ABSTRACT
In French Africa, within the educational domain, the policy of assimilation continued to hold sway even after it had declined in effectiveness in other areas of policy. As for Belgian educational policy for the colonies at the preuniversity level, the emphasis on European culture was less than was evident in French policies, but the emphasis on practical training was greater than in either British or French visions. The university, like the British Broadcasting Corporation, was a cultural corporation with political and economic consequences. The multinational commercial company was an economic corporation with political and cultural consequences. Much of African political and economic culture has been influenced by social collectivism and the prestige motive. The impact of the multinationals on colonial schools was in the direction of both reducing the focus on religion and increasing interest in practical skills. Tensions between multinationals and the missionaries in the colonial territories were sometimes inevitable.
