Education in Africa: Traditional, Islamic, & "Western" Education
By Nazma M. Ali and Yuusuf Caruso
Traditional African & Islamic Education
- African Traditional Education. (2018)
- In this Nigerian newspaper article, the author describes the history of African indigenous, Islamic and Christian education in Nigeria from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries CE. But indigenous education persists even today, showing no sign of disappearance from the scene of education.
- The Child and His Environment in Black Africa: An Essay on Traditional Education. (1981)
An English translation and adaptation of French anthropologist Pierre Emy's "L'enfant et son milieu en Afrique noire" (1972) by G.J. Wanjohi.
- Education in Traditional Africa: Aspects of African Culture. (2006)
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To understand the history of education in Africa, adequate knowledge of the traditional or indigenous educational systems which existed before and in coexistence with Islam and Christianity is needed.
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- Gathering Under the Mango Tree: Values in Traditional Culture in Africa. (1996)
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Zimbabwean education historian and philosopher Dickson A. Mungazi discusses how values have shaped the character of society and influenced the lives of Africans. The study addresses the topics of family structure, medicine, religion, government, jurisprudence, art forms, and socio-economic systems. The book also raises the issue of how Africans are caught between past and present values and concludes that Africa is at a cultural crossroad.
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Islamic Education in Africa by ISBN: 9780253023186Publication Date: 2016-10-03Contributors from the United States, Europe, and Africa evaluate classical Islamic education in Africa from colonial times to the present, including changes in pedagogical methods--from sitting to standing, from individual to collective learning, from recitation to analysis. Also discussed are the differences between British, French, Belgian, and Portuguese education in Africa and between mission schools and Qur'anic schools; changes to the classical Islamic curriculum; the changing intent of Islamic education; the modernization of pedagogical styles and tools; hybrid forms of religious and secular education; the inclusion of women in Qur'anic schools; and the changing notion of what it means to be an educated person in Africa.
Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa by ISBN: 9781137552303Publication Date: 2015-11-04Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience.
Native Colonialism by ISBN: 9781569025109Publication Date: 2016-12-01Native Colonialism examines the cause and consequence of the process whereby a country colonizes itself with foreign institutions and ideals. The book draws its evidence from a variety of Ethiopian sources that have rarely been studied or utilised in academic research. It provides never-before seen interpretations of indigenous sources of knowledge and features ground breaking empirical research on traditional and modern schools in Ethiopia, as well as interviews with students, teachers and traditional leaders.
- Towards Indigenization of Education in Africa. (2006)
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This was an international symposium toward an indigenization of education in Africa. Issues such as education, non-formal education, traditional ecological knowledge, and native language and education were discussed.
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- Using HIV/AIDS Education as a Model for Female Genital Cutting Education: Respecting Culture While Educating Communities. (2020)
- In this recent open access article by a Masters' student at Columbia, the author highlights the depth of which FGM has been practiced and tied to culture and education while human rights movements seek to put a stop to it.
"Western" Education in Africa
Conflict and Harmony in Education in Tropical Africa by ISBN: 9781000510942Publication Date: 2021-12-19This book examines the three main traditions of African educational development - indigenous, Islamic and 'Western' - and the resulting harmonies and conflicts that arise from these traditions. Its contributors are all specialists writing about their own particular area of interest covering many countries of tropical Africa. They include a number of well-known African scholars as well as some comparatively new names in the field of African Studies at the time.
--See also: Teachers College library copy
The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses by ISBN: 9781433113796Publication Date: 2012-03-20The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. The authors bring African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in various sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice, memory work and storying to higher education policy and development studies, language and mathematics pedagogy to giftedness and special education.
Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by ISBN: 9783030278014Publication Date: 2020-01-04This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments.
--See also: E-book, via Teachers College library
Empire and Education in Africa by ISBN: 9781433133473Publication Date: 2016-09-30Empire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African colonial education. The collection includes case studies from South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française) and Tanzania (then Tanganyika).
Mediating Learning in Higher Education in Africa by ISBN: 9789004463998Publication Date: 2021-05-12Historically, African higher education teaching and learning have relied on Western models, paradigms, assumptions, concepts and procedures, among other research related aspects. Western hegemony and ideology has influenced and continues to influence the epistemologies and both the methods and outcome of higher education research. The connection between teaching and learning is that teaching generates new forms of learning and learning challenges methods of teaching.
- Partnership in Higher Education : Trends Between African and European Institutions. (2019)
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Trends in institutional partnership in higher education have shown tremendous growth in the past three decades. In this edited collection, partnerships in higher education are discussed as instruments for institutional development through a wide range of strategic alliances and as essential ways of introducing new voices to the operations of universities.
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- Schooling, Education, and Underdevelopment : The Paradox of Western-Oriented Education in Africa. (2005)
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Two Kenyan scholars of education summarize the impact of western education in postcolonial Kenya and in Africa more generally.
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Western Education and Political Domination in Africa by ISBN: 089789622XPublication Date: 1999-10-30The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented. What is not equally well documented is the fact that African-educated elites have used their education and the schools to perpetuate their dominance by denying the poor the knowledge necessary to protect their political and economic rights and to advance in society. This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.
--See also: Teachers College library copy
