Probably there was only school and usually those schools are reserved for the lucky citizens who lives in the urban areas and beside there were not many importance attached to foreign language pursuit since their generation can farm and eat what they cultivate and cultivate what they eat, they simply were out of touch with the modern world. They never see it as unnecessary or not important, they simply do not think a child needs to obtain certain education in order to be a successful man since farmers and people with more wives and children were seen as the richest in the society.
As generation goes by, integration and the influence of western education becoming more and more powerful and desirable, many parents including my parents think that they cannot afford to keep their children out of touch with the wider world by keeping them uneducated will hinder their development in life and the children they are yet to have. Since we have already been colonized by Britain, then the British influence in our country and plus having to have English as an official language of the country and all