Education
Traditional education in Africa involves training children to African realities and life in African society. Education in the pre-colonial Africa included games, dancing, singing, drawing, ceremonies and rituals. Education engaged senior, each member of society has contributed to the education of the child. Girls and boys were taught separately to learn the system properly polorolevogo behavior. The apogee of training were rites of passage symbolizing the end of childhood and early adult life.
Since the beginning of the colonial period, the education system has undergone changes in the direction of European, so that Africans have the opportunity to compete with Europe and America. Africa has tried to establish their own professional growth.
Now in regard to education, Africa still lags behind other parts of the world. In 2000, in Black Africa, only 58% of children were taught in schools is the lowest. In Africa 40 million children, half of whom are of school age who do not receive schooling. Two-thirds of them - girls.
In the post-colonial African governments to put more emphasis on education, was established by a large number of universities, although the money for their development and support was very little, and sometimes stopped altogether. Nevertheless, universities are overcrowded, often forcing teachers to give lectures in shifts, evenings and weekends. Because of low wages there is brain drain. In the absence of necessary funding and other problems afrikansih universities are unresolved power system, as well as inequities in the system of career development among the teaching staff, which is not always based on professional merit. This frequently causes protests and strikes by teachers.