1. Introduction: Historical Trajectories of Education and Development in (Post)Colonial Africa2. Welfare and Education in British Colonial Africa, 1918-19453. "Une aventure sociale et humaine": The Services des Centres Sociaux in Algeria, 1955-19624. Education through labour: from the deuxieme portion du contingent to the youth civil service in West Africa (Senegal/Mali, 1926-1968)5. Becoming a Good Farmer - Becoming a Good Farm Worker. On Colonial Education Policies in Germany and German South West Africa, ca 1890 to 19186. "Cruce et Aratro." Fascism, Missionary Schools, and Labor in 1920s Italian Somalia7. Becoming Workers of Greater France: Vocational Education in Colonial Morocco, 1912-19398. Engineering socialism: the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in the 1970s and 1980s9. Enlightened developments? Inter-imperial organizations and the issue of colonial education in Africa (1945-1957)10. The Fabric of Academic Communities at the Heart of the British Empire's Modernization Policies11. Exploring "Socialist Solidarity" in higher Education: East-German Advisors in Post-Independence Mozambique (1975-1992)