If bad luck came to any family the whole village

helped. No one went homeless or hungry. Quarrels were settled by the elders. The young people listened to the older ones and the older ones taught the young ones the ways of the village. These ways were good as long as Africans wanted to live as simple farmers or cattle raisers or food-gatherers. But now many Africans wanted to like the people of Europe, America and Japan. They did not want to make their clothes with their own hands and grow just enough to eat. They did not want to live in one room huts that they had built themselves. They wanted to have houses with many rooms and windows and electric lights. But how were young African to have all these things

Their fathers could not teach them how to build a house with many rooms or a skyscraper made of glass and concrete or a bridge the hung from cables. How were they to learn all these things? Schools were finding springing up everywhere but not fast enough. Young Africans were finding that they must study  and learn in any way they could even if it meant leaving their villages for many years and staying in a strange contry.