African higher education is currently facing tremendous challenges. The pressure and demand for access is huge. This is understandable against the background of traditionally low participation, low success and throughput rates, declining financial contributions from governments and donors, and critical pressures for efficiency, modernization,…

This study of 416 African Education Research (AER) projects was conducted to: (a) provide information on current studies by Africans on African education; (b) provide a framework for critical analysis of research based on a classification of the issues; and (c) provide a listing and discussion of continuing research resources which would aid…

This article raises existential questions about the African University. In search of an identity of the African University, the article surveys and re-affirms a descriptive definition of the African University. Furthermore, it surveys contextual challenges of internationalization that should be peculiar to the African University and uses them to…