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-This commission was a product of a philanthropic foundation in United States of America. It was devoted to the improvement of the education of the Blacks in America, Africans and the American Indians. The foundation formed the ten man commission to tour Tropical Africa. The purpose of the tour was to assess the progress being made into the education of Africans.
The objective of the commission was two-fold namely:
1.To find out what and how much education work was being done for the Africans in each of the territory they visited.
2.To find out educational needs of the people with reference to:
-Religion
-Social
-Health
-Economics
3.To ascertain to what extent the above factors were being implemented and to suggest ways and means for further improvements.
The commission visited many African countries between 1921 and 1925. The commission visited Kenya in 1924.
The recommendation of the commission included the following:
-That, there should be more corporation between the government and the missionaries.
-That, education should be adopted to the needs of local people
-That, the best of the people’s tradition should be preserved
-That, through education, the students should be prepared for the world at large
-That, the natives should be trained in skilled work so as to reduce or stop the importation of the Indians
-That, the Africans should be educated about their environment
-That, the attention of the government should be drawn to the negligible expenditure on the African education.
The effects of this education included the following:
-Educational Advisory Committees set up
-A tax levy was made to finance education of the Africans
-The British government issued a statement on the education of Africans in the colonies. The statement was called ‘The Educational policy in tropical Africa’ alternatively the statement was called ‘The 1925 Memorandum’.
This statement or policy carried 13 principles which became the basis for the educational policy in all the British African colonies.
Titany answered the question on August 30, 2021 at 13:03
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