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Title:The Promise of Partnership and Continuities of Dependence: External Support to Higher Education in Africa
Authors:Samoff, JoelISNI
Carrol, BidemiISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:47
Issue:1
Period:April
Pages:67-199
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:development cooperation
universities
Education and Oral Traditions
Drought and Desertification
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1514799
Abstract:Edited version of a report supported by the African Studies Association and prepared for the Colloquium on Higher Education in Africa, held in conjunction with the ASA annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in December 2002, detailing the nature and extent of emergent external support for African higher education and the kinds of partnerships that have engaged African tertiary institutions recently. While external support may bring new funds, it may also bring new problems, and commonly carries conditions. Academic partnerships are often one-sided. By framing, organizing, and orienting the academic enterprise, and thus ways of knowing and validating knowledge, partnerships threaten to reintroduce, in both explicit and subtle ways, the external direction of the earlier 'aid' era. The report is based on an extensive survey of links between African institutions of higher education and foreign governments, foundations, and universities, with particular emphasis on links with the United States. It is followed by a commentary by David Court, also presented at the 2002 ASA annual meeting (p. 201-207). App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited]
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