The Author: Kiluba L. Nkulu is a scholar of tertiary education in Africa and the United States. He holds a Licence es lettres from the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an M.A. in religious education from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in educational policy studies with an emphasis on higher education from the University of Kentucky. A native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he is the founder of Mchekiti, a non-profit, independent, Christian educational organization.
Dr Kiluba addresses the subject of higher education in this wide-ranging study. He looks at the subject across a range of historical and cultural examples, with his major emphasis on Africa in the post-colonial epoch. His examples include Spain, Newman, John Dewey, Muslim Egypt, old Timbuktu, and similar historical situations. He probes the parlous state of higher education in the post-colonial debacle, paying attention to nationalist ideas and their impact on society. He appeals for a recovery of the ideals of higher education in order to reform and revitalize it. The book should be of interest to those concerned with higher education as an issue in African development. (Professor Lamin Sanneh, Yale University) Kiluba Nkulu has put the experience of the University of Dar-es-Salaam in a historical context which illuminates its multiple significance, for both the history of African higher education and that of African decolonization. Anyone interested in these issues will do well to take the book seriously. (Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPA)
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