Makoko 2035: An Encyclopedia

Education

Africanization of Western education. 
 
The education in Makoko 2035 receives influences from the West, but its stamp is essentially African, reflective of students' and teachers' Egun or Yoruba identities.  The family is, of course, where the children of Makoko receive their first education. 

In the past twenty years, many African writers have become internationally known, as their stories have been published and become popular around the world. In Nigerian schools, where students are taught much canonical Western literature, it is nonetheless, the local African authors that are the most widely read. In the Floating Education System, all children have access to tablets with which to access African stories, comics, games, and movies. The culture of Makoko is globally interconnected, and Makokoans are educated about the wider world, but they appropriate what they learn, giving it new meaning, relevant to their own lives.  

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