Duality of Citizenship Discourse in the Studies of Sub-Saharan African Education: Two Publics in Africa

Since the 1980s, citizenship has become a major interest among education thinkers. At the same time, citizenship education also became people’s interest as means to create good citizens. Many countries have worked on citizenship education in their national curricula and in their studies and research, as well as have Sub-Saharan African countries (hereafter Africa), many of which face the issue of democratization and nation building.