Word: diop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities. Some Africans argue that school curriculums should be changed ("Why study the industrial revolution when our problem is detribalization?"), along with college admissions standards ("Some of our brightest chemistry students score low in English and are disqualified"). But all agree that thousands more schools are needed. Says Allassane Diop, Guinea's levelheaded Information Minister: "Too many African nations want fancy colleges right away as prestige symbols without preparing students for them. In Guinea our first job is to reduce illiteracy and get our children into school-any school. College can wait...