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  • The Decolonization of African Knowledges 
    Zeleza, Paul T (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa., 2017)
    It is truly a pleasure being back at your lovely university ten years after I was invited to give the keynote address at the Colloquium marking the Opening of your Centre for African Studies. A lot has happened in the last ...
  • The Challenges of The Fourth Industrial Revolution for African Universities 
    Zeleza, Paul T (Universities South Africa, First National Higher Education Conference,, 2019-10)
    Like many of you, I try to keep up with trends in higher education, which are of course firmly latched to wider transformations in the global political economy, in all its bewildering complexities and contradictions, and ...
  • Rethinking the Value Proposition of University Education: The Challenge of Employability 
    Zeleza, Paul T (International Conference on Higher Education,, 2018-06)
    The Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Bright Msaka; the Secretary for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Justin Saidi; Chairperson of the Main Organizing Committee, Mr. Mvalo, and the Committee Secretary ...
  • Posititioning Universities as Engines of Innovation for Sustainable Development and Transformation 
    Zeleza, Paul T (Biennial Conference, 2018-10)
    Let me begin by thanking CUE and its CEO, Professor Mwenda Ntarangwi, for the singular privilege and honor of inviting me to give this keynote address. I gladly accepted the invitation because the theme of the conference, ...
  • Higher Education and Africa’s Development Agenda 
    Zeleza, Paul T (Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, 2016-09)
    Professor Issa Shivji, Director of the Nyerere Resource Center, Mr Joseph Sinde Warioba, former Prime Minister, Mr Mohamed Bilal former Vice-President, distinguished guests, colleagues, thank you for the singular honor of ...
  • Enhancing Demand Driven Digital and Technological Skills Development 
    Okanda, Paul; Zeleza, Paul T (African Economic Conference, 2019-12)
    The concept note for this conference focuses on one of the pressing challenges facing African states, economies, and societies: the need to create jobs for Africa’s bulging youth populations, enhance their entrepreneurial ...
  • Africa, Internationalization and the Global Context: Making it Work 
    Zeleza, Paul T (ANIE Conference, 2019-10)
    I argue in my most recent book, The Transformation of Global Higher Education: 1945-2015, “As might be expected, views differ widely on the forces that drive internationalization, the activities that constitute it, the ...
  • Africa’s Persistent Struggles for Development and Democracy in a Multipolar World 
    Zeleza, Paul T (International Conference on Business and Economics, 2018-10)
    I would like to begin by thanking the Vice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies, and other leaders of the University of Dhaka for inviting me to this conference, and my good friend and former colleague at ...
  • Achieving and Sustaining High-Levels of E-readiness 
    Zeleza, Paul T (KENET, 2018-12)
    On behalf of the Board of Trustees and Management of KENET, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this year’s Heads of Institutions Annual Meeting. This marks the 10th Anniversary of this flagship conference for ...
  • Development of a Risk Monitoring Microservices for Improving Import Inspection - A Case of Kenya Bureau of Standards 
    Nyakundi, Duncan (United States International University - Africa, 2019)
    Most organizations in private and public sector take a risk-based approach to mitigate any business venture also leveraging on customer satisfaction aligned with quality and keeping costs at bay. The purpose of this study ...
  • Civil Wars and Failed Peace Agreements in South Sudan: Yet Another Lost Generation to Build a Peaceful Society 
    Ahmed Ali, Fatuma (The Horn Bulletin, 2019)
    South Sudan, the newest African state, is entangled in a complex political and humanitarian emergencies since the civil war broke out in Juba in December 2013. This has seen massive destruction of property, thousands of ...
  • HIV & AIDS: Counseling Guide for Religious Leaders 
    Lucy W. Kungu; Sheikh Yusuf Nasur; Maryanne Mwangi; Esther Kieya; Dr. Lucas Otwera; Fr. Joseph Mutie; Bishop Osham Ominde; Imelda Namayi; Roseline Warutere; Patricia K. Macharia; Aziza Gulam; Fr. Francis Maina; Dr. Bethseba Osoro; Christine Njogu; Eddy Mungoni; Fr. Lucas Manwa; Rev. Jane Ng'ang'a; Bishop James Okombo; Sara Mellilo; Nicholas Musembi; Rose Koki Mutuku; Ann Mwebia; Rev. Jason Kabera; Rev. Connie Kivuti; Dr. Samuel Mwenda; Dr. Mugo Godwin; Tabitha Rono; Bramwel Siku; Dr. Charity Waithima; Nkatha Njeru; Mike Mugweru (Africa Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP), 2019)
    Counseling in the context of HIV and AIDS care is a combination of information exchange, skill acquisition and emotional support as the counselor interacts with the person infected with HIV (the client) and ...
  • End of Empire: Hegemonic shifts in global power 
    Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe (The Elephant, 2018)
    Over the past two weeks, the world’s media has been transfixed by two images that would have been unthinkable until recently: the image of an American president at war with his G7 allies and another one showing him basking ...
  • The Giant Challenge of Higher Education in Africa 
    Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe (The Elephant, 2018)
    Over the past two decades African higher education has undergone profound changes. In the 1960s and 1970s, universities on the continent were few in number, small in scale, and elitist institutions with the limited mandate ...
  • Arbres a la Serra: la servera (Sorbus domestica) 
    Gijon, Pablo Rubio (Societat d’Amics de la Serra d’Espadà, 2019)
  • Grandes maestros de la Literatura y de la Pintura espa'olas desde el Siglo de Oro hasta el siglo XX 
    Ferretti, Santa; Gijon, Pablo Rubio (Carla Rossi Academy Press, 2018)
    Las necesidades actuales de profesores y estudiantes de la Literatura Espa�ola y de la Historia del Arte, de las m�s diversas nacionalidades impulsan � si tenemos en cuenta la disminuci�n de horas del horario de las ...
  • The Original Sin: Slavery, America and the Modern World 
    Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe (The Elephant, 2019)
    The landing of a slave ship in Virginia four hundred years ago changed not just the fortunes of slave owners in America, but also transformed the modern world. In this essay, the historian TIYAMBE ZELEZA examines the ...
  • John ya-Otto's Battlefront Namibia: a Namibian political autobiography 
    Gijon, Pablo Rubio (Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2019)
    During the 1960's as conflict between Namibian rebels and South African forces increased and the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded, a kind of political-autobiographical literature appeared in ...
  • Exploring Feminine Political Leadership Attributes and Women's Campaigns During the 2017 General Election in Kenya 
    Canudo, Maria Arnal; Ali, Fatuma Ahmed (Twaweza Communications Ltd., 2018)
    Despite the fact that women are almost half of the population of the world, they are under-represented in political leadership across the world. Only 20% of parliamentarians were women in 2011 and only one country in the ...
  • Jobs, Skills and Industry 4.0: Rethinking the Value Proposition of University Education 
    Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe (The Elephant, 2018)
    In my last feature, I wrote on the six capacity challenges facing African universities: institutional supply, resources, faculty, research, outputs, and leadership. In this essay, I focus on one critical aspect of the ...

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