Abstract: This paper delineates the negative role played by non-democratic political education and calls for the conception and hence development of a democratic political education to enhance Africa's current democratization derive. (1) It elucidates: The case for a democratic political education informed by African post-colonial experience and the specifity of its transition to democracy. (2) It criticizes Africa's education establishment its negative role during the reign of one-party regimes and military dictatorships. (3) It argues that the starting point in this process should be the liberation of the African education establishment and the reorientation of its mission to undertake citizen-centred political education. Democratic political education is particularly relevant today in order to a secure sustainable democratic process capable of nurturing a new generation of responsible governance.