- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Figures and tables
- General editor's introduction
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
Chapter One From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s -
Chapter Two Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses1 -
Chapter Three A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere -
Chapter Four The ‘private’ face of African development planning during the Second World War1 -
Chapter Five Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia -
Chapter Six Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79 -
Chapter Seven The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944 –56 -
Chapter Eight From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika -
Chapter Nine ‘Keystone of progress’ and mise en valeur d'ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period -
Chapter Ten Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55 -
Chapter Eleven Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa -
Chapter Twelve The World the Portuguese developed:1 -
Chapter Thirteen The notion of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications1 -
Chapter Fourteen Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period1 -
Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead
1 - Bibliography
- Index
Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55
Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55
- Chapter:
- (p.251) Chapter Ten Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55
- Source:
- Developing Africa
- Author(s):
Uyilawa Usuanlele
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
A major area of conflict between the colonial administration in Nigeria and colonized Africans on the one hand and missionaries on the other hand was education. Though the Christian missionaries and the administration found a common ground in the adaptation policy of 1924, it was at the expense of Africans who sought better quality education for their communities. The introduction of new development policies, starting with the 1929 Colonial Development Act and culminating with the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts of 1940 and 1945, raised expectations of a change in approach towards colonial education. This chapter examines how education was considered and viewed in debates over colonial development, the role it was expected to play and the politics of planning education in the pursuit of development in Nigeria in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Keywords: Nigeria, Colonial administration, Colonial Development and Welfare Acts, Colonial education, Education and development
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Figures and tables
- General editor's introduction
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
Chapter One From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s -
Chapter Two Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses1 -
Chapter Three A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere -
Chapter Four The ‘private’ face of African development planning during the Second World War1 -
Chapter Five Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia -
Chapter Six Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79 -
Chapter Seven The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944 –56 -
Chapter Eight From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika -
Chapter Nine ‘Keystone of progress’ and mise en valeur d'ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period -
Chapter Ten Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55 -
Chapter Eleven Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa -
Chapter Twelve The World the Portuguese developed:1 -
Chapter Thirteen The notion of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications1 -
Chapter Fourteen Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period1 -
Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead
1 - Bibliography
- Index
