Nordic Journal of African Studies

This study investigates the experiences of those learning tailoring and trading in urban Sierra Leone, examining why they engage in training, what is basically taught, and the training out-comes. It includes ethnographic fieldwork on vocational training schools and apprenticeships in workplaces, and…

In South Africa, skills development is the cornerstone of the government’s developmental strategy on which economic growth rests; rising unemployment and the skills shortage has added urgency to the issue. Before 1994, vocational education and training (VET) was the foundation of apartheid industria…