The Education We Want
African teachers organize themselves against privatization of public education. These academics are widespread in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
African teachers organize themselves against privatization of public education. These academics are widespread in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
The latest trick is to transfer tax-payer funded aid aimed at Africa and the Middle East into the pockets of corporations and individuals.
The privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as much as white saviorism should take the blame for the sexual violence under an NGO's watch.
Pith helmets and jodhpurs aside, Melania Trump went to four African countries to promote her "Be Best" education initiative. What's that about?
The planned global Education Outcomes Fund—the UN seems onboard—would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”
Nigeria is a fresh target of Bridge International, a global chain, whose schools have been shut down in Kenya and Uganda for violating their national laws.
How private education companies ruin education in Kenya: Private education companies have sought to cash in on the development game.
Why is Liberia’s Government rushing to sell its public schools to for-profits from the United States?
The "business model" of Bridge International, the organization which claims to solve Africa's education problems, comes under scrutiny.
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.
We speak to an aid worker and trade unionist at the forefront of campaigns to halt the transnational corporate education reform movement.
The Elsenburg Agricultural College lies 50 km east of Cape Town, tucked among the quiet valleys
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had a child at least once.
A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.
Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.
The talk show host started a private school for girls in South Africa. Shocker: it mostly makes things worse.
One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.