Elijah Adebero
Grammy Award winner, Damini Ogulu , a.k.a Burna Boy, has accused schools in Nigeria of not teaching students what they should know.
He argues that students are taught to feel inferior and powerless in the presence of the Whites because they are not taught things they should know about the nation.
Their teachings are mostly cantred on foreign countries and the likes of the Queen of England, he argues in an interview.
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Burna Boy expresses how eager he is to hear the truth about the , like the story before slavery.
He adds that the British government came into Nigeria to brainwash the people into thinking they were slaves, whereas they were kings.
“THEY DON’T TEACH US THAT IN SCHOOLS.
THEY DON’T TELL US ABOUT OURSELVES, THEY TELL US ABOUT YOU GUYS, AND THEY TELL US ABOUT THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
AND YOU KNOW, THEY TELL US A BUNCH OF STUFF THAT HAS NO SIGNIFICANCE TO US.
THAT SHOWS US THAT, PUTS IN OUR HEAD THAT, LOOK, WE HAVE NO POWER.
ALL WE ARE IS INFERIOR TO THESE PEOPLE.
I ALSO WANT THE TRUTH OF OUR HISTORY BEFORE SLAVERY, BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME, AND BEFORE ALL THAT. TO BE THE REAL HISTORY THAT IS TOLD.
THIS IS NOT HOW IT ALWAYS WAS. SOME PEOPLE CAME HERE AND LIED TO YOU AND TOOK THE CROWN OFF YOUR HEAD, AND TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE A SLAVE WHEN THEY CAME HERE AND MET YOU AS A KING.”
