Philosophy
Afrocentric education has, as one of its tenets, decolonizing the African mind. The central objective in decolonizing the African mind is to overthrow the authority that alien traditions may exercise. In order to achieve this, Eurocentric ideology must be dismantled from everyday African life. This is not to say that the African is to reject foreign tradition, but she or he is to deny its authoritative control in the culture of the African, and denounce allegiance to this authoritative control. Decolonizing the African mind seeks to mentally liberate Africans. Economic and political control can never be complete or effective without mental control. It is then clear that an Afrocentric education is essential based on the idea of mental liberation.
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