My Children! My Africa! Lesson Plan

How would you summarize Thami's argument in favor of the proposal in the debate? And Isabel's argument against it? Why does Mr M think the outcome of the class's vote is so significant?

Thami is making an argument appealing to the students' shared identity, framing himself in the tradition of African culture and presenting women's equality as a foreign value brought by Western colonizers. He says:

"Brothers and sisters these are foreign ideas. Do not listen to them. They come from a culture, the so-called Western Civilization, that has meant only misery to Africa and its people."

In the context of the oppression of Apartheid that limits the opportunities of all of the...