Ouagadougou: In his book, 'The French school: the weapon of mass destruction', the Senegalese writer, Ndiaye Bocar Niang, criticizes the way in which education, shaped by colonial influences, distanced Africans from their roots and their languages, promoting, according to him, a system that favors assimilation rather than autonomous innovation.In his perspective of questioning the knowledge imposed by the Western school, the young Senegalese writer, Ndiaye Bocar Niang, criticizes in his book entitled: "The French school: the weapon of mass destruction", the disconnection between knowledge traditional African traditions and those imposed by Westernized educational systems, emphasizing the importance of returning to knowledge that values African history and culture, indicates the daily Senegal Sud Quotidien on its website.As for the impact of colonialism on education, he criticizes the way in which education, shaped by colonial influences, distanced Africans from their roots and languages, promoting a syste m that favored assimilation rather than autonomous innovation, underlines the same source.Considering language as a vector of knowledge, Mr. Niang evokes in the text the importance of promoting African languages in education, to preserve cultures and encourage critical and independent thinking.In his pamphlet against Western schools, the author underlines the crucial role of African teachers and intellectuals in the transmission of indigenous knowledge and values, while criticizing their training which is often too aligned with Western models.'This book was designed to revisit our own history, the one that gives us wings, carrying content of pride, nobility and practical wisdom. It highlights the chaotic present which stabilizes the experience of a continent ignoring the causes of its immobility,' adds the author.Ndiaye Bocar Niang's book, 'French School: the weapon of massive deconstruction' was presented on May 11, 2024. It is composed of 163 pages and published by LEA Service.The author, a young 30-year-old entrepreneur, said he was inspired by his brief time at French school to write his first book.Source: Burkina Information Agency