The African social studies programme

Abstract

The African Social studies Programme is an organization of 12 African countries with its headquarters in Nairobi. The Programme come into being after the Mombasa conference of August 1968 which was co-sponsored by the Education Development Centre, Newton, mass and the Centre for Curriculum Renewal and Educational Development Overseas, London (now part of the Centre for Educational Development Overseas). At this conference African educators, E.D.C. and CREDO discussed in detail the development for new and more relevant curricula in social studies for African schools starting with the primary schools. A start was to be made at the Primary School because for a majority of children in the African countries, primary education would be terminal.The Mombasa conference itself as a follow-up from the Oxford conference of 1967 when African educators explored co-cooperatively with their British and American counterparts the needs and priorities in curriculum development in the African countries represented at the conference.