HIGHER EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA: PARADIGMS OF DEVELOPMENT, DECLINE AND DILEMMAS
ISBN: 9781592214167
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Few regions of the world can boast of having the same level of potential and natural endowments as Africa. Yet, it is a tragic irony that the continent is incontestably the most unsuccessful in providing the human and capital resources to sustain itself. It is thus a reasonable intellectual quest to query the intrinsic and foreign factors that account for the illusiveness of success in this realm. It seems, then, that the most logical social institution to turn to at such a time as this is education, most especially higher education. This book, Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa: Paradigms of Development, Decline and Dilemmas is thus a response to such an enigmatic paradox. It is an assemblage of scholarly discourses on inexhaustible critical issues affecting the lack of adequate productivity of higher education in Africa. Some of the external problems isolated include the vicious cycle of Africa’s economic instability, inadequate political leadership, disruptive military interventions, and several other social conditions engendered by several generations of a lingering pathetic colonial history.