January 7, 2003
Thank you for the site. It is a vital resource centre.
The one on 100 best schools is quite a challenge to all countries to improve on their education systems and have their 15 minutes on such a list. If they don't
most parents will prefer to send their children to Europe, India and America for quality education, leading to more financial and brain drain from Africa.
We in Kenya have finally elected a president. The mutual
feeling is that expressed by Abraham Lincoln in his definition of a "democracy". We would have fallen into a pit for another 24 years with a selected president.
What the African leaders should learn from
Kenya's lesson is that we Africans have matured to the extent of making informed judgment and independent choices. The dictators are therefore on "borrowed time".
Sophia Mburu
Nairobi, Kenya
January 8, 2003
As an Old Girl of the Pretoria High School for Girls, I would like to inform you that this school was opened on 10 October, 1902 by Miss Edith Aitken. More information is available in We Work
in Hope - a history of the Pretoria High School for Girls (published in 1992), by L Becker and S van Putten.
Laurel Becker
Pretoria, South Africa
January 9, 2003
I would like to commend you and
your team for the fantastic work you have done in building what I would describe as an online African encyclopedia.
It is sometimes interesting, or should I say surprising, how little people in the western world seem
to know about Africa as a continent from its political development to geographical mapping.
I am Ugandan and it sometimes amazes me to meet someone who only relates to Uganda with reference to the era of Idi Amin and
even goes on to ask if he is still president.
Well, maybe the Uganda Ministry of Tourism does not do enough to market the country but I still have your site, Africa Almanac, as a reference for those who I meet that
want to know more about Africa.
An Allergory of Prudence: 'To the past, the man of today must do well to turn so as not to put the future at risk.'
Keep it up.
Raymond Ofungi
Johannesburg, South Africa
January 11, 2003
I am a student in Seattle, Washington. I am interested in information on your top colleges and universities in Africa. In am currently in college with interest in mind to complete a
double major in Psychology and Microbiology.
I would appreciate any assistance with this inquiry that is available.
Ariel Bangs
Seattle, Washington, USA
January 13, 2003
In your Somalia
presidents archive (under "Africa Records"), there was a mistake. The first President after the independence of Somalia was Aden Abdulle Osman (1960-1966). Muhamad Ibrahim Egal was the Prime Minister in the same
cabinet. Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke (1966-1969) was killed by a policeman from his clan on October 15, 1969.
Gianni Mari
Rome, Italy
January 16, 2003
I commend your sterling efforts in trying to
provide information on education in Africa. Your list of the 50 oldest schools in Africa is however erroneous.
Omitted from your list are five schools in Sierra Leone which should have been in that list. The Annie
Walsh Memorial School (Freetown, 1849 - the oldest all-girls school in Africa), the Methodist Boys High (Freetown, 1874), the Methodist Girls High School (Freetown, 1880), the Albert Academy (Freetown, 1904) and the Bo
Government School (Bo, 1906).
Also, Mfantsimpim School (Cape Coast, 1876), and Achimota (1927), two excellent and famous high schools in Ghana are also omitted.
Ismail Rashid
Vasser, Michigan, USA
January 26, 2003
Thank you for your immense efforts that culminated in 700 Best Known Africans. Will you please double the following two names in alltheweb.com.
10. Tunde Baiyewu
11. Mike Jensen (very common name)
Cecilia Okwuosa
February 3, 2003
I would like to nominate Tsogo High School in Brits, Gauteng, South Africa for your
Best schools list.
First opened its
doors in 1976, this is a school that began at a period in South African history when life for most black South African youth appeared bleak and the cry for freedom overshadowed literacy and/or academic needs. Those nuns
in Brits believed and still believe in building community and shaping ideas for a better future. (Come to think of it, despite
The fact that this is a Catholic School, academic study was and still is priority number one.)
Some of our famous graduates are businessperson Patrice Motsepe and radio personality Tim Modise.
Noosie Petlele
Publisher, eyethuonline.com
Duluth, Guteng, South Africa
February 3, 2003
I would like to nominate Mangu High School as one of the schools that deserve to be in the list of Africa's best schools.
Not only has it produced the current president of Kenya, Mwau Kibaki and the minister of education, Hon. George Saitoti; it has a good record in sports such as Basketball and
Rugby and at the same time performed consistently well in academic work.
Its population is fro diverse background and is generally a wonderful experience.
James Kariuki Muiruri
Kent, England
February 8, 2003
I have faith in the nomination of Starehe Boys Centre of Nairobi, Kenya on the basis of academic merit and sound upbringings of youth in today's day and age.
Yusuf Mohamud
Northampton, England
February 11, 2003
When you mention the best school (primary, secondary or high) then you have to put Starehe Boy's Centre in Nairobi, Kenya as the very first on the list
without any hesitation.
This school is without doubt the best all round, not to mention the director G. Griffin who is a wonderful person and deserves a lot of thanks from all the right thinking members of society and
especially the government of Kenya for his dedication and commitment. You just have to visit this school and find out for yourself about what I'm writing about.
Thank you for your good work too. We all appreciate it.
Kenneth Njuguna
Seattle, Washington, USA
February 17, 2003
By no doubt, Kings' College Budo is one of the best schools in Africa. I suggest it be rated among the best schools in Africa.
Donna Salima
