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| Title: | Educating Congolese Abroad: An Historical Note on African Elites |
| Author: | Yates, Barbara A. |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 34-64 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Belgium |
| Subjects: | elite colonialism educational policy Education and Oral Traditions History and Exploration |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/218113 |
| Abstract: | The Belgian colonial administration and espacially Christian mission societies operated virtually all of the schools in the Congo. Though generally they agreed that Congolese should be educated in the Congo, for a period at the end of the nineteenth century three experiments were undertaken to educate Congolese abroad. These programs were important, not because of the numbers involved - fewer than one hundred pupils - but because all of them, after a short trial, were curtailed. Mot until the early 1950s were exit visas again granted to Congolese for secular study abroad. These three study-abroad programs serve as a contrasting context in which to examine emerging educational policies and to highlight the origins of the kinds of African elites preferred by the colonial administration and Christian missions. At independence in 1960 Zaire had no black army officers, and only several score senior-level black administrators in the civil service. While there were no Congolese physicians, engineers or agronomists, there were 600 Congolese Catholic priests and approximately 500 ordained Protestant pastors. Notes. |
