Colonialism Quote by Alex Wagner
“My mother grew up during the sunset of British colonialism and attended English schools, where she was not allowed to be called Tin Swe Thant, but was instead required to have a Western 'school name.'”
“My mother grew up during the sunset of British colonialism and attended English schools, where she was not allowed to be called Tin Swe Thant, but was instead required to have a Western 'school name.'”
![“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name…” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d3a/nelson-mandela-248_bias_no-one-in-my-family-had-ever-attended-sc_2221073.jpg)
