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Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa have known Islam since the early Hijri centuries. Despite the violent and bloody resistance of Africans, colonialists - with their military, political, and economic superiority – managed, in a short period of time, to extend their control over the lands, thereby opening a new page for modern and contemporary African history. To achieve their ends which they failed to achieve with weapons, the colonists established schools in aim to attract sons of Africans to them, in order to form new elite that guaranteed them to earn the loyalty of their parents and the continuity of their culture in the colonies. In this study, the researcher examines those schools, and what it breeds from elites who assumed power after the departure of the colonists, through several axes, namely: What is meant by colonial schools and what is meant by elites; a historical view on the development of colonial schools; the general strategy of colonialism (education in the service of the colonizer); mechanisms of elites production through colonial schools; the legacy of cultural occupation and its effects on creating awareness among postcolonial generations; and proposed alternatives, with a conclusion and recommendations
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