Some Current Problems in African Education

From the Impact of the African Social Revolution on the Development of Education. A research project at Oxford University, England, 1953-54, and still in progress. This paper is drawn from Chapter IV of the larger study and is limited to a phase of the work in the Gold Coast only. ing the way, although beset by urgent demands from the African masses for education, passionate and insistent demands on a scale that find no counterpart in the modern world.1 The Gold Coast rush for education may indeed be likened to a gold but the rush, although not halted, is sorrowfully slowed down by the equally quick rise of certain problems as obstacles in the way of the onward march. Some of these problems were always there. Others were created by the universal demand for education. A few of the most pressing problems which call for immediate attack seem to be

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