“This book is a very good introduction to the connections between education and colonialism, thanks particularly to the author’s mastery of a wide body of scholarly literature.” • Choice

“We Come as Members of the Superior Race interrogates European colonialism and neocolonial policies, searching deep into the history of Africans’ encounters with Europeans and the dark ideas that the latter held of Africans as a backdrop for exploring detrimental education policies”. • Martha Donkor, West Chester University

Westerners have long represented Africans as “backwards,” “primitive,” and “unintelligent,” distortions which have opened the door for American philanthropies to push their own education agendas in Africa. We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the origin and history of these dangerous stereotypes and western “infantilization” of African societies, exploring how their legacy continues to inform contemporary educational and development discourses. By viewing African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, these problematic stereotypes continue to influence education policy and research in Sub-Sahara Africa today.

Subject: Educational Studies Development Studies Sociology

Area: Africa

LC: LC191.8.A42 M48 2021

BISAC: SOC042000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Developing Countries; EDU000000 EDUCATION/General