Higher Education in Africa: A Complex but Hardly Researched Enterprise

Authors

  • Nelson Casimiro Zavale Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

Keywords:

Africa, African higher education, research on African higher education

Abstract

As elsewhere, higher education (HE) in Africa has become a complex enterprise, yet is hardly researched. This article presents the main findings of a systematic review of literature focusing on African HE and published from 1980 to 2019, and suggests that the transformation of African HE was not accompanied by an equivalent production of research focusing on it, which is crucial to make its features and developments intelligible and guide policy makers and practitioners.

Author Biography

Nelson Casimiro Zavale, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

Nelson Casimiro Zavale is associate professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique, a former Humboldt Research Fellow at INCHERUniversity, Kassel, Germany, and a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, US. Email: nelson.casimiro.zavale@gmail.com.

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Published

2022-07-11

How to Cite

Zavale, N. . (2022). Higher Education in Africa: A Complex but Hardly Researched Enterprise. International Higher Education, (111), 21–23. Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/15335

Issue

No. 111 (2022): Summer Issue

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Articles

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