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"The University of the Village": The University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Making of Post-Independence Nigeria
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Russell Wade Stevenson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation examines the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN, the first indigenous university in Nigeria and the first land grant university in Africa. This dissertation argues that UNN represented an innovative experiment in African higher education by expanding higher education to the general populace rather than the colonially privileged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Colonialism