Repensando a educação em Angola na perspectiva decolonial

Abstract

This study amied to analyze the impacts of colonization and coloniality on Angolan education from a decolonial perspective. This was a bibliographical and documentary research study with qualitative analysis, based on decolonial and Afrocentric references. Primary and secondary sources were used to collect data, such as texts discussed in master's classes, laws governing education in Angola, books, theses, dissertations and articles and mediatic texts as the main sources of analysis. Thus, the analyses and interpretations of the data affirm that the colonial invasion of Africa attempted to neutralize the entire local culture, through a racist, segregationist and inhumane education. Through the myth of modernity, they managed to divide and colonize Africans. Another important fact that the analyses reveal is that, after the colonial period, Europeans continued to subjugate Africans and other non-European peoples, manifesting themselves through the coloniality of power, being and knowledge. Coloniality is the global logic of dehumanization, which even with the independence of the former colonies, continues to operate in different forms, resulting in the denial of the African being and in an educational system riddled with problems, historically marked by the colonial project of education and still subjugated to coloniality. I therefore advocate a liberating education that encourages subjects to consciously construct identities and possibilities of existing and acting in the world beyond the Eurocentric and hegemonic form.