ABSTRACT
This chapter examines education and health in Africa, showing both to be important public goods contributing to human development. It outlines why some areas require special emphasis in Africa. Education has also come to be seen in Africa as critical to economic opportunities and to securing household survival, especially as literacy has spread and written communication has come to shape legal relationships and obligations. The chapter identifies priority education gaps, and explores the role of social movement learning through a Ghana case study. Health and education are important not just because of the benefits they bring to individual households. Education has broader social benefits such as socializing people to connect with the wider civil community, providing the basis for informed participation as responsible citizens and transferring ethical values to new generations. The chapter shifts the focus to health concerns, analyzing health care conditions across countries, priority gaps in health systems, and Botswana's response to HIV-AIDS.
