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Cast adrift for a longtime, Africa's educational system is stuck in an unproductive cycle that churns out hundreds of thousands of unemployed graduates. A continent, with the world's youngest population, yet education still mirrors the inadequacies of its progressive development. Miseducation in Africa asks a difficult question: What happens when education produces certificates faster than societies produce capability, opportunity and meaningful work? Before the colonial classroom, KASA WAYO journeys through Africa's intellectual, technological and educational inheritance: from ancient knowledge systems and African Christianity to Islamic scholarship, missionary education and the examination culture that followed colonial rule. The argument then enters the modern university, the labour market and the lives of Africa's graduates. Why can expanding higher education coexist with graduate unemployment? Why are practical skills still too often treated as inferior to academic credentials? Why do African universities research problems far removed from the communities outside their gates? And why does a continent rich in human ability continue exporting so much of its talent? Drawing on evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Cameroon and beyond, Miseducation in Africa argues that the answer is not to reject modern education, science or knowledge from elsewhere. It is to reconnect education with African realities while remaining fully open to the world. The book proposes a different educational architecture: classrooms connected to workshops, universities connected to production, apprenticeship recognised as education, examinations balanced by demonstrated competence, indigenous knowledge tested rather than romanticised, and technology used as a tool rather than another source of dependency. At is heart stands Sankofa: look backward, recover what remains useful, and carry it forward. This is not an argument for African superiority. Nor is it an argument for African isolation. It is an argument for African historical integrity, educational relevance and productive capability building. RECLAIM THE PAST, RETHINK EDUCATION. REBUILD THE AFRICAN FUTURE WORKFORCE. AFRICA MUST BUILD.