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Education

Latest addition : 9 April 2010.

This category's books

  • Réussite scolaire, Faillite Sociale: Généalogie mentale de la crise de l’Afrique Noire Francophone

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Albert Azeyeh
    Deux séries de manuels scolaires ont principalement programmé la répulsion de soi et l’attraction par l’autre propres aux élites d’Afrique noire : les collections des Frères missionnaires Macaire et Grill comme Mamadou et Bineta d’André Davesne seul ou avec J. Gouin. Un siècle après, pour rendre intelligible le type d’homme produit par l’Ecole étrangère en colonie, nous avons remonté l’itinéraire parcouru à travers leurs lectures par des générations d’écoliers pour savoir quelles sources avaient alimenté (...)

  • Genuine Intellectuals. Academic and Social Responsibilities of Universities in Africa

    2009, author(s)-editor(s) Bernard Nsokika Fonlon
    This book, slim as it looks, took Bernard Nsokika Fonlon the best part of five laborious years to write 1965-9 inclusive. He writes: "I was penning away as students in France were up in arms against the academic Establishment, and their fury almost toppled a powerful, prestigious, political giant like General de Gaulle. In America students, arms in hand, besieged and stormed the buildings of the University Administration, others blew up lecture halls in Canada - the student revolt, a very (...)

  • The Cameroon GCE Crisis

    2008, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Richard Fonteh Akum
    A Test of Anglophone Solidarity This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education to subvert it. These battles opposed a mobilised and determined Anglophone civil society against numerous machinations by successive Francophone- dominated governments to destroy their much prided (...)