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The Story Teller is the master. Always the master.

I was at a training recently and all the materials we used was in American context meaning it's an American material. The facilitators kept saying, "even though these materials are not from here but these are what we are face with on a daily basis here too".

After the training, I had to ask, "if you kept saying these are what we are also face with here, then how comes you are not contextualizing the material to us for better comprehension and easy to relate with"?. As an organization don't you think it's high time you document such cases to be used here and even abroad?

Must we always wait for these "white people to document things for us"? Why can't we also tell our stories. Why are we not proud of telling our story, history and documenting events that has to do with us?

Nobody could answer me and then the most senior facilitator answered eventually that they will see to that🤷.

Tongjal, this is one of our problems in Africa, we are not proud of our heritage enough to tell the world about it nor document it for the future. Our inferiority complex will always tell us that we are not good enough or our history Is not worth hearing and the white man will come and see everything good with it and help us document them and ofcourse giving credit to himself😢.

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