This article describes the challenges Sub-Saharan African women, including the author, have experienced in their pursuit of graduate studies in the United States and successful strategies that have been adopted. The author begins with a brief overview of the education of girls and women in Sub-Saharan African countries. She then explores the…

A new philosophical perspective is suggested that would transform and Africanize curricula, teaching, and learning in South African universities.

In this paper, we draw on philosophy (particularly African philosophy) to analyse the call for an African university. The call for an African university may be viewed as a call that insists that all critical and transformative educators in Africa embrace an indigenous African worldview and root their nation's educational paradigms in an indigenous…

Colin Smith's experience in South Africa and his research on the role of storytelling in the Xhosa culture met all of the guiding principles of Brigham Young University's (BYU) International Field Study Program: that students are prepared to do serious research in a topic that relates to their major, and that they will be in the host country for…

Describes the new University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, a single university that serves 3 african countries. (Author)

For Gloria Ladson-Billings, culturally relevant pedagogy is characterized by three criteria: academic success, cultural competence and critical consciousness. Those engaged in culturally relevant pedagogy are connected by how they see themselves as teachers and how they see their students, how they view knowledge and how they structure social…

For the historian whose charge is to discover those antecedents in the past which can illuminate the present, the study of African history can be highly rewarding, both intellectually and professionally. This essay is addressed to students of history whose prime area of expertise is other than Africa. (RM)

A review of three books concerning educational issues in Ghana. (RA)

Explores the possibility of seeing in Toni Morrison's novel, "Song of Solomon," the co-existence of two narratives of subjectivity. Examines the extent to which the application of a Western and non-Western narrative of subject formation yields conflicting interpretations of the novel and, in particular, the novel's ending. (SC)

In the fall of 1969, the Six Institutions' Consortium began a 3-phase program on African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum. This project is based on the continuing interest and purpose of the consortium to pool the resources and strengthen member institutions in the direction of achieving the overall quality improvement and services that they…

In the fall of 1969, the Six Institutions' Consortium began a 3-phase program on African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum. This project is based on the continuing interest and purpose of the consortium to pool the resources and strengthen member institutions in the direction of achieving the overall quality improvement and services that they…

The Conference on the Development of Higher Education in Africa was held for two specific reasons. The first was to identify possible solutions to: (1) problems of choice and adaptation of the higher education curriculum to the specific conditions of African life and development, and the training of specialized personnel for public administration…

This study, part of a larger investigation of African immigrants to the United States, focused on the issues of the African immigrants racial and ethnic identity in relation to African American counterparts and the struggle against Americanization for some of these immigrant students. Also studied were African immigrants perceptions of themselves…

An American professor reports on his visit to several African countries where he lectured on education in the U.S. (Ed.)

Considers the impact of African centered knowledge within the United Kingdom. Recent development of African Diaspora studies has forged links between various black Atlantic communities. The United Kingdom has experienced positive grassroots community response to the work of noted African centered scholars, yet within the British academy,…