Full Description
Creating the New African University grapples with the existence of African universities, particularly in post-independent Africa, where Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are supposed to live up to the expectations of being adaptive in dealing with prevalent complex, dynamic contemporary and future challenges facing African societies. The book tackles the issue of what ought to be done for African universities to maintain a structure and identity that ensures their relevance in Africa's development through generating and transforming knowledge into actions for the common good. It engages issues within the context of how post-colonial transformative obligations have been managed in light of the prevalent epistemological and pedagogical underpinnings that form the foundations of these universities as they seek to break from the clutches of colonial legacies.
This book further highlights an urgent need to do away with silos and embrace a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary dialogical approach towards knowledge generation. Such an approach is essential in efforts aimed at enhancing the sustainable reconfiguration of university structures and functions whilst linking knowledge produced to diverse social, economic and political facets of African societies in ways that promote and sustain competitiveness in a rapidly globalising world beset with technological advancements.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Shireen Motala, Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Phefumula Nyoni
2 Re-envisioning Universities in Africa as African Universities
Saleem Badat
3 Changes and Continuity in the Roles and Functions of Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
4 Congruences between Decolonial Thinking and Change within the Western Paradigm of Higher Education
Chris Brink
5 Decolonisation, Post-Humanism and Justice with-in Higher Education
Yusef Waghid
6 Decolonisation, Trans-Colonisation and Development: The Challenges of Changing Epistemic Concerns and Indigenous Knowledge Production in Africa
Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
7 What I Mean by Pan-African Education and Its Implications for African People in Our Global Village
John Karefah Marah
8 The University and the Dialectic of Ownership and Purpose
Uchenna Okeja, Sibongile Muthwa and André Keet
9 Emergent Priorities of the New African University
Crain Soudien
10 Placing Knowledge at the Centre of an Alternative Public Good Imaginary of African Universities
Aslam Fataar
11 Designing a Transdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in African Universities
Abdul Razak Esakjee and Saurabh Sinha
12 Student Funding (In)equity in South African Higher Education: Fuelling or Failing Futures?
Mukovhe Masutha and Shireen Motala
13 African Higher Education Programme and Provider Mobility Partnerships
Jane Knight
13 Conclusion
Shireen Motala, Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Phefumula Nyoni
Index
