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Title: | Education and Development in Western Nigeria: The Legacy of S.O. Awokoya, 1952-1985 |
Author: | Krieger, Milton |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 647-667 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | educational policy Education and Oral Traditions Development and Technology History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/219656 |
Abstract: | Three decades have passed since the formative years of Stephen Awokoya's tenure as the Western Region minister of education gave the emergent public sector of education in the Yoruba region of western Nigeria an indigenous, experimental character that still remains distinctive. It is two decades since Sanya Onabamiro, one of his successors in the ministry, made the scheme comprehensive by supervising the creation of the University of Ife, designed in many respects to Awokoya's specifications. This article traces Awokoya's educational policy from its source and through its development, then appraises its legacy. It shows that Awokoya was a creative pioneer, important far beyond his limited reputation, credited or discredited, as author of his regional government's 1952 scheme for universal primary education. His initiatives entailed a comprehensive philosophy of indigenous development, found support and stirred controversy, and became influential in the wider setting of federal Nigeria's educational policy. Notes, ref. |