Education as a site of political struggle in Sierra Leone
Abstract
This article investigates the example of a state-funded secondary school in colonial Sierra Leone to get at the natutre of political struggles over education and over knowledge, power, and identity more broadly. Bo School was formed as a school for indigenous chiefs' sons and intended to create a more "modern" chieftancy to aid in British indirect rule. However, the participants remade the school to suit their own strategic goals. The essay problematizes a simplistic notion of school as a manipulable machine for the skill and knowledge transfer and rather situates the institution historically and politically in everyday practice. Connections are mode to the ongoing civil war in the region.
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