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Women and Higher
Education in Africa
N'Dri Assie-Lumumba
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558 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9749723-0-5 |
Summary
Women and Higher Education in Africa: Reconceptualizing Gender-based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge is a pioneering book that provides theoretical articulation of the quest for relevant development paradigms and policy conceptualization to address effectively the urgent need for Africa collectively to appropriate the process of genuine progress. Noted scholars and policy analysts address, in 16 chapters, complex issues that are central to the relevant analysis and understanding of the interface between gender, higher education, and the production of knowledge as a means for agency, reclaiming of human rights, and a source for informed participation in social processes. They have explored the issues surrounding the basic fundamental right of women to higher education and argued the importance of women’s access to higher education if African societies and countries are to break the cycle of poverty and human misery. This is a hopeful book with authoritatively articulated and compelling arguments for the full utilization of human capabilities and the fulfillment of the African women’s rights to learning in all areas and at all levels of educational systems including higher education.
About the Author
N’Dri T. Assie-Lumumba earned her Ph D from the University of Chicago. She is currently Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University where she is a member of several graduate fields. She has served as Director of the Cornell Program on Gender and Global Change. She is Chercheur Associé CRAU at the Université de Cocody (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) and Research Affiliate of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance of the University of Houston (Houston, Texas). She is co-founder of CEPARRED. Her extensive publications include her books Les Africaines dans la politique: Femmes Baoulé de Côte d’Ivoire; Cyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy, and Knowledge Production; Higher Education in Africa: Crises, Reforms, and Transformation and the co-edited book African Voices in Education. She is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Endorsements
“This book represents an important contribution to the fields of comparative education, gender and education and higher education studies. It provides in-depth analysis of subjects that have been understudied, specifically, higher education in Africa and women in higher education, not only in Africa, but in any world region outside of the West. For this reason alone, the book is likely to be of value to education scholars in the fields listed above. Beyond the geographic and subject focus, the manuscript provides additional scholarly value through the cutting-edge theoretical contributions provided in several of its chapters.”
– Margaret Sutton, Indiana University
“I certainly believe that this book will not only add new insights and perspectives to our knowledge about women and higher education in Africa, but it will also serve to keep current dialogues and paradigms in focus. … [T]his book can make a real contribution to our knowledge and understanding of women, education and the human condition.”
– Karen Biraimah, University of Central Florida
“This is a landmark study that will change the African higher education terrain irreversibly.”
– Calestous Juma, Harvard University
"This collection of articles constitutes a remarkable theoretical contribution regarding the emblematic presence of African women in the sphere of the production and diffusion of scientific knowledge, areas in which they are the least expected. This is certainly a pioneering work on and for the Africa that is engulfed in difficulties, uncertainties, and in need for reconstruction in facing the global challenges of the contemporary world."
– Fatou Sow, Université Paris Diderot (France) / Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Sénégal)
