Institutions, including universities, have internal and external lives that are mutually constitutive. Institutional cultures reflect and reproduce prevailing and intertwined national and global contexts, challenges, and...
Every university is unique and similar to other universities in its own way. This is especially evident in the types of challenges and crises it faces...
Decoloniality in Kenya may be permitted in Kenyan universities if the Kenya government receives a grant to promote it, or if the British Council or other...
In relation to their knowledge production, African universities should acknowledge the importance of producing research in support of development, while retaining their liberal education focus, he...
Change is inevitable in the lives of nations, institutions, and individuals, but it is not easy because of entrenched mindsets, habits, and behaviors. USIU-Africa was no...
Life and reality, in and of themselves, are already interdisciplinary. There is therefore need to heal Kenyan higher education so that it reflects life itself. Universities...
This is the first of a ten-part series of reflections on various aspects of my experiences over six years as Vice Chancellor of USIU-Africa that will...
For the developed countries higher education internationalization is part of their arsenal of global soft power, while the developing countries value it for its potential to...
The massive disruptions wrought by COVID-19 present an opportunity for a fundamental transformation of Africa’s higher education.
African universities must transform higher education. At stake is the future of the African continent and humanity itself, as much of this humanity becomes increasingly African.
If we divorce training for the workplace from university education, universities can return to being sites of knowledge that are open to the public and that...
The financing of higher education is becoming an issue of grave concern to policymakers. How can universities provide high-quality education and student support in an era...
