Introduction: Five years after Addis Ababa -- Primary education: Madagascar takes a new approach -- Secondary education: teacher training in Nigeria -- Higher education: East Africa's new university -- Literacy campaign: Mali's war on illiteracy -- Adult education: Senegal launches a pilot project -- Audio-visual education: fetishes and forts in Ghana -- Textbooks: printing plant in Cameroon -- School builldings: regional bureau in Sudan -- News servies: Yaounde gets its daily news