...Ebenezer Obadare Once highly regarded as centers of excellence, Nigerian universities now uniformly occupy the basement of most global university rankings. At the same time, the nation’s academia is all but shorn of the social prestige that previously attached to it. This essay argues that neither...

...Hlonipha Mokoena In South Africa, where the current movement to decolonize universities and cultural institutions has drawn international attention, its arguments often clash with the historical realities of apartheid. [email protected] Against Decolonisation: Taking African...

...Daniele Cantini Universities played a central role in Egypt’s 2011 revolution and were heavily affected by the subsequent return to military rule. Egyptian universities have a long history as settings where young activists engage in political action. Today they are institutions with a changing role...

... War, even though the late twentieth century, especially the 1970s, was one of the country’s most dynamic eras of change, particularly urbanization. During this period, as unauthorized shacks ( gecekondus ) built overnight by migrants covered the urban landscape, major public universities...