The African experience with higher education / J.F. Ade Ajayi, Lameck Goma, G. Ampah Johnson ; with a contribution by Wanjiku Mwotia.

Includes bibliography (pages263-272) and index.

Ch. 1. Antecedents, Before 1900 -- Ch. 2. Colonialism and Higher Education -- Ch. 3. Decolonization and Higher Education, 1945-1960 -- Ch. 4. The Politics of Independence and Higher Education 1960-70 -- Ch. 5. The Association of African Universities -- Ch. 6. Higher Education and African Development, 1970s and 1980s -- Ch. 7. The Problems of the 1990s -- Ch. 8. Special Issues -- Ch. 9. The Mission of the University Reviewed -- Ch. 10. New Expectations and Reorientations -- Ch. 11. The Outreach -- App. I. Handbook on Academic Freedom and University Autonomy -- App. II. Code of Conduct for Academics.

There have been institutions of higher learning for centuries in Africa but the phenomenal growth has taken place in the last fifty years, first in the later days of colonialism and then in the heady days of independence and commodity boom. Without them there would have been no development.

The three highly distinguished authors have written the first comprehensive assessment of universities and higher education in Africa south of the Sahara. As can be seen from their biographies they draw on experience from both francophone and anglophone Africa and from teaching both in the sciences and the arts.