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
Fills the chasm in today's literature regarding the history of African higher education as examined from a non-Eurocentrist perspective.
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.
Lulat has compiled a great amount of information on African higher
education (interpreted in the broadest sense) across history. The
result is an encyclopedic compendium of data that complements for
the contemporary period editors Damtew Teferra and Philip Altbach's
African Higher Education (2003) and for the colonial period Eric
Ashby's Universities: British, Indian, African (CH, Dec'67). The
author is sensitive to and knowledgeable about Africa's cultural
diversity, and critically engages with the historiography and
politics of education in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial
eras. He presents useful summaries of the history of and issues
surrounding important African educational institutions, and devotes
considerable attention to Islamic (100 pages) and Anglophone (124
pages) regions and the premodern period (66 pages)….[t]here are few
other works of such breadth. Recommended. General and undergraduate
readers.
*Choice*
Lulat's purpose is not to find ways of overcoming what he calls the
current awful predicament of African universities. Rather, he
wishes to correct the errors of other writers, particularly those
whom he sees as Eurocentric.
*Minerva Journal*
In this topically comprehensive and analytically dense work,
Lulat….produces an important and timely work of over 600 pages, a
work achieving an inclusive and critical perspective on the history
of African higher education….[t]his is a well-researched and
excellent work in the historical and actual locations of African
higher education; it should be widely read and could become a
primary reference for researchers, students, and others who are
interested in this increasingly important area of study.
*Comparative Education Review*
Lulat's work fills an important gap by providing the first
comprehensive overview of the subject, beginning with Pharaonic
Egypt and Axum in premodern Africa and continuing through to the
early twenty-first century. Contained within this thick (529 pages
of text) and expensive volume is a wealth of valuable information
and analysis that will serve as a guide and reference for all
future studies….[L]ulat deserves the highest praise for his
meticulously researched, comprehensive survey of African higher
education over five millennia and across the entire continent.
*American Historical Review*
[O]nly the second full-length, unified, continent-wide historical
survey of African higher education. His account differs from the
other, Ashby (1996), by a longer temporal and wider geographical
scope, by being critical rather than an apology for British
colonial policies, and by placing the history of universities in
Africa in a global context.
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