Dysfunctional Literacies of Exclusion

In Mandi Chikombero's Dysfuctional Literacies of Exclusion: An Exploration of the Burdens of Literacy in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Condition, she explains that there are two different types of groups of literacies that people can be placed in.These groups are traditional literacies and colonial literacies. Traditional literacies are the literacies acquired through things that we've learned based on our personal or family traditions. Colonial traditions are ones that are acquired by what we are taught, mostly in the broad spectrum of the "accepted" way of being taught in our nation. She also explains "different literacies have various implications for understanding Black women's struggle for acceptance and inclusion in male-dominated societies". Implying that the Black woman's struggle is never really understood in a world that is seemingly "male-dominant". This example can also be geared towards education. Black women have a different way of understanding things, so while being taught, they will have different perceptions and viewpoints than other people, and based on our upbringing and history,we have and acquire many different literacies than males.
This article was very interesting because it made me think about my own literacy acquisition and how my own personal struggles and traditions have affected this acquisition. I believe that there should be teaching techniques implemented to help Black women to better understand the things that we are being taught.