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ERIC ED319663: Cultural Literacy and African Education.

An important issue confronting newly emerging nations in Africa is the development of a new curriculum to reflect the changing norms and views of the past. Looking at nations that share a common British educational tradition, a study done in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe asked which topics and categories of cultural knowledge were essential for the development of a national cultural literacy. Another concern was whether one ethnic group or a mosaic of groups would be represented in the revised curriculum, and how African states could identify content for syllabuses that supported nation…