If you don’t do it our way, forget it! Contextualising Education in E ritrea: Reflections on a Research Experien ce

This paper is part of an unfinished journey into African education and reflects on

experienced cultural dilemm as involved in doing qualitative

research on the context of educational thinking in Eritrea. The thirty-year Independence War (1961-1991) – the two last decades under the leadership of Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), Eritrea’s short post-colonial history, the unexpected recent war with Ethiopia(1998-2000), and the fact thatcentral EPLF leaders are still in political power, are reasons why Eritrea attracts researchers from many continent read more