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Unemployment Among African School Leavers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Archibald Callaway
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Throughout West, East, and Central Africa today—at a time when all these countries want to quicken the pace of development—masses of young people drift from rural areas to the cities in search of work. Mainly primary school leavers with an aversion to traditional farming, they set out hopefully to become first-generation wage-earners. But neither the jobs nor the vocational training exists that could meet their demands. And, as each year passes, the numbers of unemployed in the cities swell.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1963 , pp. 351 - 371
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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Page 352 note 1 Conference of African States on the Development of Education in Africa, Addis Ababa, 15–25 May 1961. Final Report. (U.N.E.C.A./U.N.E.S.C.O.) Countries represented: Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Republic of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Leopoldville), Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Ruanda-Urundi, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanganyika, Togo, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zanzibar.

Page 368 note 1 An excellent—though somewhat incomplete—survey is given in ‘Youth Employment and Vocational Training Schemes in the Developing Countries’, in International Labour Review (Geneva), LXXXVI, no. 3, 09 1962.Google Scholar

Page 369 note 1 Under the auspices of the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa (C.C.T.A.), an African inter-governmental symposium was held at Dar es Salaam, 25–29 September 1962.