ABSTRACT
This chapter represents an attempt at a cross-national comparison of educational philosophies advocated by two groups of intellectuals in American and Africa societies and two historical points in time. The analysis attempts to show the similarities in thought, even though Africa and America are different in stages of technological development, colonial history, composition of the societies, and the forms of government that each advocates. American and African leaders' stance against foreign education subsequently led them to advocate the establishment of national universities that would not only provide general enlightenment and an educated cadre that would outfit the other national institutions and bureaucracies, but also serve as integrative agents. Pan-African education and a Pan-African University are similar to Benjamin Rush's concepts of education to enhance the American republican form of government and his federal university that would recruit students from all the American states and melt them into cohesive citizenship.
