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This aspect of African politics is rarely taken into consideration by political scientists in evaluating African political regimes. Yet it is essential in order to specify the political orientation of African States. Ultimately, there can be no real development unless African States succeed in promoting a national culture, in the widest sense of the term, that is to say both liberated from foreign domination and covering the whole of the population, which is one of the conditions of the construction of the nation (cf. the work by M. Eliou already cited). It is undeniable that progress has been accomplished since independence, but there exist factors which hold it back or even block it.
See the series of UNESCO monographs on the cultural policies of Member States.
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IEDES: L’enseignement en Afrique tropicale, PUF, 1971, p.377; also the special issue of the journal ‘Tiers Monde’ devoted to education (1975) and the bibliography referred to in the work by M. Eliou already cited.
On this point, see Bruno Etienne: L’Algérie, culture et révolution, Editions du Seuil, 1977.
See the document From Nairobi to Lagos, Lagos Conference, 1976; this document sums up the different forms of aid supplied to African States, and to national liberation movements.
See the Gorse Report, which though not contained in any official publication, is now well known; also the work already cited by A. Bourgi, Part 2, Section I, chap. III.
‘L’assistance en personnel,’ paper presented at the Franco-British Symposium on Independence and Cooperation, May 1976, FNSP, Paris.
See: Britain and the Commonwealth, COI, London, 1977, pp.28 et seq.; and the papers presented at the Montreal Symposium (March/April 1977), ‘Francophonie et Commonwealth: mythe ou réalité?’.
Les nouveaux Etats dans les relations internationales; also papers presented at the Montreal Symposium, ‘Francophonie et Commonwealth: mythe ou réalité?’. Centre Québécois de Relations Internationales, 31 March to 2 April 1977.
See the reports presented to the Conference of African Ministers of Education held under the auspices of UNESCO in Lagos in 1976.
Cf. M. Blaug: Education and the Employment Problem in Developing Countries, ILO, 1974.
See the three UNESCO publications mentioned in Part IV, chapter I, note 34, and the survey by A. Hopkins in The Times Educational Supplement, 25 February 1977.
The Political Dilemma of Popular Education, Stanford University Press, 1969.
Cf. B. Sine: Impérialisme et théories sociologiques du développement, Editions Anthropos, 1975.
‘Education in Africa. Evolution, reforms, prospects’, (Ed.-76/MINEDAF/3), p. 14.
This point should be treated with reservations. The choice of the system of the former colonial power is sometimes quite voluntary (see p. 319 above).
See L.J. Calvet: Linguistique et colonialisme, Petit Traité de Glothophagie, Payot, Paris, 1974; and the UNESCO document already cited, p. 17.
‘L’arabisation dans les pays du Maghreb s’oppose-t-elle au transfert des modèles culturels francais?’, paper presented at the ‘Indépendance et dépendance’ Symposium, FNSP, May 1976; and his study in ‘Introduction à l’Afrique du Nord contemporaine’, CNRS, 1975.
J. Ki-Zerbo: La culture africaine, Algiers Symposium, 1969, p.343.
See the document entitled. ‘Educational innovations in Africa’, Lagos Conference, UNESCO, 1976.
UNESCO, ED-76/MINEDAF/3, p. 15.
Document presented at the Lagos Conference, 1976.
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Gonidec, P.F. (1981). Cultural Policies. In: African Politics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8902-3_10
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