't be taught in schools, but while we push for that we can also educate ourselves and learn our history. 

Remember in the fight for decolonising curriculum and teaching black history, we don't want to hear more slavery or more colonialism. We need to break this oppressive narrative and teach ourselves and our children that being a slave, or having your nation's identity stripped from you has never been our only story.

While we're here I'd also like to point out that I am black 12 months of the year. Don't get it twisted we want our history to be celebrated but limiting it to one month of the year? Have you ever stopped to think how crazy it is that somehow they try to fit the history of the oldest civilisation into 28 days? Yet I spent a year at school learning about the feudal system....

We continue to be written out of the history books so why don't we put this edition down, and write it how its meant to be. With a prequel detailing the tales of Mansa Musa, and sequels filled with accomplishments of Nelson Mandela.

Here I'll be posting in detail my exploration of our history, and I mean complete history, not just my history as a Kenyan because all black history is my history. At the end of the day when a person looks at my skin, they do not see Nyanchama, granddaughter of Chief Rori in Molo Kenya, they simply see black.

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