Female Education in Kenya after Independence

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This paper addresses British educational policy in Kenya that saw Africans as in need of only limited education. The paper looks at postcolonial theory studies asserting that post-1963 shortcomings in Kenyan female education are a remnant of British ecuational patterns in the country. This paper explores this aspect of Kenyan education along with the country's failure to institute compulsory or free primary education till 2003.

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"Colonial education in British East Africa has cast a long shadow in post-colonial Kenya, towards ongoing issues of raising girls' education. In 2006, Kenya's population of 30 million or so remains uneven, in perhaps 20 % in Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru and Kisumu, the north and northeast of the country very arid and under-populated, with most Kenyans in the cooler Central Highlands. English remains the official language, taught in schools of different kinds, with Swahili as the national language, spoken by many East Africans who also know tribal dialects."

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