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Title:Education and the Chiefs in East Africa in the Inter-War Period
Author:Furley, O.W.
Year:1971
Periodical:Transafrican Journal of History
Volume:1
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:60-83
Language:English
Geographic term:East Africa
Subjects:education
traditional rulers
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520353
Abstract:The extent and the quality of education in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) was dependent to a considerable degree on the willingness or unwillingness of the chiefs, elders and local people of influence to cooperate with the educators, be they government officials or missionaries. The response varied but quite frequently the expansion of schools and the establishment of more senior types of school was the result of much prodding and petitioning by councils of elders. Conversely, areas where chiefs were hostile to education remained without schools for an astonishingly long time. In this paper a beginning is made to a special study of this interaction. Shown is that Kenya had a different history of educational development from the other two territories; the different nature of chieftainship and the varying degrees of it affected this history. Ref.
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