Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home Education in Africa Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Edward W. Blyden: educational views
Author:Brown, Mary Antoinette
Year:1971
Periodical:Liberian Studies Journal
Volume:4
Issue:1
Pages:47-53
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Liberia
Subjects:education
pan-Africanism
Abstract:Blyden was born at St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies in 1832. He spent more than two-third of his life in Liberia. He saw Liberia as a hope for Africa and the Negro race and education as the means for lifting the soul of his people. The pride in his race was engendered by his sojourn in Egypt and by bis continuing exploration of the classics. For Blyden education was to be utilized for political purposes, as well as for intellectual and social endeavours, for religious duty and specially for racial development. His merit was that he gave considerable thought to the development of his people in accordance with nature and their surroundings, Notes.