Author: Mumford, William Bryant [1900-1951]
Title: Africans Learn To Be French: A Review of Educational Activities in the Seven Federated Colonies of French West Africa...
Description: New York, Negro Universities Press, (1970). Reprint. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 174 pp, A facsimile reprint of the ca. 1937 edition.. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Full title reads: "Africans Learn To Be French: A Review of Educational Activities in the Seven Federated Colonies of French West Africa, based upon a Tour of French West Africa and Algiers Undertaken in 1935, by W. Bryant Mumford. In Consultation with G. St. J. Orde-Brown". Author former Superintendent of Education, Tanganyika Territory. Contents: the Survey: Introduction & Itinerary; First Impressions & the Historical Backround; Educational Organisation Today; Comments & Comparisons; Matters of Wider Application; Translations of Official Documents: The Present Position of Education in French West Africa; The Social Function of African Education; Technical Education in French Africa; Translation of Brochure of the African Medical School at Dakar; General Statistical Report for 1933 - 1934.

Keywords: French Colonialism, France Colonies, West Africa, Colonial History, Education, Senegal Colony, Guinea Conakry, Mali Mauritania, Dahomey