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The Webinar went into a discussion about how we can take being African and relate it to the education system we have in this country based on what is African. “Who is African and not what is African”(Avivit Cherrington) and what an African education looks like is a part that resonated with me.  The idea that an education system can be pinned to being “African” is something that I did not think of until this webinar. It truly opened my eyes to the notation that inclusion is definitely about the committee and environment surrounding and making up the education system. I feel we are currently struggling with where we identify ourselves physically depending on who colonized us and that’s why we find the use of the English language especially in the environment because of the kind of marginalization that happened. Where there was and still is a lot of silence presses in classrooms where some students are pronouncing English words properly they are kind of ridiculed by their peers. So the Politics of languages is quite a big topic in our country and has done a bit of justice on it in South Africa and you can see that the government is talking about bringing in our African languages and how it is affecting the education system opening it up to cater for more of the population and more Africans. What kind of Ways of knowing that has been at the center has mainly been you know you had to pick up so when you talk about when dealing with and pretending to colonisation we are also thinking about Afrocentrism sound media center what is about Africa. Recognising historical past times and going into the idea and explanation of the Afrocentrism and educating people on what are many people on this topic think is lesser. But people forget that mining was taking place in Mapungubwe before it was discovered in the developed countries and that education was one of the highest in the Mali kingdoms and full education systems were already established. Recovering and creating new forms of Africa. The real question is that can we create an education system that makes students human and can we unite them. At the heart of the education system is for students to be able to create a world suitable for human habitation. (Dr Motsamai Moelefe- speaker) this stood out for me because I can agree and disagree with this stamen Dr. Motsami Moelefe made is that yes, then we all need to be able to create and survive in the world but where I disagree is if the education system is doing that at this point. Yes, there are more academic factors that are being taken care of or covered in the educational system but is academia the only means of creating humans that can survive in the world.    The underlying misconception is that we tend to group people based on their skills or abilities where extraordinary students are said to be more and the average students will not amount to much. We need to get past this idea and think that all students had the same equipment and chances that these humans can create any world they want to create. This is not the level of ability but the level of opportunity. There is also a misconception of thinking that when we refer to Afrocentric that it is people learning the same thing and just knowing that we are from Africa, this is what puts on constates and takes away the system. Even in Africa, we need to recognize that we too are all operating under different educational systems. This will also create conflicts within Africa as each education system caters to that country’s circumstances and what that particular country might need to operate or survive. Therefore we need to recognize that we are different so that we can learn the best way forward as a continent as a whole. And this now links to not how to move students into the mainstream or accommodate them into the mainstream but rather how do we create these opportunities knowing that the student has these barriers.