Abstract
Since 1960, when many African states gained political independence, experts in African history, education, government, anthropology and sociology have been engaged in the comparative studies of the educational, social and political systems in the anglophone and francophone countries of Africa with differing rationalizations. Their common fundamental assumption has been that these former colonial territories were so much subjected to the cultural traditions of their former European colonizers that, after achieving independence, they have been unable to shed off completely the colonial influences on their social, educational and political institutions. Notwithstanding the serious efforts being made by the African countries to adapt their inherited educational systems to national needs, the colonial imprint remains virtually ineradicable. To highlight this view, Dr Lester Asheim, a noted American library educator, thus comments:
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