“This is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex nature of colonial education in general, and in relation to the Gold Coast/Ghana, in particular. Equally important it situates the historical development of British colonial educational policy within the nexus of educational debates of the time, with a great deal of emphasis on the ambiguity of that policy – at the broad political and ideological level and in the specific context of the Gold Coast and the unique educational experiment located at Achimota from 1927.”