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‘BETWEEN EDUCATION AND CATASTROPHE’: CÔTE D'IVOIRE'S PROGRAMME D'ÉDUCATION TÉLÉVISUELLE AND THE URGENCY OF DEVELOPMENT (1968–1983)

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ELISA PROSPERETTI
ELISA PROSPERETTI*
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Princeton University
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Abstract

Côte d'Ivoire's Programme d'Éducation Télévisuelle (PETV) was one of postcolonial Africa's most innovative educational reforms. And yet, PETV was implemented by a country exemplary for its educational conservatism. This apparent paradox is explained by the Ivorian state's developmentalist vision had crowned education its ‘priority of priorities‘. By charting the adoption and termination of PETV, this article argues for the centrality of formal schooling to the history of development.

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Cote dIvoireWest AfricaEducationDevelopmentPostcolonialTechnologyYouth
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Research Article
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The Journal of African History , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 3 - 23
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Footnotes

I would like to thank the Journal's referees and the participants of Princeton University's African History Workshop for their comments on earlier drafts. Thanks are also due to Richard Kouakou and Kramoko Vami for their kindness in Bondoukou. Above all, I am grateful for the friendship of Alexis Motto, Henri Yapi, and Fabio Viti, without whom this article would never have been written. Author's email: [email protected].

These words, which I first encountered as a citation of the Ivoirian in charge of the PETV production studio, allude to H.G. Wells's 1920 bestseller, The Outline of History, in which he famously concludes that human history is becoming ‘more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ H.G. Wells, The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (3rd edn, New York, 1921), 1100.

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79 There is disagreement as to how well the sets worked. Désalmand reports that between 20 and 40 per cent of broadcasts were not received. Désalmand, Histoire, 337.

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81 Richard Kouakou, a former school teacher, saved every issue of L’École Permanente from 1975 to 1978 and graciously shared them with me.

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101 PETV, Livre du Maître, 28; emphasis added.

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103 Personal correspondence with Aletta Grisay, 25 and 28 Nov. 2016. Grisay headed a team of pedagogical evaluators in assessing PETV's language instruction during the 1970s under the joint authority of the University of Liège and the Ivorian Ministry of Education.

104 Interview with Jean-Jacques Alloko.

105 N'Da, ‘Un professeur’.

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114 Telephone interview with Steven J. Klees, 22 May 2017.

115 In 1976, 55 per cent of students failed the secondary school entry exam. A longstanding problem, it ‘was complicated by the extension this year of television education to Grade 6 (CM2).’ Centre des Archives Diplomatiques, Nantes, 1PO/1/155, ‘Note sur la rentrée scolaire 1976–1977 dans la primaire et la secondaire: vue par la presse locale’, Sept. 1976, 4.

116 Interview with Richard Westebbe by Robert W. Oliver, World Bank Group Archives Oral History Program, 25 Jan. 1998, 24.

117 According to Pauvert and Egly, 300 detractors wrote letters in response to Fraternité Matin’s call for debate on PETV. Pauvert and Egly, Complexe, 39.

118 Bianchini, École, 153.

119 In 1980, UNESCO estimated that 75 per cent of Ivorian women and 42 per cent of men were illiterate. Désalmand, Histoire, 359.

120 SYNESCI, ‘Les enseignants demandent’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 5 Aug. 1980, 3.

121 ‘Enseignement télévisuel: les lecteurs s'interrogent…’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 20 Aug. 1980.

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123 O. Traore, ‘Établir le dialogue sur des bases concrètes’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 20 Aug. 1980, 8.

124 M. G. Gonty, ‘Un enseignement plein de lacunes’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 27 Aug. 1980, 16.

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126 SYNESCI, ‘Les enseignants’.

127 Les inspecteurs de l'enseignement primaire, ‘Un système aux qualités reconnues’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 5 Aug. 1980, 3.

128 L'Association des Inspecteurs de l'Enseignement primaire de Côte d'Ivoire, ‘Mise au point de l'AIEPCI’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 27 Aug. 1980, 16.

129 UNESCO, ‘Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP)’, (http://www.indexmundi.com).

130 Désalmand, ‘Aventure’, 94.

131 ‘Les Lecteurs’.

132 Désalmand, ‘Aventure’, 95.

133 M. Kouame, ‘Conseil national: d'importants décisions’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 26 Nov. 1981, 7.

134 Désalmand, Histoire, 342.

135 Pauvert and Egly, Complexe, 34 and Désalmand, Histoire, 328.

136 Egly, ‘L'utilisation’, 338.

137 L. Zaki, Enqûete sur la Banque Mondiale (Paris, 1989), 70.

138 R. Autra, ‘Une boîte ne peut restituer l'ambiance réceptive d'un être vivant’, Fraternité Matin (Abidjan), 30–31 Aug. 1980, 10.

139 Interview with Koffi Seraphin Brou.