ABSTRACT
This commentary addresses the chapters that William H. Watkins and Kassie Freeman prepared for the Commission on Research in Black Education. Since the early 1980s, the IMF and the World Bank have imposed drastic cuts on most African countries. Public health and education have been particularly affected, as they do not represent an immediate source of income that allows African countries to reimburse their debts. The culture of indigenous people is either destroyed or significantly damaged. Language is the vehicle by which all the genius and the history of a people are transmitted. Because indigenous groups were forced into artificially drawn national boundaries, the language of the ruling country was used as the base of the colonial school. New towns mushroomed on the coast and most of them became the capitals of the newly created political entities and the cradle of the colonial schools Europeans established. Black students everywhere need to be taught from their own worldview perspective.
