Colonization, to the white man, was the best antidote for healing the barbaric pagans of Africa, but in actuality it had worse side effects than “healing powers.” Colonization stripped the identities for the African people causing them to adapt to or accept their oppressor’s abusive ways and belittling their identities to agents of production. Paulo Freire theorizes that for the African persons to liberate their selves, they had to create their own remedies to achieve full freedom, by rejecting all oppressive ideologies that were set by their oppressor, and to liberate their oppressors as.
The journey to self liberation itself is a hard fought one. There are certain roles that both the oppressor and oppressed play in order to achieve full liberation. …show more content…
The man or woman who emerges is a new person, viable only as the oppressor-oppressed contradiction is superseded by the humanization of all people. Or to put it another way, the solution of this contradiction is born in the labor which brings into the world this new being: no longer oppressor nor longer oppressed, but human in the process of achieving freedom. This solution cannot be achieved in idealistic terms. In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform.” (Freire, 49)
The oppressed Africans also have to challenge certain images and structures created by their European oppressor s. One of the structures at the time was patriarchy set by European men that heightened the gender gap between the African men and women. According to Aimé Césaire in the Discourse on Colonialism,
“…Natural economies that have been disrupted – harmonious and viable economies adapted to the indigenous population – about food crops destroyed, malnutrition permanently introduced, agriculture development oriented solely toward the benefit of the metropolitan countries…” (Césaire, …show more content…
This is because the oppressors tend to not understand the hardships the oppressed go through. Beverly Tatum states in “The Complexity of Identity: ‘Who Am I?”, “The truth is that the dominants do not really know what the experiences of the subordinates is. In contrast, the subordinates are very well informed about the dominants.” (Tatum,109) This is because the dominant group is blinded by their authority and influence in the world and the subordinate groups are in the shadows. Freire also states, “Authority must be on the side of freedom not against.” (Freire, 11) Once the oppressor gains liberation and understanding of the oppressed, understanding is made and unity and civility can be accomplished.
Colonization does not allow for equality; the colonizer reaps all the benefits. Once the colonizer is gone, they dry up all of their colonies resources, leaving the African people poor. This sometimes leads the colonizer (Europe) giving the colonized (Africa) false charity, which the people believe it is a sense of security, but it actuality keeps ties between Africa and Europe, where Europe continues to give money just to take it away in the form of a
The journey to self liberation itself is a hard fought one. There are certain roles that both the oppressor and oppressed play in order to achieve full liberation. …show more content…
The man or woman who emerges is a new person, viable only as the oppressor-oppressed contradiction is superseded by the humanization of all people. Or to put it another way, the solution of this contradiction is born in the labor which brings into the world this new being: no longer oppressor nor longer oppressed, but human in the process of achieving freedom. This solution cannot be achieved in idealistic terms. In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform.” (Freire, 49)
The oppressed Africans also have to challenge certain images and structures created by their European oppressor s. One of the structures at the time was patriarchy set by European men that heightened the gender gap between the African men and women. According to Aimé Césaire in the Discourse on Colonialism,
“…Natural economies that have been disrupted – harmonious and viable economies adapted to the indigenous population – about food crops destroyed, malnutrition permanently introduced, agriculture development oriented solely toward the benefit of the metropolitan countries…” (Césaire, …show more content…
This is because the oppressors tend to not understand the hardships the oppressed go through. Beverly Tatum states in “The Complexity of Identity: ‘Who Am I?”, “The truth is that the dominants do not really know what the experiences of the subordinates is. In contrast, the subordinates are very well informed about the dominants.” (Tatum,109) This is because the dominant group is blinded by their authority and influence in the world and the subordinate groups are in the shadows. Freire also states, “Authority must be on the side of freedom not against.” (Freire, 11) Once the oppressor gains liberation and understanding of the oppressed, understanding is made and unity and civility can be accomplished.
Colonization does not allow for equality; the colonizer reaps all the benefits. Once the colonizer is gone, they dry up all of their colonies resources, leaving the African people poor. This sometimes leads the colonizer (Europe) giving the colonized (Africa) false charity, which the people believe it is a sense of security, but it actuality keeps ties between Africa and Europe, where Europe continues to give money just to take it away in the form of a