EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
® In the Udi Division of Omitsha province of Nigeria there is in progress a mass education campaign which is likely to be taken as a model for similar campaigns in other parts of Africa. The people are being taught the value of roads, schools, co-operatives, medical services, and they are encouraged to provide these
amenities for themselves as far as it lies within their power to do so. Experiments in mass literacy were started in Ogwofia Village, Udi Village, and two other villages in 1943. At first all teaching was voluntary. The people started a fund to buy school materials, and to help swell the fund they built by voluntary labour a co-operative consumers’ shop. Altogether Ogwofia built a reading room, a sub-dispensary, maternity home, model latrines, incinerator, and a small temporary market. The photograph shows one of the elders attending the mass literacy classes at Mgbagby Owa. They make very little progress but attend in order to encourage the younger people to enter into the scheme.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 6
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