ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the developments in three specific countries – Botswana, Nigeria and Ghana – and explained how colonial influence shaped the development of nursing education generally in Africa. The University of Botswana has subsequently examined nursing programmes in Botswana to reveal gaps, overlaps, similarities and differences. National accreditation needed to deliver nursing programmes in Botswana was traditionally given by the South African Nursing Council. Nursing and midwifery professions in Nigeria were considered highly important by the British during its colonization in 1914 because of nursing’s significant contribution to the health of the colonial masters, their families, the members of the army, the colonial administrators and the public at large. In Ghana, information about nurse education between 1957 and 1970 is limited. However, interviews with key individuals as well as analysis of specific letters and published papers have uncovered a limited history of nurse education in Ghana.
