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Given our previous discussions, it is clear that an African university is continuously shaped by debates such as democratic citizenship, transformation, internationalisation, neoliberal or market forces, globalisation as well as glocalisation. These debates insinuate a number of issues, among them, the comparative nature of education. The urgent quest to attend to comparative education arises in that the university has become a connected space—in a country, a region and a global space, all at the same time. The connected space the African university finds itself in necessitates the need for the transformation of the university for it to remain relevant locally as well as globally. In other words, in a comparative education logic, an African university needs to advance its roles and knowledge interests of both a local and global perspective in resolving matters of public concern that could lead to the transformation and decolonisation of the university.
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Waghid, Y., Terblanche, J., Shawa, L.B., Hungwe, J.P., Waghid, F., Waghid, Z. (2023). An African University and Claims of Democratic Citizenship Education. In: Towards an Ubuntu University. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06454-8_8
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