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Title:The politics of higher education in a colonial situation, 1920-1941
Author:Mudoola, D.
Year:1978
Periodical:The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs
Volume:8
Issue:3-4
Pages:10-21
Language:English
Geographic terms:Uganda
Great Britain
Subjects:colonialism
higher education
Abstract:This paper seeks to demonstrate, using Uganda as a ease study for the period under discussion, that even before the politically dysfunctional effects of colonial education were felt in Uganda, colonial officials were cautious in their attitudes towards higher education for Africans in Uganda. Colonial officials feared that a higher literary education would be a destabilizing factor to colonial hegemony. There was a general view that if Africans acquired higher education, they would imbibe values which they could use as intellectual tools to critically re-examine the colonial order. There were, therefore, conflicting perceptions of the level at which Africans should be educated mainly between the Chiefs and colonial officials. The conflicting perceptions provided the bases for the politics of higher education during the period under discussion. Notes, tab.
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