dc.contributor.author	Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-20T14:33:23Z	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-20T16:38:32Z
dc.date.available	2011-09-20T14:33:23Z	eng
dc.date.available	2011-09-20T16:38:32Z
dc.date.issued	2011	eng
dc.description	Series: African Missing Voices; 9	eng
dc.description.abstract	Access to university education in Africa was inadequate during the colonial period. With independence, various African countries moved away from the elitist colonial education system by embarking on programs designed to provide education to all, regardless of class, ethnicity, or creed. Nowhere in Africa has the question of access to university education reached such a crescendo of concern and posed such as challenge to the polity as in Nigeria. In illuminating the history of massification of university education in Nigeria, Anyanwu makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the challenges of nation-building in multi-ethnic and religious societies in Africa and demonstrates that the intractable issues in Africa's university education system - such as academic quality, relevance, funding, and unemployment - flow from the creation and adoption of the massification system. Through analysis of exceptionally rich data obtained from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, and from Nigeria’s national archives, author Ogechi Anyanwu demonstrates how the pursuit of mass university education not only decolonized the elitist British education system but also ultimately reshaped modern Nigeria. More importantly, he argues that the impact of these policies cannot be fully understood withoutlooking closely at the intersection of domestic and external politics dictating the direction of higher education development as a vehicle for nation-building in Nigeria’s pluralistic society. Although numerous studies have been made of Nigeria’s higher education development in particular, and that of Africa in general, no work has placed the pursuit of mass university education at the centre of that country’s postcolonial higher education reform or discussed it as a policy-driven and need-driven phenomenon. In The Politics of Access, Anyanwu undertakes a historical analysis of the diachronic impact of Nigeria’s domestic socioeconomic, political, and ethno-religious forces, as well as external interests, on the country’s policy initiatives, shifts, and outcomes of mass higher education policies.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel, "The politics of access: university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000". Series: Africa: missing voices series 9, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2011.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34581
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-519-7	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48740
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	*
dc.subject	Education, Higher—Nigeria—History—20th century	eng
dc.subject	Higher education and state—Nigeria	eng
dc.subject	Education, Higher—Nigeria—Political aspects	eng
dc.subject	Nation-building—Nigeria	eng
dc.subject	Economic development—Nigeria	eng
dc.title	The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948–2000	eng
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