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Title:Post-literacy in Africa, 1976
Author:Dumont, Bernard
Year:1977
Periodical:Educafrica: Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Africa
Volume:2
Issue:1
Pages:21-77
Language:English
Geographic terms:Mali
Tanzania
Subject:lifelong education
Abstract:The gradual extension of literacy action to 80-90% of the African population at present unable to read or write in any language (African or imported) can only have a lasting effect if it is followed up by life-long education, the only means of ensuring that the newly literate do not rapidly lose their acquired ability and become once again illiterate. The author describes post-literacy activities in Mali and Tanzania. He ends by briefly considering several problems involved, including linguistic and publishing problems, relations with development, making people from outside aware of the meaning of adult education, and the usefulness of a general approach to planning. Bibliogr., map, notes, tab.