The latest Kibaré no. 11, your journal on non-formal education, features the flagship event of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the 2017 Triennale on education and training in Africa, which was held, from 14 th to 17 th March 2017, in Diamniadio, Senegal, located in Dakar’s suburb. As reflected by its name which stands for “peace” and “dialogue”, Diamniadio has been a meeting place for the representatives of the majority of Africa’s education policy makers.
Twenty four African Education Ministers, twenty eight national delegations and several special guests, including His Excellency, Mr. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal as well as the President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Dr. Akinwuni A. Adesina, who reflected on ways and means to be considered for achieving the Global 2030 Agenda and Africa’s Agenda 2063. Your journal provides you with the results of this high-level policy dialogue.
It will also highlights the results of the Peer Review in Angola, a country with immense potential, whose ambition is to use education as the main instrument for recovering from two painful civil wars, and a major economic crisis. In Angola, education is considered as the mean to overcome national challenges and envisage a bright future with solid economic and social development.
Your journal also continues to examine the implementation of a Common Set of Core Skills for all educational sub-systems attended by African youth, with the specific aim of integrating non-formal education in the process. The experiment is already being studied in pilot countries such as Benin, Ghana and Senegal, with the aim of proposing practical and feasible implementation arrangements.
Moreover, your Kibaré continues to publish a series of works on traditional education in the Tuareg nomadic areas, whose origins go back to ancient Africa, long before the European cultural civilization. At the same time, it presents specific cases of national educational system development as the one implemented in Burkina Faso through PDSEB, the “Programme de Développement Stratégique de l’Education de Base au Burkina Faso” .
On behalf of the Working Group on Non-Formal Education (WGNFE) Team, I would like to wish you a good reading and encourage you to submit your comments and contributions.
Bah-Lalya
