
Today, as ever, Africa desperately needs its universities. As the pace of technological and social change speeds up, the challenges of knowing ourselves as African people continue to change subtly. Where are the peoples of Africa in world development? What role can our cash-strapped universities play in Africa’s fate and future? How do we make sense of global politics and power struggles? Are we at the dawn of a new age of oil-based imperialism, or trapped in a continuing saga of vicious exploitation? What are the implications of the global spread of militarism and religious fundamentalism for Africa, for the women of Africa? Do indigenous knowledges, and indigenous crops and seeds of Africa, hold promise for the future? How can we withstand the consequences of global economic doctrines? What must we do to take advantage of contemporary political democratization processes, or the related opportunities for cultural change? These and many more questions face Africa’s corps of comparatively underpaid and definitely overworked – but tenacious – academics, demanding new levels of resilience, tenacity and dedication.
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Editorial
Editorial
- Teresa Barnes and Amina Mama
Features
Politics of the mind and body: gender and institutional culture in African Universities
- by Teresa Barnes
Gender, Institutional Cultures and the Career Trajectories of Faculty of the University of Ghana
- by Dzodzi Tsikata
"What can a woman do?" Being women in Nigerian university
- by Abiola Odejide
Alienation, Gender and Institutional Culture at the University of Zimbabwe
- by Rudo B.Gaidzanwa
"Gender is Over": Researching the Implementation of Sexual Harassement Policies in Southern African Higher Education
- by Jane Bennett, Amanda Gouws, Andreinetta Kritzinger, Mary Hames, Chris Tidimane
Profiles
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Counselling Initiative
- by Edith Okiria
Medicine and Activism: Institutionalising Medical Care and Compassion for Rape Survivors
- by Simidele Dosekun
In Conversation
Women's Leadership is Key: Fay Chung speaks with Teresa Barnes
Reviews
Women's Organisations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Shireen Hassim. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
- reviewed by Lauren Van Vuuren
Student Power in Africa's Higher Education: The Case of Makerere University. Frederick K. Byaruhanga. New York and London: Routledge, 2006
- reviewed by Mlungisi Gabriel Cele