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He cited the example in his native country, then known as Tanganyika, where during that era, only 15 % of the adult population was literate and there were just 3,100 primary schools for a population of nine million.
Mkapa, said although the United Nations called the attention of the colonial powers of deliberately obstruction the education in their colonies, and among other resolutions, called for an increase in the strengthening of the educational systems, “it did not follow through with practical help”.

He said as a result, “the natural instinct of leaders in independent Africa, was to turn to their colonial masters for aid to develop their countries”, after they had also plundered the continent of its vast natural resources.The former President, pointed out that Africa’s development would have been different if the colonialists had treated Africa with respect and had provided it with the wherewithal to develop its economy.The Vice-Chancellor of the UCC, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, observed that the colonial era, had dented Africa’s identity and left a “huge psychological scar” and that Africa’s educational system had not done much to remove that scar.