This book provides an in-depth study of the nature and pattern of educational development in Cameroon from 1844 to the post-independence period. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including hitherto unused archival material and formal interviews with people involved in Cameroons pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial educational traditions, the result is an elegantly written history enlivened by illustrative texts and archival pictures.

Essays on the capacity of education to assist economic development and social change in developing countries - includes the tasks of education and vocational training, the development of science, educational planning, and economic aid and technical cooperation to education. Bibliography pp. 509 to 512.