10 COUNTRIES WITH FREE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION IN AFRICA. WILL IT LAST?

ambia introduced free upper secondary education in 2015, Namibia and Tanzania in 2016, Ghana in 2017, Malawi and Sierra Leone in 2019, Zambia in 2022, and South Sudan in 2023. There thus appears to be a strong momentum towards free education at the lower as well as at the upper secondary level. These ten countries have already achieved free primary education with countries such as South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana having achieved close to universal (>90%) primary school completion.