Education systems and challenges in Africa, including statistics on basic literacy, secondary and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates and cultural and financial factors.
Kevin Watkins examines Africa's education crisis and argues that failure to tackle the learning deficit will deprive a whole generation of opportunities to develop to their potential and escape poverty.
Justin van Fleet examines the data and trends from the Center for Universal Education's new interactive, the Africa Learning Barometer, which identifies a baseline assessment of learning in Africa.
Education in Africa before the development of the European colonial schooling system, educational practices in Africa consisted of groups of older people (elders) teaching aspects of life and rituals that would help girls and boys in adulthood.
Kevin Watkins examines Africa's education crisis and argues that failure to tackle the learning deficit will deprive a whole generation of opportunities to develop to their potential and escape poverty.
Justin van Fleet examines the data and trends from the Center for Universal Education's new interactive, the Africa Learning Barometer, which identifies a baseline assessment of learning in Africa.
Education in Africa before the development of the European colonial schooling system, educational practices in Africa consisted of groups of older people (elders) teaching aspects of life and rituals that would help girls and boys in adulthood.
