Coloniality and the Governance of Education in West Africa

This book explores the agenda-setting and mediation of the education decentralisation policy in Benin as a postcolonial, francophone context in West Africa.

As such, it throws into sharp relief how far education decentralisation, as a global governance reform, informs policy and practice. The research draws on qualitative data with more than 80 research participants, including semi-structured inte...