Education :: English Literature

EducationEducation in Nervous Conditions.Education is often regarded as beneficial for people and necessary for increase where people willingly accept to get educated. How perpetually inthe case of Africa, fosterage was forced on the population, especially westbound education. Although the Africans had an established medium ofeducation, western education came to replace it and this educationunder the faade of benefiting the society was there to exploit thepeople. Western education destroyed the peoples culture exploitingtheir grounds and their labor. The Africans medium of education wasthere to inculcate the values and culture of the tribes and this wayof educating people was seen as inferior and the Europeans believed inan eradication of that quality of education The traditional Africaneducational systems, in their various forms, served the needs of theAfrican people much more than the colonial educational system evercould.Colonial education brought forward by missionaries was in tended tomake the local people westernized and follow or corporate with thewestern government colonial African education was not based on adesire to educate the African people, but a desire to restrain the abilityto control the African people. Students who follow colonialeducation are torn between the western world and their own Africanworld and they have this feeling of not be to either culture.They dont want to follow their own culture as they feel superior toit and the white world does not accept them either. The Africans haveadopted alongside with the colonial education, the values of thewestern world and this makes these students move away from thetraditional world of Africa. The young generation would feel thatthrough this education they had acquire too many skills to be able toget a proper gob in their society which they consider as backwards andwhen they conk their country for the colonial empire they arerejected.In Dangarembgas Nervous conditions, we are presented with t hewesternization of various characters through education. Britisheducation plays a great role in the novel where Tambu, Babamukuru,Nhamo and Nyasha, all bear the impact of this education. Dangarembgasgives weight to Kachrus alchemy of English where Tambu tells usthat white wizards from the south who were well versed in treacheryand black magic educated her uncle Babamukuru (18-9) Tambu knowsthat the British education is an important way to enable her to evadeher two major biological roles, that of being a woman and of beingblack, which have imprisoned her in her culture. When the novel startsTambu is seen as being happy at her brothers death as this is modify her to go to a western school where the colonial education