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International Philanthropic Support for African Education: The Complex Interplay of Ideologies and Western Foreign Policy Agenda
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Mfum-Mensah, Obed – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
Beginning in the nineteenth century, a plethora of western Christian and secular philanthropies introduced "top-down" philanthropic initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa to promote education and "development". There seems to be a complex link between the agendas of international philanthropies and their home governments' broader…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Philanthropic Foundations, Educational Development, Social Stratification
Education and Communities at the "Margins": The Contradictions of Western Education for Islamic Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mfum-Mensah, Obed – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
This paper employs postcolonial framework to discuss the contradictions of promoting western education in Islamic communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Prior to colonization, Islamic education was an important socializing process that instilled strong Islamic identity in Islamic communities in SSA. European encounters in SSA and the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Islamic Culture, Islam, Foreign Policy