MEN OF THE TREES 



art of production, they must be given a common lan- 

 guage to enable them to carry on both internal and ex- 

 ternal trade along the new roads and railways to the 

 outside world, and so turn to the best account their 

 local products. 



The subject of education in Africa is receiving a great 

 deal of attention by many interested students in the 

 United States, and the present systems are under severe 

 criticism. Much valuable work, however, has been car- 

 ried out by Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones of the Phelps-Stokes 

 Fund and his committee in cooperation with the Inter- 

 national Education Board. In a recent report on Educa- 

 tion in East Africa this great student of education sum- 

 marizes the situation as follows: 



The trusteeship of Europe for Africa is shown in col- 

 ony, protectorate and mandated territory, where Great 

 Britain, Germany and Belgium have contributed to the 

 development of country and people. The railway has 

 opened the country from coast to lake. Already the cot- 

 ton fields of Uganda count in the trade of the world. 

 Triumphs of medical research are conquering tropical 

 disease. A new day for Africa has begun to dawn. Alike 

 among the wild Masai, the virile Kavirondo, the re- 

 sponsive tribes of Uganda, on the Highlands of Kenya 

 and on the shores of the Lake, education is preparing 

 the African for life and for leadership. Christian com- 

 munities are developing into ordered life. Missionaries 

 and governments are jointly at work. As the Africa of 

 today has moved far from the Africa of yesterday, so 



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