Schools and innovation in Africa.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Byrne, Garreth | Copyright information

AFRICAN parents make huge financial sacrifices in order to send their sons and daughters to school. In the straggling townships, children will work after school hours and at weekends selling trite goods on the streets in order to scrape together enough funds to pay for school uniforms and school fees. Members of the extended family--siblings, aunts, uncles and grandparents--also help the younger generation to go to school. If a man settles into a steady civil service career he is c...

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