Abstract
In this book, Bhekithemba Mngomezulu offers a useful historiography of higher education in East Africa. He discusses the role played by politics in colonial Britain and in the East African colonies, and the involvement of missionary and American philanthropic organisations in the development of higher education in Africa, specifically in East Africa. The specific focus of the book is the rise and fall of the University of East Africa (UEA). It is this distinct focus on the UEA that distinguishes the book from earlier historical accounts of higher education in Africa such as Ashby's African Universities and Western Traditions (1964), Ajayi, Goma and Johnson's The African Experience with Higher Education (1996) and Lulat's A History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present: A Critical Synthesis (2005).
Highlights
In this book, Bhekithemba Mngomezulu offers a useful historiography of higher education in East Africa
The chapter illustrates that – while the demand for higher education by African constituencies was inseparable from the struggle for uhuru and the promotion of nationalism and pan-Africanism – for colonial authorities, missionaries and philanthropic organisations, the drivers for higher education in colonial Africa ranged from evangelism, colonial control, acculturation and, towards the end of colonial rule, the production of elites to whom the colonial authorities would ‘handover the responsibility for administration, the technical services and for taking of political decisions’ (p.9)
Part II (Chapters 2–4) explores the process of establishing the University of East Africa (UEA) from the early 1920s to 1963, located within the broader context of British imperial policy, and the roles played by the British government in London, British governors in East Africa and East African politicians and academics in the establishment of the UEA
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Bhekithemba Mngomezulu offers a useful historiography of higher education in East Africa. BOOK TITLE: Politics and higher education in East Africa: From the 1920s to 1970
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