Education In Africa, 1930s – Film 96898

Urbanised Africans and growing up in Africa. Group of black people of all ages standing outside corrugated iron housing. A brick house in a suburb. A husband and wife with their two children sit in chairs outside their house, man is wearing a smart suit, the woman rocks an infant. A woman holds a small swaddled baby. A tubby infant is weighed on scales. Two black babies are washed in plastic bowls by nurses or missionary women, one struggles and cries. A woman feeds her naked baby mealie-meal. She is sitting on the ground and is naked from the waist up. Another woman feeding her baby with a bottle whilst sitting under a tree. An older infant is cradled by a fully dressed black woman. Missionary school with nun, children are doing exercises in front of the school building. A woman hands out dolls from a box to girls sitting on the ground. The girls clamber to get a doll. School desks outside a thatched building, children being taught outside. Young boys herding cattle. A boy beats the school drum to summon children to school. Boys arrive at school on the back of donkeys and cows. Three children in school uniform sitting under a tree eating sticks of sugar cane. A black teacher using a black board outside instructs a class of children sitting on logs. The children write on slates. Older children being taught. Close up of a girl with a cut or stretched ear lobe. More students being taught outside. Secondary aged students arriving by ox cart for the start of term, carrying suitcases. Hoeing the fields and crops. Learning carpentry. Students building a brick school room. Older students of Lovedale College, Eastern Cape, South Africa, going out to carry out agricultural work. They carry hoes and push wheelbarrows. Harvesting hay by hand. Boys scraping cow hides as they learn the art of tanning and leather making. Later boys are seen using leather for shoe repairs. Students spinning yarn outside. Clay moulding. Students type at desks outside. Two boys battle with sticks. Scouts with Union Jack flags and a band marching on parade. Wolf Cubs do a dance in a circle. Group of scouts have meal of roast corn sitting around a camp fire.

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