Voicing African Voices

Author

Shoko Yamada

Shoko Yamada is professor of comparative education and African studies at the Applied Social System Institute, Nagoya University, Japan. She has conducted various researches on educational policy-making and implementation in Africa, both in the historical and present-day contexts. One of her consistent research focuses is the discourse around global policies and agendas and the ways they are adapted at the national levels.

Education and Teaching History

’Dignity of Labour’ for African Leaders

by Shoko Yamada

The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School on the Gold Coast From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans…

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