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IN no part of the British Empire is the task of developing education services more difficult, onerous, and important than in British territories in Africa. In the Union of South Africa, the task is complicated by the language differences between the British, Dutch, immigrant Asiatics, and indigenous peoples, the different social customs and religions of the white, brown, and black elements, and the economic differences based upon the differing standards of living between these three distinct racial types. The situation in East Africa and parts of British Central Africa is much the same. In British West African territories, if we except the Cameroons, there is no white or Asiatic problem, but a complication exists because of an essential difference between the ideals underlying British colonial policy and those of the French and Belgians whose colonial territories are adjacent.
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Native Education in Africa. Nature 124, 829–831 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124829a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124829a0