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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | African universities and globalisation |
Author: | Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Feminist Africa |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 64-85 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | brain drain gender relations globalization educational exchanges universities Education and Training economics research migration Equality and Liberation |
External link: | https://feministafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/fa_1_feature_article_3.pdf |
Abstract: | This essay examines the dynamics and implications of globalization for African universities, as well as the gender implications of these changes, in terms of factors such as institutional access and the production of feminist scholarship. Africa's international academic relations or exchanges flow in two directions: among the African countries themselves and between African countries and countries on other continents. The essay restricts itself to exploring the linkages of African institutions of higher education outside the continent. It first examines the general implications of globalization for higher education and draws out the gender implications of the transformations spawned by globalization. Then it explores the patterns of Africa's international academic exchanges with the North. This is followed by an interrogation of the role of the contemporary African intellectual diaspora - the question of the 'brain drain'. Finally, the essay probes the challenges of Africanizing and engendering globalization processes and discourses. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |