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‘Neither the African governments nor anyone else can be satisfied with the present performance of the universities on the continent. If quantitatively speaking the results are not bad, as soon as one tackles the question of all the content of education, the quality of education and, above all, the problem of the distribution of students among various faculties, the picture looks completely different.’
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At present working at the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Africa. Author of Le Damagaram ou Sultanat de Zinder au xixe Siècle, Tanimoune, Kaoussan ou la Révolte Sénoussiteand many articles on the history of central Sudan and on oral traditions.
We shall confine our remarks to French-speaking Africa and, to be more precise, to West Africa. But it is obvious that many of the problems we shall raise apply to almost all of the dark continent, and also to other developing countries throughout the world.
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Salifou, A. On refusing the Balkanization of the African university. Prospects 4, 471–479 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02217363
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02217363