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ABSTRACT

Education is as old as humanity and it's the bedrock of the nation. Aristotle holds that man desire to know and the quest for knowledge is the nature of man. In African continent, educational heritage has been there even before the advent of Europeans with their own education and methods. However, European education and methods did not yield much for Africans as education is globally aimed to bring enormous change and development, as it brings one out of darkness into enlightenment, discovery and creativity. Thus, the problem here is that even in this contemporary era, African nations are not yet developed and have not attained one goal among the millennium sustainable developmental goals. Africa with their education and methods is incapable of solving their major problems. Practicability or workability of African education is questionable and Africa is still bedevilled with catalogue of problems and challenges, ranging from under development, poverty, and corruption to bad leadership, human trafficking, insurgency, economic recession, youth restiveness and the likes. Using analysis and evaluative methods we look at educational heritage and methods prevalent and original in Africa like apprenticeship model and other non-formal education models and with enormous emphasis on productive or practical learning, sustainable development can gradually be achieved. Through functional education, skill acquisition and practice of skills, from the elementary stage African children and youths will be better informed, formed and reformed. This will gradually make the African youths to be really productive and of course remedy some problems prevalent in the continent.