14 February 2025

Lumumba's Africa

I was viewing Prof. P.L.O.Lumumba's 'Lumumba's Africa' on RT TV Channel this morning. The episode featured Nelson Mandela and many others such as Ahmed Kathrada and FW de Klerk who fought against apartheid and paved the way for discrimination free South Africa. The documentary mentioned Mandela's ' Long Walk to Freedom', his association with Gandhiji, Martin Luther King etc. 

In a previous post I have mentioned how discriminatory practices were obvious in South Africa's K-12 Education System during apartheid.

I think that Nelson Mandela's 'Long Walk to Freedom', Gandhiji's 'My Experiments with Truth' should be made as compulsory reading materials in schools and colleges in all developing countries.

It is important to know that Nelson Mandela was against not only white domination but also black domination.

Any kind of domination in any community is bad.  



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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.