12/07/2023
“There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.” (Freire, 1968).
✨Event Alert✨
After a much needed break, i’m excited to continue BLP’s literary club on Chapter Three of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
This chapter focuses on dialogue and the liberation and transformation that can happen when people get together and engage in critical conversations. To Freire, this is the essence of education.
The song playing is “Le Bûcheron” by Congolese artist Franklin Boukaka, who was murdered in a 1972 coup. The chorus, which toggles between Lingala and French says, “o Africa, where is your independence? o Africa, where is your freedom?”
Today, the Congo still suffers from the violence of western imperialism and as Lumumba spoke in 1959 “The West must free Africa as soon as possible.”
Free Congo.
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