ABSTRACT
The tom family, some members dead, the inability to fully integrate back into one's home and previous lifestyle, the emotional scars as well as the rude awakening from a reverie of false memories all provide a good example of the far-reaching effects of the war, and the earnest need for post-war individual healing and general nation-building. Evidently, from apartheid, society has had to seek a path of reconstructing itself by way of multilayered systems of reconciliation and cohesion. The normalisation of the foreign Western civilisation in education, which has gained the "standardised" position and yardstick of measure overtime, in the gaping absence of any local African civilisation and knowledge system, is the anomaly with which postwar Africa continues to grapple. After the protracted wars prior to the Verwoerdian era, colonialism, slavery, apartheid and the "displaced civilization" trajectory, which begat inequality, xenophobia and cultural conflicts, a number of questions arise.
