Education :: English Literature

informationEducation in Nervous Conditions.Education is often regarded as beneficial for population and necessary foradvancement where people willingly accept to devil educated. However inthe case of Africa, development was forced on the population, especially westward education. Although the Africans had an established medium ofeducation, western education came to replace it and this educationunder the faade of benefiting the society was there to exploit thepeople. Western education destroyed the peoples husbandry exploitingtheir intellect and their labor. The Africans medium of education wasthere to discipline the values and culture of the tribes and this wayof educating people was seen as inferior and the Europeans believed inan eradication of that type of education The traditional Africaneducational systems, in their various forms, served the needs of theAfrican people much more than the compound educational system evercould.Colonial education brought forward by missionari es was intended tomake the local people westernized and follow or bodied with thewestern government compound African education was not found on adesire to educate the African people, but a desire to lease the abilityto control the African people. Students who follow colonialeducation are torn between the western world and their possess Africanworld and they have this feeling of not belonging to either culture.They dont want to follow their own culture as they feel superior toit and the purity world does not accept them either. The Africans haveadopted alongside with the colonial education, the values of thewestern world and this makes these students coin away from thetraditional world of Africa. The young generation would feel that finished this education they had acquire too many skills to be able toget a proper gob in their society which they consider as backwards andwhen they leave their country for the colonial empire they arerejected.In Dangarembgas Nervous conditions, w e are presented with thewesternization of various characters through education. Britisheducation plays a great role in the novel where Tambu, Babamukuru,Nhamo and Nyasha, all bear the rival of this education. Dangarembgasgives weight to Kachrus alchemy of English where Tambu tells usthat white wizards from the south who were well versed in treacheryand black fast one educated her uncle Babamukuru (18-9) Tambu knowsthat the British education is an important way to enable her to turn offher two major biological roles, that of being a woman and of beingblack, which have imprisoned her in her culture. When the novel startsTambu is seen as being well-chosen at her brothers death as this isenabling her to go to a western school where the colonial education