They taught us how Africa fell, but never how Africa once stood. In my old school, we debated the motion colonization was good for Africa. I vividly remember this one boy standing up and saying that if Africa was never colonized, we wouldn't be studying in square classrooms, but in circle ones. Instantly after hearing those words, something in me broke. It wasn't just what was said that hurt, but who said it. They came from an African boy. A boy in whom I shed the same skin tone, the same language, the same ...