Photographs, from a full set of at least fifteen (reference numbers DW 5058-5072), relating to Udi Division. There are some ambiguities in the spelling of place names, but those given in captions on the photographs have been followed.

In the Udi Division of Onitsha Province of Nigeria, there is in progress a mass education campaign which is likely to be taken as a model for similar campaigns in other parts of Africa. In Udi, mass literacy is not regarded as an end in itself but is used as a means of awakening an interest in all things which go to produce better living conditions. The people are being taught the value of roads, schools, co-operatives, medical services, and they are encouraged to provide these amenities for themselves as far as it lies within their power to do so.

Experiments in mass literacy were started in Ogwofia village, Udi Village and two other villages in 1943. At first all teaching was voluntary. The people started a fund to buy school materials, and to help swell the fund they built a reading room, a sub-dispensary, maternity home, model latrines, incinerator and a small temporary market. The people have submitted to a leprosy survey, agreed to a hookworm survey, and are now considering communal plantations.