A history of African higher education from antiquity to the present : a critical synthesis
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.
Print Book, English, 2005
Praeger, Westport, Connecticut (U.S.A.), 2005
XII, 624 p. ; 24 cm.
9780313320613, 0313320616
912589240
PrefaceIntroductionPre-modern AfricaAfro-Arab Islamic AfricaAnglophone AfricaAnglophone Africa--II: Ethiopia, Liberia, South AfricaEurophone AfricaThematic Perspective: The Role of Foreign AidConclusion: The Colonial LegacyAppendix I: An Exploration into the Provenance of the Modern African UniversityAppendix II: The Historical Antecedents of the Disjuncture Between Pre-Modern and Modern AfricaAppendix III: The European Colonial Empires in Africa on the Eve of Political IndependenceGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Bibliografía: p. [545]-602