WHAT WILL THE ^HITE MAN DO NEXT? 



the Africa of tomorrow begins in fuller measure to 

 emerge. 



But one great drawback to the present system of edu- 

 cation in agricultural communities is that, in the great 

 majority of cases, it necessitates the removal of the pu- 

 pils from the land. It crowds the young people together 

 in the towns where food is dear. In their spare time they 

 have little, or nothing, to do, and often take to thieving 

 as an easy means of existence. But the greatest disadvan- 

 tage of the present system is that once the African 

 youth has left the land to attend school, he rarely, if 

 ever, returns. All family ties are cut; he begins to dis- 

 parage his honest old parents. Stealing to him is no longer 

 a crime, unless he happens to be caught. Now that he 

 is "book-savvy" he can live on his wits. He may write 

 letters for his bush brother on payment of enormous 

 fees, and some day he might even have the chance of 

 getting a job as a clerk in a Government office. Even the 

 most casual observer cannot fail to see the innumerable 

 defects in the present system, especially in agricultural 

 communities, where the prosperity of the people de- 

 pends upon the cultivation of the land, and the pros- 

 perity of Africa is essentially bound up in agriculture. 



It will be my purpose to show how wireless telephony 

 could be used to supplement, if not to replace, the exist- 

 ing system, and at the same time to remedy some of its 

 worse defects and assist the people to increase produc- 

 tion and utilize the other improvements in transport 

 and communication. When once the Africans can be in- 



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