Brother Vik,
Thanks for sharing this important essay on teaching African History in US prisons. It was very insightful and inspirational. I have a similar project in mind. I especially liked the instructor's use of Rodney to show that slavery and colonialism also had specific and negative consequence for "those left behind." I was also intrigued by the connections the students made between colonialism in Africa and colonialism in Asia and the South Pacific. Sankofa is actually a three word contraction which literally reads "return, go, take." It's an abbreviated form of the proverb "Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi" - it is not not wrong to go back and get what you have forgotten.
kzs
On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 5:50:16 PM UTC-5, Vik Bahl wrote:
-- Thanks for sharing this important essay on teaching African History in US prisons. It was very insightful and inspirational. I have a similar project in mind. I especially liked the instructor's use of Rodney to show that slavery and colonialism also had specific and negative consequence for "those left behind." I was also intrigued by the connections the students made between colonialism in Africa and colonialism in Asia and the South Pacific. Sankofa is actually a three word contraction which literally reads "return, go, take." It's an abbreviated form of the proverb "Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi" - it is not not wrong to go back and get what you have forgotten.
kzs
On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 5:50:16 PM UTC-5, Vik Bahl wrote:
Hey folks—Please find attached Nathaniel Moore's article about teaching African history in San Quentin prison, from the latest volume of the journal New Directions for Community Colleges, focused on higher education in prisons: (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
com/doi/10.1002/cc.2015.2015. ), edited by Rob Scott of the Cornell Prison Education Program (robs...@cornell.edu).issue-170/issuetoc?campaign= woletoc
This chapter describes the author's experience teaching ethnic studies inside a unique California prison, and calls for college-in-prison educators to engage culturally appropriate curricula to realize the full transformative potential of the prison classroom.
Vik Bahl
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