ABSTRACT
Education as a natural human activity could be acquired anywhere through either formal or informal methods. According to the Board of Education in Enugu there are 30 registered private secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area. Nsukka came in contact with Western civilizations by 1919 with the coming of the missionaries who came with education as a vehicle of evangelization. Although the first primary school was opened at Nsukka in 1919, it was much later in 1948 that a secondary school came into being. Christian cultural influence was demonstrated as many of Nsukka's Western educated expressed a concern that the government would prohibit Christian moral education in the schools. African Traditional Education or Indigenous Education "refers to the ways of teaching and learning in Africa based on the knowledge accumulated by the indigenous Africans for long periods of time in response to different physical, agricultural, ecological, political and socio-cultural programs".
