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Peer reviewedFieldhouse, Roger – History of Education Quarterly, 1984
Adult education was introduced by the British into West Africa after World War II. However, the Oxford intellectuals put in charge of the adult education program offered an African-centered education that frequently offered more support to the progressive views of the African independence movements than to the colonialists' conservative policies.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colonialism, Communism, Comparative Education
