ABSTRACT
Issues of vocational education for work and of problems and structures contemporary the education in these societies cannot be properly understood or explained without taking into account the overall historical constraints of colonial. Many Africans felt that attempts to gear educational systems to the traditional and/or rural environments were means of perpetuating the inferior status of their race. African evidence seems to suggest, for example, that "education" is seen as wholly restricted to reading and writing activities and/or academic education. Thus, vocational education runs the risk, at all times, of being seen as an illegitimate extension of the concept of "education" and vocational schools are similarly viewed. While non-formal vocational education can be important potential for local job creation, for that very reason it faces problems of replicable at national level. Parents and teachers all over the world have used the education system as a means of improvement.
