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For many years studies and texts about Africa have been guilty of some erroneous ideas about the continent. While the available instructional texts and materials have improved somewhat in recent years, there is reason to believe that some of those misleading ideas have real life in classrooms across the nation. Scholars have identified as the primary mistaken approach to the study of Africa is to continue to treat Africa and its nations as if they were still colonial objects, and not as prime actors on the world stage. Trying to reverse ingrained prejudices and misperceptions is a very difficult job indeed. Four strategies included here are aimed at this. |
