History of the 1619 project7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() People who do not know where they are coming from are apt not only to repeat the mistakes of the past but to be afflicted all life-long with a sense of identity confusion and lack of direction. There is general agreement that a core requirement for good education of young people is a thorough understanding of the past. How for instance do you treat the Civil War, or the Asaba Massacre, or the Kano pogroms? Other people have suggested that the anomaly might be due to difficulty in getting historians to agree to a common version of history that could be equally taught to an eight-year-old Ibo girl in Awka and a Fulani lass of the same age in Sokoto. ‘They’ did not want future generations to learn about the horrible injustices that have led the nation to its present dire straits. It is an oft-repeated complaint in intellectual circles in Nigeria that some people deliberately took the study of History out of the national educational curriculum several years ago to keep the sordid details of Nigeria’s past out of the minds of present and future generations. ![]()
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