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Informationen zum Autor Y. G-M. Lulat teaches Africana studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the coauthor of Research on Foreign Students and International Study: An Overview and Bibliography (Praeger, 1985), and he is currently working on a book on U.S. relations with South Africa. Klappentext This book surveys the history of higher education-principally universities-in Africa. Its geographical coverage encompasses the entire continent, from Afro-Arab Islamic Africa in the north to the former apartheid South Africa in the south, and the historical time span ranges from the Egyptian civilization to the present. Since little has been written on this topic, particularly its historical component, the work fills an important gap in the literature. The book delineates the broad contours of the history of higher education in Africa in exceptional historical breadth, voluminously documenting its subject in the text, detailed footnotes, and lengthy appendices. Its methodological approach is that of critical historiography in which the location of the African continent in world history, prior to the advent of European colonization, is an important dimension. In addition, the book incorporates a historical survey of foreign assistance to the development of higher education in Africa in the post-independence era, with a substantive focus on the role of the World Bank. It has been written with the following readership in mind: those pursuing courses or doing research in African studies, studies of the African Diaspora, and comparative/international education. It should also be of interest to those concerned with developing policies on African higher education inside and outside Africa, as well as those interested in African Islamic history, the development of higher education in medieval Europe, the contributions of African Americans to African higher education, and such controversial approaches to the reading of African history as Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism. Zusammenfassung Presents a survey of the history of higher education - principally universities - in Africa. The geographical coverage of this book encompasses the entire continent! from Afro-Arab Islamic Africa in the north to the former apartheid South Africa in the south! and the historical time span begins since the Egyptian civilization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Pre-modern Africa Afro-Arab Islamic Africa Anglophone Africa Anglophone Africa--II: Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa Europhone Africa Thematic Perspective: The Role of Foreign Aid Conclusion: The Colonial Legacy Appendix I: An Exploration into the Provenance of the Modern African University Appendix II: The Historical Antecedents of the Disjuncture Between Pre-Modern and Modern Africa Appendix III: The European Colonial Empires in Africa on the Eve of Political Independence Glossary Bibliography Index ...
