摘要：Koyeima government school was established in 1930 to give practical and technical training to chiefs’ sons in Sierra Leone. This was the colonial government’s view of the project. The reality proved to be different, and was an example of the resistance shown by Africans to the British view of what ‘their place’ was. The school was aimed at boys from the rural Protectorate area of Sierra Leone, rather than the better-educated elite of Freetown. The colonial government’s strategies to use the school as a means to reinforce and continue colonial rule of the Protectorate were disrupted when the boys walked out of school to demand better conditions. This strike action was part of a larger movement by Africans in Sierra Leone to take control of education to better themselves, rather than promote colonial interests.
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