Depriving colonized peoples of their own philosophy amounts to high treason

Evidence

If it is a crime against education to impose upon a race of men a civilisation devoid of philosophy, of practical wisdom and of spiritual aspirations, it would be a still graver offence to deprive peoples of their own patrimony, which is their only possession able to serve as the starting point of a higher civilisation. … It would be unspeakable for the white educator to persist in killing in the African that human mind of his which is the only reality that prevents us from thinking of him as the inferior human being. … It would be high treason on the part of the coloniser to free primitive races from what is of value, which constitutes a kernel of truth in their traditional thought, their philosophy of life, an integral part of the very essence of their being. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 216

Categorization

• SEED: The coloniser’s ‘harshest crime’ framing — depriving indigenous peoples of their patrimony as the gravest offence, graver than imposing a vacant civilisation — could anchor a piece on colonial education stripping away value systems.
• XREF: Connects to the standing article ‘On Sacrifice’ and to broader discourse about how missionaries and colonial educators saw themselves as bestowers versus erasers of culture. — connects to: Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421; Autocrats criminalize imagination itself as political treason — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 340 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 216

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #contradicts (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421