Africa's neglected majority: Women, children, and their right to education

In: Entwicklungspolitik: Zeitschrift, Issue 13-14, p. d-f

Abstract

The author looks at the problem of illiteracy in Africa and Nigeria. He points out that women, the main providers, are also the main sufferers. The lack of political will on the part of most African governments to abolish certain aspects of culture that disturb and frustrate efforts for total eradication of illiteracy by the year 2000 is stressed. The author connects the literacy crisis with the decline of rural schools, the neglect of indigenous African languages, and the dominance of a black elite which has lost its vision. (DÜI-Sen)