1. Introduction to Africa's Educational Wealth -- 2. Ancient Africa Education: Egypt and Nubia -- 3. East Africa Indigenous Education before the Era of Islam -- 4. Anglophone Africa: Education, Religion, and Nation Building, 1960s-1990s -- 5. Conduit and Gatekeeper: Practices and Contestations of Language within Informal and Formal Education in Senegal -- 6. Islamic/Muslim Education in Africa: From North to West Africa -- 7. Christianity and Vocational Education in Africa -- 8. Central African Education: Indigenous to Western -- 9. Reconstructing African Philosophies of Education: Historical and Actual Analyses -- 10. African Indigenous Knowledge, African State Formation, and Education -- 11. African Education and Cultural Belief Systems: Extrapolations from Igboland, Nigeria -- 12. African Theatre as Indigenous Education -- 13. North Africa Nomadic Indigenous Knowledge: Ayt Khabbach Nomads Urban Challenges in Southeastern Morocco -- 14. Elders' Cultural Knowledges and African Indigeneity -- 15. East Africa and Indigenous Knowledge: Its Nature, Contents, Aims, Contemporary Structures and Vitality -- 16. Gendered Sphere of Traditional Knowledge in Morocco -- 17. African Indigenous Knowledges and the Decolonization of Education in Africa -- 18. Islamic Education in Contemporary Africa -- 19. East Africa and Contemporary Islamic Education: The Unholy Triple Alliance Conundrum -- 20. Central and Southern Africa: Islamic Education Variations -- 21. Islamic Philosophies of Education in Africa -- 22. Gendering Contemporary Islamic Education -- 23. Francophone Education Intersectionalities: Gender, Language, Religion -- 24. Islamic Education and the Quest for Islamic Identity: The Case of Ghana -- 25. The Africam ajami. Case of Senegal -- 26. Muslim Education Policies and Epistemologies in African Tertiary Education -- 27. African Education: Consciencism or Neo-Colonialism -- 28. Visual Studies of Community Schools in an Inner Suburb of Bamako -- 29. Afro-Anglophone Education -- 30. Universal Primary Education: Facets and Meanings -- 31. Tertiary Education in Anglophone West Africa: Contextualizing Challenges -- 32. Whose African Education is it? -- 33. Rethinking Pedagogy and Education Practice in Africa: Comparative Analysis Liberative and Ubuntu Education Philosophies -- 34. Where Religion and Education Meet in Africa -- 35. Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics -- 36. A Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge, Customary Law and Education in Africa: An Anti-Colonial Project -- 37. Diaspora Migrations: Brain Drain or Symbiosis -- 38. Afrocentric Education in North America: An Introduction.-.

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society.