#Repost @africanancestry • • • • • • Control the narrative and teach the next generation. These words from Miriam Makeba will definitely make you think. . . 📹 • @culturalstudiessociety Historical negationism (also known as “historical revisionism”, and “denialism”) is an attempt to revise the past, placing a false narrative as fact• • The purpose of such an act, besides achieving nationalist and political gains, is to negate the histories of indigenous and colonized peoples, by controlling ideological influence. • • World history did not begin with the arrival of colonialists in different territories. Peoples who have had their histories handed to them in books are now making every effort to reclaim their stories via the oral form denied them under colonialism. • • What stories do you know about yourself? What stories are you passing on to others? • • #CultureMatters #Orality #Storytelling #History #colonialism #negation #discourse #ideology #culturalstudies #westindian #caribbean #indigenous #MiriamMakeba https://www.instagram.com/p/B2kwRsAFweh/?igshid=11q7pxx300dat
