The ARTS and civilization of black and African peoples— Black Civilization and Science & Technology Vol. 8
Date
1986
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Lagos State (P.O. Box 7680): Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization,
Abstract
The Place and Role of the Humanities in Africa Today; Education for a Developing Liberia; Utilizing an African Language for Formal Education: The Potential for a Nigerian Example; Traditional Methods of Education in Africa: The Yoruba Example; Black Civilization and Pedagogy: A Search for Modern Methods; Traditional Systems of Education in Senegambia; American Higher Education: A Training Ground for African Elites or African Revolutionaries; Education and Cultural Control in Traditional Kenya: A Case Study of the Kipsigis; Pedagogic Problems in Africa Today; Traditional Education in Sierra Leone: The Role of the Major Secret Societies; Continuity and Change: A Challenge to African Education
Description
The primary significance of the FESTAC colloquium was that it provided meaning and purposiveness to the multiplicity of events that marked the festival. The colloquium also turned out as a major intellectual enterprise.
This colloquium papers provided opportunity for sound reflection on the situations and roles of Africans and peoples of African descent across the ages. Authors and discussants at the colloquium dealt with unifying factors in the experiences of Africans and peoples of African descent in other continents, especially the Americans. Issues that are discussed in the papers relate to the history, thought systems, institutions, economic and cultural problems of existence in the midst of dominant host communities, as well as the future of Africans and Black peoples throughout the world. The papers also highlight the contributions of Africans and peoples of African descent to the world civilization in terms of ideas, socio-political institutions and material culture.