Xidzundzu the western incidence on traditional teaching practices in Mozambique

Abstract

This paper is the result of a reflection developed by a young Mozambican and a young Brazilian researcher. The text style has orality as a mean to weave the catharsis of the authors who can not speak of this without resorting to inherited knowledge from elders to take a stand on something that bothers them latently: the EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. Thus, the argument runs several social instances from the Maputan universe, going through the western basic education system, which devalues values and socio-cultural practices of African peoples in order to achieve an analysis of past and current forms of coercion of traditional practices related to the ancestors. In this perspective, it rebels a resistance counterdiscourse of peoples and ethnic groups who seek to restore their identities and subjectivities in tension with what European system still persists to ravish. In the condition of former colonies, Mozambican ethnic communities resist with their different languages and ancient cultural practices - some of which are already endangered - yet the written-centric and Eurocentric investment has not rested in the attempts of decimating us.