“…Such a conclusion, even if philosophically skewed, is certainly not implausible or illogical. In addition, there is a plethora of literature which establishes, from the perspective of colonized people, the true impact of colonial education (see Bacchus, 1994;Bewaji, 2008;Bhabha, 1994;Kanu, 2007;London, 2002;Meena, 2015;Samaddar, 2007;Thiong'o, 1986). In practice then, education as cultural assimilation looks very much like the image formed by the very eloquent words of Thiong'o (1986), himself a product of colonized education who laments that the process annihilate[s] a people's belief in their names, in their languages, in their environment, in their heritage of struggle, in their unity, in their capacities and ultimately in themselves.…”