This paper surveys the literature on the returns to education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Income and/or output differentials in the urban formal and informal sectors and in agriculture are first described and the implications for rate of return patterns discussed. This is followed by a discussion of aspects of eduation-migration relationships. Next, survey results of the effects of education on fertility, infant mortality and nutrition are presented and competing sets of implications highlighted. Finally, at a very general level, the effects of education on a variety of other non-monetary variables are considered.