Gold CoastGhana, A student teacher helps a man to read from a board propped up against the base of a tree during a literacy class; part of a mass literacy campaign launched by the British government in 1951 to improve literacy skills amongst African adults, both in their own languages and in English. Original manuscript caption: Mass literacy campaign in the near the French frontier, 1951-52. 1995/076/5/2/2/76.

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Adult literacy campaign, Gold Coast

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