We Come as Members of the Superior Race: Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

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We Come as Members of the Superior Race: Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Westerners have long represented Africans as “backwards,” “primitive,” and “unintelligent,” distortions which have opened the door for American philanthropies to push their own education agendas in Africa. We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the origin and history of these dangerous stereotypes and western “infantilization” of African societies, exploring how their legacy continues to inform contemporary educational and development discourses. By viewing African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, these problematic stereotypes continue to influence education policy and research in Sub-Sahara Africa today.

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978-1789209136

Publication Date

2020

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Keywords

european colonialism, neocolonial policies, education policy

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African Languages and Societies | Education

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Mfum-Mensah, O. (2021). We come as members of the superior race: Distortions and education policy discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa. Berghahn Books.

We Come as Members of the Superior Race: Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

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