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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Y. G-M. Lulat. A History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present. (Studies in Higher Education.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2005. Pp. xii, 624. $129.95.
As Y. G-M. Lulat rightly observes in his preface, there are an amazing number of lacunae in Africana studies. In the field of African higher education, Lulat's work fills an important gap by providing the first comprehensive overview of the subject, beginning with Pharaonic Egypt and Axum in "premodern Africa" and continuing through to the early twenty-first century. Contained within this thick (539 pages of text) and expensive volume is a wealth of valuable information and analysis that will serve as a guide and reference for all future studies.	1
Lulat has organized his work into eight chapters and three appendixes. Following a long introduction and the premodern chapter, he discusses Afro-Arab Islamic Africa; anglophone Africa generally; anglophone Africa focused on Ethiopia, Liberia, and South Africa; and europhone Africa, or the former French, Portuguese, Belgian, and Italian colonies. There is no reference to education in former German colonies, although this has received increasing attention of late. Lulat concludes with a long discussion in chapters seven and eight of the role of foreign aid and a reflection on the colonial legacy and beyond. The first two of his three appendixes are essays on "An Exploration into the Provenance of the Modern African University," and "The Historical Antecedents of the Disjuncture between Premodern and Modern African Higher Education." The third appendix is simply a list of colonial empires in Africa. There is a short glossary and an extensive bibliography.	. . .

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