VHere are 10 things to know about education in Africa before the arrival of Europeans.
1: African knowledge was not only transmitted orally
The idea that education in ancient Africa was only oral and unwritten is a myth. In his book, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora, Dr. Michael Gomez, author and professor of Middle Eastern History and Islamic Studies at New York University, states that as early as 300 BC, the Meroit civilization developed a clean writing system .