A former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has described the removal of History as a subject in the nation’s educational curriculum as a huge disaster. He said this at the Africa Methodist Council Heads of Conference Summit and Women’s Movement Leadership Summit, where he was the Chairman of the public lecture.....Read The Full Story Here ▶
The federal government had removed history studies from primary and secondary schools’ curriculums from the 2009/2010 academic session.
In 2019, the government however ordered the reintroduction of the subject.
Obasanjo who condemned the removal said it was like “losing one’s memory.”
He said, “I don’t know where we got the idea that we shouldn’t teach history in our school. It is a stupid idea.
“It is like losing one’s memory. It will be a disaster. I don’t know where we got it from. Some people feel there is an aspect of the history we don’t want to hear.
“There are always the bad and the good even in your own life. As you may know, I am a proprietor of a school, and in my school, we must teach History, and it must be taught the right way. You can then decide to take whatever you want to take out of it.
“There is no race in the world that has suffered like the black race, through slavery, slave trade and colonialism.
“In America, some people are now teaching that the slave trade was not a true story – that the white and the black went to the Caribbean in search of greener pastures.
“We were shipped there as slaves. If we allow that to go, we will be enslaved again, and we must not allow that to go.
“I have given myself the task of working with some people to keep the slave trade alive in our history. We must not allow anyone to say the slave trade is not a true story and we must keep it on the front burner.”