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“The processes of Africanization and transformation cannot be separated neatly into two states- they overlap. To transform the world according to an African-centered worldview means establishing a new African culture and a new African world civilization. We have to restore the African value system. Rather than continually struggling to make european-centered value systems more humane, we have to replace those value systems with one that is African-centered. We have been dealing with the alligators, we must now face the possibility that the solution to our problems may require that the swamp be drained. Too few of us have prepared ourselves to deal with this possibility.”- Jacob H. Carruthers’ essay entitled “Black intellectuals and the crisis in Black education” which is a part of the book “Too much schooling, Too little education : a paradox of Black life in white societies”
