African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives

Knowledge and Change in African Universities

A major contention in the book is that African excellence should be measured against its own uniqueness as universities in Africa exhibit competitive knowledge processes on a global scale without losing the critical international dimensions
The book holds that decolonisation as change of ways and sources of knowing is a critical epistemological concern for the future of the university in Africa
The book suggests that knowledge for public good should be at the epicentre of the decolonised curriculum in the African university

Volume 1 – Current Debates

Volume 2 – Re-Imagining the Terrain