Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education | Black Agenda Report

Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

07 Sep 2020

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education

Although famed educator Asa Hilliard died in 2007, his advocacy of “Africanized” teaching and thinking continues to gain adherents. De Reef Jamison, professor of African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says Hilliard drew on the work of West African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral. “Both argued that Africans’ ability to maintain their unique cultural forms, which are based in the past, grows out of the people’s present struggles to advance their group.” Jamison wrote a recent article titled, “Asa Hilliard: Conceptualizing and Constructing an African-Centered Pedagogy.”

Africanized Education

More Stories

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Master Biden Speaks
16 Dec 2020
The civil rights groups’ rather basic requests for voting rights protections and the need for federal intervention to address police brutality were minimized and dismissed by the president-ele
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Racial Capitalism, Black Liberation, and South Africa
16 Dec 2020
The phrase racial capitalism first emerged in the context of the anti-Apartheid and southern African liberation struggles in the 1970s.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
When Austerity’s Chickens Came Home to Roost in the U.S., Bernie and “the Squad” were Unprepared
16 Dec 2020
The theory of change that depicts the likes of Bernie Sanders and AOC as the leaders of the class struggle has failed to materialize in reality.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Imagine: The Town Crier’s Cabinet Selections
16 Dec 2020
Cut plastic cuffs from imaginations— Dream larger in dire situations… IMAGINE every cook governing— every governor cooking up people puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Agenda 2021: Resist the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
16 Dec 2020
It is critical that the Black left understand U.S./European imperialism as a race project, and organize accordingly.