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Title:The university: its relevance and legitimacy to the community in East Africa
Author:Iconoclastes
Year:1968
Periodical:East Africa Journal
Volume:5
Issue:12
Pages:7-10
Language:English
Geographic term:East Africa
Subject:universities
Abstract:Some remarks on problems facing the dual nature of a university-localness and universality- with special reference to East Africa: 1. 'The quest for relevance' deals with the debate whether the British model (Oxbridge) was the best that could h have been provided, and whether a 'typically African university' will emerge when the British and American midwives and nannies have left for home; 2. 'Crisis of legitimacy' deals with a crisis that universities today face viz. their existence has to be jusified; 3. 'Student power' deals with the feel African students have, on the whole, that they have been too pliant, and that it is high time they recognize their responsibilities to humanity.
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