"No society can escape the responsibility for trying to plan the education of the children who grow up in it, but the more complicated a society is, the more difficult it is to make such plans and the more tempting it is to see them as somebody's concern," writes Hugh Hawes in Curriculum and Reality in African Primary Schools.
This has been a truism since Independence in 1980 when Government, through the Ministry of Education set up the Curriculum Development Unit (CDU), a division with special responsibility to ensure that the colonial curriculum was revamped to suit the new order.
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