AFRICANISING WESTERNISM
AFRICANISING WESTERNISM
Every form of structure or system that
you see was built on a foundational intelligence that is unique to a people. So
even though all living things use oxygen, the foundational framework of how the
oxygen benefits the organism is contingent on how the animal was designed to
function.
Science is an introspection into the truth and laws of nature. Technology is taking advantage these truths in order to make live better on earth. Its little utility to bog a man with the astronomical truths of the constellations and galaxies except that truth has aided the development of the Gps and lasers that will make his life better.
The whole of modern civilization as we know it was built on an intellectual revolution that happened in the 17th century in Europe. That revolution led to the technologies that birthed the industrial revolution. Amongst other things, it made life better for average people and increased our life span. But it also brought an industrial society framework to Africa without the accompanying intellectual framework.
You see, when they were having their intellectual debates and reconstruction, they were not thinking about you. Which is why;
1. In their educational foundational framework, everything started form the Greeks (the Greeks did some amazing things but it didn't start with them). The intellectual legacy of Africa was left behind. They named every lands and rivers in Africa after themselves. Just imagine!
2. Their textile industrial designs did know how hot your whether can be or the aesthetic coloration of your clothing and culture. It's so bad that another man's wedding traditional attire is being used by us in our weddings.
3. Their industrial automobile production designed a lot of the automobiles towards their habits and lifestyle. Nobody understood the African reality of the need to carry a lot of big cargoes together with people. Our industrial assembly framework has not even been able to rethink this.
4. Their interior and exterior decor aesthetics does not understand the bright, bold and geometric designs of African designs. And many more.
At KULENGA Research Lab, we are on a mission to Africanize westernism; incorporate our African identity and intelligence into the conventional goods, systems and services. The law of efficiency states that the effectiveness of a system is measured relative to its performance in reversible conditions.
So while our educational curriculum was okay to produce civil servants that can maintain the systems that the white colonialists brought, it failed when they were gone and the need to produce people that can solve the problems in their environment arose.
Science is an introspection into the truth and laws of nature. Technology is taking advantage these truths in order to make live better on earth. Its little utility to bog a man with the astronomical truths of the constellations and galaxies except that truth has aided the development of the Gps and lasers that will make his life better.
The whole of modern civilization as we know it was built on an intellectual revolution that happened in the 17th century in Europe. That revolution led to the technologies that birthed the industrial revolution. Amongst other things, it made life better for average people and increased our life span. But it also brought an industrial society framework to Africa without the accompanying intellectual framework.
You see, when they were having their intellectual debates and reconstruction, they were not thinking about you. Which is why;
1. In their educational foundational framework, everything started form the Greeks (the Greeks did some amazing things but it didn't start with them). The intellectual legacy of Africa was left behind. They named every lands and rivers in Africa after themselves. Just imagine!
2. Their textile industrial designs did know how hot your whether can be or the aesthetic coloration of your clothing and culture. It's so bad that another man's wedding traditional attire is being used by us in our weddings.
3. Their industrial automobile production designed a lot of the automobiles towards their habits and lifestyle. Nobody understood the African reality of the need to carry a lot of big cargoes together with people. Our industrial assembly framework has not even been able to rethink this.
4. Their interior and exterior decor aesthetics does not understand the bright, bold and geometric designs of African designs. And many more.
At KULENGA Research Lab, we are on a mission to Africanize westernism; incorporate our African identity and intelligence into the conventional goods, systems and services. The law of efficiency states that the effectiveness of a system is measured relative to its performance in reversible conditions.
So while our educational curriculum was okay to produce civil servants that can maintain the systems that the white colonialists brought, it failed when they were gone and the need to produce people that can solve the problems in their environment arose.
While the conventional designs of so many
products being imported into the continent was okay when we had nothing but a
subsistence life of agriculture, most of them are losing relevance and effectiveness as
the need for us to participate in their production, scaling and deeper impact is arising.
While the systems and institutions we had
was inspired and brought in by western influence and currently, the effects of
globalization is forcing us to maintain these ideas the way they are, we will
always be at the tail of global domination because you can never win a man at
his own turf. Things can only change and give us and our brands a competing chance when you bring in your own uniqueness and
identity. Think about it, most of our big brands are plugged into headquarters in new york, tokyo, london etc.
The need to Africanize westernism in our products, systems and services is not an African traditional feeling of the need to go back to our roots. But a pragmatic modern need to become more globally competitive and more locally efficient.
The need to Africanize westernism in our products, systems and services is not an African traditional feeling of the need to go back to our roots. But a pragmatic modern need to become more globally competitive and more locally efficient.
In this pathway our first product is to create an Afrocentric educational framework for African scholars. The first prototype we have produced is the mathematics textbook for secondary schools. Its Afrocentric, effective and better than the best texts in the market in delivering mathematical knowledge.
It's a pity that African scholars does not get to know about Africans contribution to the development of the history of mathematics because no one included it in our books;
The oldest mathematical artifacts that
built the intellectual framework in which the number theory is built was found
in Africa, like the Lebombo bone. The oldest table of prime numbers; the Ishango
bone is found in Africa and may more. A lot of the mathematicians that changed
the world of mathematics with exciting math discoveries that you have never
heard about are black people. And oh wait! It is not a history book. It was
innovated against the best mathematics texts, with real life mathematical
illustrations and applications, easy to understand splintered exercises poised to
demystify mathematics and curiosity math checks to inspire new mathematical
thinking and discoveries. It's not about just producing students that can pass
exams and pass WAEC. But students that can apply mathematics to solve real life
problems in their environments. We want to see new mathematical laws and
equations with African names.
Remember Afrocentric innovation intelligence is not about going back to the past. But creating something new and effective for the future.
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