ABSTRACT
IN THE CHANGED SETTING of African life, the search for values can be said to have gained effective momentum only with the attainment of self-government. During most of the time Africans were under foreign control, aboriginal African values, and attempts to balance them against what the Europeans had brought to Africa were rarely discussed. For one thing, the educational system was not calculated to encourage critical analyses of this kind; it was geared to inculcate the positive values in the metropolitan cultures. The cultures out of which the pupils had come were viewed as in process of being superseded by the higher cultures of Europe. There were few Africans prepared to raise questions of comparative worth; and where they did, their audience was minute.
