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Education in Postcolonial Africa

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In the postcolonial period, several African countries have undertaken numerous educational reforms to address their social, political, and economic needs. Many of these reforms have been shaped by varied historical happenings within the African continent. Drawing from my educational, biographical research work in Kenya, where I have studied Kenya’s educational development in the postcolonial period using historical frames, this chapter examines how the development of education in Africa has been influenced by its historical contexts, happenings, trends, and needs, the progress that has been made, challenges that have been witnessed, and what the future holds with regard to education in Africa. Given the contextual educational differences that exist among the 55 African countries, this chapter focuses mainly on Sub-Saharan African countries.

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  1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Peter Otiato Ojiambo

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  1. History Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Martin S. Shanguhyia

  2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    Toyin Falola

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Ojiambo, P.O. (2018). Education in Postcolonial Africa. In: Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_43

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