Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imposition of British educational philosophy on the African university has created a gap between the educated African and his people, Sir Eric Ashby said in the second of his Godkin lectures at Sanders Theater last night...
...Britain, Ashby said, universities operate on Gresham's Law--that bad money drives out good money, or that university education for the masses drives down the quality of the academic degree. This English "elitist" philosophy was transferred to African universities when they were established in the 1950's, Ashby said, and the effects of elitism are still felt...
...Neglect African Studies...
Ashby, who headed a Royal Commission on higher education in Africa, explained that African nationalism was "born in America and Britain, in the editorial room of the African interpreter, published by African students in the United States, at meetings of the West African Students' Union in London, in Paris cafes...
These universities, he explained, as well as those built by the French and Belgians "on the foundations of European culture, are now being invaded by ideas and aspirations which have their source in African nationalism...