ABSTRACT
This chapter presents 'Mission' will include both Christian and Moslem Missions—that is, religious Missions—but will exclude 'cultural' Missions such as French, Spanish, or American ' cultural' Missions in some parts of Africa. Mission schools in Africa, whether Christian or Moslem, have been instruments of evangelization of particular creeds and dogmas. Both Christianity and Islam are non-African religions. The cases usually cited of church-state partnership in education—Ireland, Holland, England and Wales, Belgium, and Switzerland—are not relevant to the African situation. Early Christian missionaries in Africa were not interested in education as a bait for proselytization. With the achievement of independence of many African states from their former colonial masters, the problem of the state-church relationship in education became more strained. The problem that faces both African governments and the Missions to-day is that of deciding the role each should play in education.
