Education in exile: the African National Congress's Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) and Dakawa Development Centre in Tanzania: 1978-1992
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This chapter looks at ANC education in exile, and, specifically, at the movement's educational experiments in Tanzania at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), at Mazimbu, near Morogoro, and at Dakawa, sixty kilometers to the North. It notes the movement's breadth of vision and humanitarianism as reflected in its concern with education in the midst of a revolutionary struggle. However, it also describes the warping effect of exile and of a necessary but confining militancy, where ANC schooling in Tanzania was used for propaganda as well as educational purposes. This, in turn, impacted on educational practice, making it difficult to admit problems or wrong turnings; it bred, it might be said, an element of duplicity in a number of fields.
DOI: 10.14749/30050257
Author: Human Sciences Research Council
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
Funder: Human Sciences Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W7079992425
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