ABSTRACT
This chapter represents an attempt at a general history of African education from ancient times to the modern-day efforts made at institutionalizing pan-African Education. Henry Sylvester Williams describes the destruction of African civilizations with the advent of the Hyksos or Desert Kings into ancient Egypt that led to the dispersal of a number of African peoples. This destruction of African civilizations continued with the Moors who attacked Songhai, the last Sudanic Empire in West Africa in the 1490s. From a pan-African perspective, African people's education could be said to have gone through six major stages: education in the Egyptian temples; ethnic or traditional education; Islamic education; European missionary and colonial education; colonial educational adaptation imported from Europe and America; and neocolonial education from Europe and America. A number of African and non-African writers have examined the concept of 'Educational Adaptation'. By the 1940s, even the most ardent colonialist must have felt a 'new wave' from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
