Names to facades
While some streets in Lagos bear the names of notable nationalist leaders and pioneering early Nigerians, less is known about the everyday social milieu in which they operated.
While some streets in Lagos bear the names of notable nationalist leaders and pioneering early Nigerians, less is known about the everyday social milieu in which they operated.
Once associated with socialism, the language of participation has been co-opted. How was this radical idea depoliticized?
On Father’s Day, an ode to Namballa Keïta, a nurse, soldier, and seemingly ordinary man, who worked tirelessly to promote education in newly independent Mali.
Mainstream discourses about Aamajiranci, northern Nigeria’s Qur'anic schooling system, expose the power politics of knowledge in postcolonial societies.
Why the COVID-19 pandemic is the easy culprit of the global learning crisis—and why that is only half of the story.
If generations of African youth are to prosper post-pandemic, a fundamental and vital shift in educational context and content is needed.
We can do more than tell young African girls to work hard in school. We need a real plan for the fully self-actualized people we want them to be.
Why is South Africa's draft Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill contradicting the constitution and proposing to shield academics and scholars who propagate racist and bigoted ideas?
Colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya have worked to separate education from access to culture and information. It is an outdated model.
Today's social movements rely on tech collectives to organize safely. But few know the history of other technologies used by earlier liberation movements.
The ideal South African is not the citizen but the consumer, and this is impressed upon children immediately when some are sent to private schools.
Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a rigid educational system, largely unchanged from the colonial era. Slam artists and activists are working to open it up to alternative spaces of expression.
Ghana’s ruling party has proposed a new law to control the country’s public universities. The country’s academics are fighting it.
Teacher, journalist, and photographer, Ndeye Seck, talks about feminism and her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system and her passion for football.
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.
With 7.9 million young South Africans out of work or with very little education or training opportunities, who looks out for their aspirations?
Poor reading scores among South African children highlights the need for decolonization in book publishing, teaching and policy implementation.
The post-independence fates of Zimbabwean student activists who fought the Rhodesian regime.
Teachers are undervalued around the world. The Lesotho teachers strike is yet another case to prove that point.