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John Bowers was the son of Basil Bowers, headmaster of Cheltenham College Junior School, and was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford.
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He was the architect of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s activities worldwide in literacy and adult education. After postgraduate courses in Arabic, Islamic Culture, Anthropology and Law, he joined the Sudan Political Service in 1935. During World World War II he was seconded to the Sudan Artillery Regiment, based at Kufra oasis.
Later he fought in Ethiopia with the Upper Nile Scouts and in the Libyan desert, where he was badly wounded.
He was private secretary to Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, who was murdered by the Stern Gang in 1944. Following the war he joined United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at the request of Sir Julian Huxley, where he worked in adult education, agriculture and literacy in Africa, India, South-East Asia and Central America.
Bowers was a vigorous supporter of the Third World through the United Nations. He inducted qualified educationists from the so-called Third World countries to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, who later on contributed immensely to their respective countries in the field of education, such as Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi, who is considered as one of the pioneers in the field of Adult Education in India.
