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| Title: | The African University and Social Reform |
| Author: | Tembo, Lyson P. |
| Year: | 1978 |
| Periodical: | African Social Research |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 379-397 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | universities Education and Oral Traditions |
| Abstract: | Aim is to register the worry that African uniVersities are culturally overtly dependent on Western cultural values, just as their countries are economically dependent. The thesis is that unless African universities are transformed in such a way that they reflect African conditions of life, they will never contribute effectively to social reform. The author is thus in sympathy with the Ugandan iconoclast, Okot p'Bitek, when he says: I have seen apes on bicycles and have laughed. The thought that the educational institutions in the country continue to produce cultural apes at the taxpayers' expense is painful beyond bearing (Okot p Bitek. Africa's Cultural Revolution. Nairobi. 1973; p. VI). |