TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macharia, Keguro
TI  - African universities crippling their students
PY  - 0000///December 292008///-January 4 2009
CY  - Nairobi
PB  - Nation Media Group
KW  - African Universities
KW  - brain drain
N2  - An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education points out that African universities face crisis in hiring and retaining new PhD holders, many of whom chose to go into industry or NGOs.
Kenya's knowledge economy thrives and flourishes on matatu graffiti, on street corners and community based theatre productions.Kenyan academics must learn how to speak to their colleagues across Africa, in Europe and the Americas. We cannot continue to rely on that old, tired ''I'm an African'' bit in international conferences to disengage from the tough conceptual demands being placed on them.
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