The Lacuna in African Education Systems: Why the Systems are not Achieving the Needs for 21st Century Learned Citizens

Abstract

This is a library–based research paper that explored problems facing African education systems in the 21^st century and how to address these challenges. It is almost six decade since first African country received its independence from colonial masters  but African education systems are still ineffective and pupils are not in schools and those in schools some are graduating without  basic literacy skills of writing, reading and doing simple numeracy. The findings indicated that African education systems  has a lot structural problems such as policy issues, management problems, poor curriculum,  lack of funding  and l ‘political will’  to improve education system. This study  provide some suggestions on how to reform African education systems so as foster the skills development for the 21 century citizens.