Higher Education Transformation in Africa

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis is an Associate Professor and Director at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of Johannesburg. He is a distinguished NRF-rated researcher with a portfolio of over 30 peerreviewed academic publications, primarily focusing on higher education research. Logan Govender, prior to his appointment as a Research Associate at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of Johannesburg, he was a Senior Lecturer at AMCHES. A National Research Foundation (NRF)-rated researcher, he has several research-based, peer-reviewed publications to his credit, focusing on education policy analysis, teacher union-state relations and higher education transformation. Dennis Zami Atibuni is a Research Fellow at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include student (research) engagement; educational assessment; pre-service and in-service teacher education; student and staff mentorship; diversity, equity and inclusion and psychological determinants of effective academic leadership at higher educational institutions.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Logan Govender and Dennis Zami Atibuni

Chapter 2: South–South Inter-Epistemic Dialogue and Africanisation of African Universities: Language, Knowledge and Decolonial Impulses

Hamza R’boul

Chapter 3: The Challenge of Locally Assisted Epistemicide to African Epistemic Autonomy

Babalola Joseph Balogun

Chapter 4: Decolonising and Indigenising African Indigenous Research: Why Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being and Living Matter in Research

Monicca Thulisile Bhuda

Chapter 5: From Access to Success: Decolonising the Teaching of Academic Literacy

Brian Sibanda and Thandeka Maseko

Chapter 6: Interrogation of Decoloniality in Higher Education Curriculum Reform: Examining Influences of the Subconscious Mind

Jabulani Nyoni

Chapter 7: Decolonisation of Education in Africa: Imperatives for Fusing Indigenous Knowledge Systems

N’drie Assie-Lumumba

Chapter 8: Financial–Intellectual Complex Revisited: Framing Education Research in Africa

Joel Samoff

Chapter 9: Privatisation, Flawed Educational Assessment, and Encumbered Higher Education Access

Dennis Zami Atibuni

Chapter 10: The Resilient Epistemic Empire and Neoliberal Constructions of Higher Education and the University: A Case Study of the National University of Lesotho

Munyaradzi Mushonga

Chapter 11: Enhancing the Responsive Capacities of Ethiopian Public Universities: The

Role of Sustainable Professional Higher Education Leadership and Management Training Programmes

Yohannes Mehari, Rediet Abebe, Elias Pekkola, Jussi Kivistö and Seppo Hölttä

Chapter 12: Reimagining and Realising an Expanded Research Profile: A Case Study of Strategic Planning at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa

Kirti Menon, Saurabh Sinha, Denyse Webbstock, Nolwazi Mamorare, Letlhokwa Mpedi, Tshilidzi Marwala and Bettine van Vuuren

Chapter 13: Africa–China Engagement in Higher Education: Issues and Questions

Jane Knight and You Zhang

Chapter 14: Conclusion

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Dennis Zami Atibuni and Logan Govender

Index