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1808
Settlement in Sierra Leone becomes British Crown Colony
1816
Banjul established as base for British anti-slavers
1822
Liberia founded
1843
Banjul (formerly Bathurst,) in Gambia, becomes British Crown Colony
1861
British colony founded in Lagos, Nigeria
1874
Ghana becomes a British Crown Colony
1890
Zanzibar becomes British protectorate
1907
Malawi becomes British colony
1920
British colony established in Kenya
1922
Jones publishes 1st Phelps-Stokes report
1923
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) becomes British crown colony
1925
Colonial Office publishes "Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa".
1925
Jones publishes 2nd Phelps-Stokes report
1953
UNESCO monograph 'Use of Vernacular Languages in Education'
1953
Unesco conference on African languages and English in education, in Nigeria
1959
Congress of Negro Writers and Artists calls for languages other than English as national languages in Africa
1960
Nigeria gains independence
1963
Kenya gains independence
1964
M A Frankel teaches in Uganda
1970
"Language in Education in Eastern Afica"
1974
Swahali replaces English as the official language of Kenya
1979
Longman set up Readability Pilot Study
1981
'Language Policy for Nambia' report published
1982
'Dictionary of Africanisms'
1988
Textbooks for Africa project announced
1996
Rwanda gives English official status
1996
Algeria replaces French with English as chief foreign language in schools