History through Narratives of Education in Africa : : Social Histories in Times of Colonization and Post Independence (1920s - 1970s) / / edited by Ellen Vea Rosnes, Pierre Giudi and Jean-Luc Martineau.

• Superior document: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 33
• TeilnehmendeR: Rosnes, Ellen Vea,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 33.; Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 pages)

Who were the actors involved in colonial and post-independence education in Africa? This book on the history of education in Africa gives a special attention to narratives of marginalized voices. With this original approach and cases from ten countries involving four colonial powers it constitutes a dynamic and rich contribution to the field. The authors have searched for narratives of education 'from below' through oral interviews, autobiographies, films and undiscovered archival sources. Throughout the book, educational settings are approached as social spaces where both contact and separtation between colonisers and colonised are constructed through social interaction, negotiations, and struggles. Contributors include Antónia Barreto, Lars Folke Berge, Clara Carvalho, Charlotte Courreye, Pierre-Éric Fageol, Frédéric Garan, Esther Ginestet, Pedro Goulart, Pierre Guidi, Lydia Hadj-Ahmed, Kalpana Hiralal, Mamaye Idriss, Mihary Jaofeno, Raoul Kahuma, Rehana Thembeka Odendaal, Roland Rakotovao, Maria da Luz Ramos, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Caterina Scalvedi, Eva Van de Velde, Pieter Verstraete.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Connecting Narratives of Education -- 1 History of Education in Africa and the Contribution of this Volume -- 2 Connected Histories and Contact Zones in Colonial and Post-Independence Education -- 3 The Search for Narratives of Education from Oral and Archival Sources -- 4 The Search for Marginalised Voices through Oral Interviews -- 5 The Search for Multiple Perspectives through Alternative Written Sources -- 6 The Use of Films as Sources for Research -- 7 Outline of the Book: Acting in the Contact Zone -- Part 1: The Genesis and Action of Intermediary Social Groups -- 01 Mission Education and the Powers of the Written Word along the Northeastern Shores -- 1 The Ambiguous Adventures of Luo Literati -- 2 Schools, African Schoolteachers, and Colonial Knowledge-Making -- 3 East African Knowledge Networks along the Northeastern Shores of Lake Victoria, 1890s-WWI -- 4 Local Struggles over Education in Interwar Maseno, WWI-1939 -- 5 Educators as Knowledge Makers: Luo Historiography and Sigana -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Archives -- Autobiographies, Novels, Short Stories -- 02 Making the Colonial School: Catholic Teachers and Muslim Students in Italian Somalia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Not Seeing Like the Fascist State -- 3 Seeing Like Missionaries: Teaching Challenges -- 4 Pedagogic Strategies -- 5 Conclusion -- Archives -- Periodicals -- 04 Where is the Nation Heading? Empress Menen School for Girls and the 'New Era' in Ethiopia -- 1 Inside Empress Menen School: Local and Western Teachings Arrangements -- 1.1 Achieving International Academic Standards -- 1.2 Knowledge for the "New" Housewife -- 1.3 Moral Regulation at EMS: Loyalty to the King, the Country, and the Women.

2 Debates over Girls Education: the Acceleration of Time, Gender and National Identity -- 2.1 The Acceleration of Time -- 2.2 Which Women's Education for Which Social Roles? -- 2.3 Debates over Authority -- 3 Conclusion: the Hub of the Swirling Wheel -- 05 Women Teachers in Mayotte: Student Migration and Models of Womanhood in the Southwest Indian -- 1 French Colonial Education and Questions of Citizenship in the Southwest Indian Ocean -- 2 The Sainte-Marian Diaspora in Mayotte: French Education as Legacy -- 3 Tensions and Issues of Literacy in the Development of Hierarchies among Citizens of the French Empire from 1896 Onwards -- 4 Migration for Education -- 5 Indian Ocean Trajectories: Women's Educational Strategies and Networks -- 6 The Stories of Anne-Marie and Juliette -- 7 Education, Friendship and Love in Antananarivo -- 8 Social Changes in Mayotte -- 9 Women Teachers' Contribution to Education -- 10 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Private Archives -- Public Archives -- Printed Sources -- Administrative Sources -- Oral Sources -- Part 2: Colonial Spaces of Contact, Allegiances and Loyalties -- 06 Male and Female Teachers in Rural Areas of Madagascar: Role Models and Notables for Village -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Educational Offer in North Betsileo -- 3 Educational Stories and Model Teachers -- 4 Attachment to the Tanindrazana, the Village of Origin -- 4.1 Pride of Family and Lineage -- 4.2 Attaining Prestige in Tanindrazana through the Construction of Houses and Tombs -- 5 Conclusion -- Private Written Sources -- Oral Sources -- 07 Women, Mission Education and Loyalties -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Methodology: Archival and Oral Histories -- 3 Baptist Education and Gender among the Indian Populations in Natal -- 4 Norwegian Lutheran Education and Gender in KwaZulu-Natal among Zulu Women -- 5 Female Narratives of Education.

6 Kanakamma Rangiah and Sungunamma Rangiah's Stories -- 6.1 Thandiwe's Life Narrative -- 7 Women's Experiences of Mission Education and Processes of Transloyalties -- 8 Conclusion -- Archival Sources -- Oral Sources -- Newspapers/Pamphlets -- 08 School Careers and Experiences of a Sibling during the Algerian War -- 1 A Village Marked by Long Traditions of Schooling -- 1.1 Access to Schooling: a Privilege in Colonial Algeria in the 1950s -- 1.2 The Place of School in the AD Family: a Privilege Reserved for Boys -- 2 Contrasting the Effects of Schooling on Siblings: the Outbreak of War -- 2.1 The Contrasting Experience of the Military School -- 3 School Careers and a Family Tested by the War -- 3.1 A Family Educational Project Reconfigured by the War -- 3.2 The End of the War and Its Effect on Education -- 4 Conclusion -- Archival Sources -- Published Sources -- Part 3: Limits and Closings -- 09 Education for and by the Indigenous in Colonial Algeria: "contact zone" or the Beginnings -- 1 The School as a "contact zone": What Realities in Colonial Algeria? -- 2 Private Schools 'for and by' the Indigenous -- 2.1 Sufis and Reformists in School Provision in Algeria -- 2.2 Growing Competition within Private Muslim Education in Major Urban Centres -- 3 Preparing a National Education? -- 3.1 1962: Lack of Staff and Infrastructure in the Face of the Programmed Massification of Education -- 4 Conclusion -- 10 Teacher Training during the Process of Assimilation and the Extension of the Status -- 1 Reunion: a Special Teacher Training Site in the Empire and the Republic (1875-1946) -- 2 The First Classes of Normaliens after the Establishment of Départementalisation: a Portrait of a Generation -- 3 The Creation of a New Reunionese Elite -- 4 Conclusion -- Archival Sources -- Oral Sources.

11 The 'Open' Performance: Institutional Autonomy over Academic Freedom in the 1950s Academi -- 1 The Shaky Foundations of a Progressive Legacy -- 2 South African Universities in the 1950s -- 3 The Extension of University Education Act 45 of 1959 -- 4 The Importance of Rhetoric -- 4.1 The Academic Freedom March -- 4.2 The 1959 General Assembly -- 5 A Flawed but Influential Blueprint for University Protest -- 6 Conclusion -- 12 "We all went to school": Women's Narratives of Education in Cape -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Education and Gender -- 3 Colonial Education in Cape Verde -- 4 School as a "contact zone" -- 5 Women Narratives about Schooling -- 6 Access to School -- 7 School as a Space of Training and Social Dynamics -- 8 Final Considerations -- Acknowledgements -- Archival Sources -- Oral Sources -- 13 The Promotion Plan for Overseas Education -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Portuguese Colonial Policy -- 3 Education in Portuguese Colonies -- 4 Colonial Education Reform in the 1950s -- 5 Amadeu Castilho Soares: Creating a Development Plan for Education -- 6 Analysis of the Development Plan -- 7 Quantitative Characterization of the Overseas Education System -- 8 Qualitative Characterization of the Overseas Education System -- 9 Planning the Education System -- 10 Conclusion -- Archival Material -- Part 4: Two Way Round Circulations -- 14 Swedish Evangelical Mission, Popular Mobilization for Schooling and Egalitarian Ideals -- 1 The SEM in Sweden -- 2 Ethiopia -- 3 The SEM to Eritrea and Ethiopia -- 4 A Swedish Popular Movement in Ethiopia -- 5 Ethiopia in Sweden -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- 15 Disability, Colonial Propaganda and Transcultural Zones of Contact: the Visual Representation of -- 1 Leprosy, History of Education and Intersectionality -- 2 Shared Heritage, Participation and the De-Colonization of Historical Methods.

3 Construction of Difference in Gérard de Boe's 1938 Documentary La lèpre -- 3.1 Clothing and the Black-White Dichotomy -- 3.2 Cutlery and the Civilised-Uncivilised Dichotomy -- 3.3 Soil and the Human-Animal Dichotomy -- 3.4 Hands and the Useful-Useless Dichotomy -- 3.5 The Educational Possibility of Transcultural Zones of Contact -- General Index -- Index of Authors -- Index of Schools.