Conflict and Harmony in Education in Tropical Africa

Godfrey N. Brown and Mervyn Hiskett

Contributors. Notes on Transliteration. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett Part 1: Indigenous African Education 1. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett 2. Indigenous Education in Yoruba Society Helen Callaway 3. Akan Indigenous Education F. L. Bartels 4. Indigenous Education in Sierra Leone T. J. L. Forde 5. Values in Indigenous African Education N. K. Dzobo Part 2: Islamic Education in Tropical Africa 6. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett 7. Conflict, Education and New Awareness in the Southern Sudan (1898–1956) Lilian M. Sanderson 8. Interaction between Traditional and Western Education in the Sudan: An Attempt towards a Synthesis Yusuf Fadl Hasan 9. Islamic Education in the Traditional and State Systems in Northern Nigeria M. Hiskett 10. Government and Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria (1900–40) J. P. Hubbard 11. The Islamic Education of an African Child: Stresses and Tensions L. O. Sanneh 12. The Modernisation of Islamic Education in Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia: Religion and Language H. J. Fisher 13. Religious Education among Muslims in Uganda M. L. Fitzgerald 14. Educational Progress and Retrogression in Guinea (1900–43) R. W. Johnson 15. Girls’ Education in the Northern Sudan (1898–1956) Lilian M. Sanderson 16. Western Education and Muslim Fulani/Hausa Women in Sokoto, Northern Nigeria Jean Trevor Part 3: Interaction and the Current Situation 17. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett 18. Secular Skills and Sacred Values in Uganda Schools: Problems of Technical and Moral Acculturation D. Ocaya-Lakidi and Ali A. Mazrui 19. Nationalism, Education and Imperialism in the Southern Sudan (1920–70) K. J. King 20. English versus African Languages as the Medium of Education in African Primary Schools B. W. Tiffen 21. Literary Studies and Cultural Context: A Comparative Study H. L. B. Moody 22. Traditional and Western Education in Mainland Tanzania: An Attempt at Synthesis? J. Cameron 23. The Organisation of Support and the Management of Self-Help Schools: A Case Study from Kenya J. E. Anderson 24. The Harmonisation of Traditional and Western Legal Education in Africa J. S. Read 25. Medical Ideas in Africa D. Stevenson 26. The Case for Teacher Participation in Development R. J. Smyke 27. An Educational Strategy for Reducing Conflict between the Traditional and the Western in African Education G. N. Brown 28. Obote’s Milton and Nyerere’s Shakespeare Ali A. Mazrui. Appendix. Index.