Our contributor is a lady living in Europe with passion for Afrocentric education

I am a lady with my roots from the continent of Africa. My son was 8 and we were travelling to Greece through Germany with my husband. My son and I were, at that moment, the only black people on board the flight.

When we were walking through security, my husband (who is white), walked behind us with our passports. As we were walking in front, the police suddenly came to us and said intimidatingly: “Can you show us your passports?”

I said, “My husband is behind and let us wait him because he has them”. When he finally caught up with us, I told him that the security wanted to see our passports.

My husband then asked them why, because it is a European flight and why have they only selected my son and I.

The police couldn’t answer, they excused themselves and left the competition. My husband didn’t give the passports in the end of course but it was clearly a very shocking incident.

My advice

It’s education. Education is everything. You engage children when they are young. At times, [cultures that are elite] want to maintain their supremacy, and the way that they can do that is through education. They are indirectly teaching their children that they are superior.

The Western world has refused to learn anything about Africa. If it is taught, there is a high chance that it is biased. In school, my son was taught about the Second World War and he told me about what the atrocities that happened.

But if the education system taught children about the colonization to Indonesia, the Caribbean, South Africa etc... If the system could teach these histories to their children, then maybe children would start looking at others differently, because what the system has done is that they have made a propaganda out of their history.

Hence they never teach about the atrocities that happened to others, or what they might have did themselves to others, so the children grow up thinking they’re superior than others.