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Title Youth and higher education in Africa : the cases of Cameroon, South Africa, Eritrea and Zimbabwe / edited by Donald P. Chimanikire
Published Dakar : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 139 pages)
Series Codesria book series
Codesria book series.
Contents pt 1. Cameroon -- pt. 2. South Africa -- pt. 3. Zimbabwe -- pt. 4. Eritrea
Summary "Student activism in Africa, at least since the early 1990s, has been preoccupied with popular struggles for democracy in both their respective countries and institutions of higher learning. The changing socio-economic and political conditions in many African countries, characterized by the decline in economic growth and the introduction of multi-party politics, among several other factors, have had different impact on students and student political organizations in African universities. This book recounts the responses of students to these changes in their attempt to negotiate better living and studying conditions. The four case studies contained in the book - Cameroon, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eritrea - clearly reveal the very important aspects of the situation in which African students find themselves in many countries, and underscores the need to understand the character and development of higher education on the continent. Ministries of Higher Education, Vice Chancellors, Deans of Students, Student Unions and parents will find this book very useful in terms of understanding the tensions that often arise at institutions of higher learning and why solutions seem to be elusive"--African Books Collective website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Education -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Youth -- Africa
Student movements -- Africa -- Case studies
Social sciences.
social sciences.
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
EDUCATION -- History.
Education
Social sciences
Student movements
Youth
Africa
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Chimanikire, Donald P.
Codesria
ISBN 9782869782952
2869782950
9782869784253
2869784252