Academics in both the industrial world and developing countries face funding declines, growing state intervention, public hostility, and corporate pressure. Simultaneously, they are experiencing internal wars over policy, ...

The purpose of the current work was to investigate whether word type moderates the learning of vocabulary words in a new language. English-speaking monolinguals were trained on a matched set of concrete (e.g., jewel), ...

The last 10 years have brought unexpected shifts in global power relationships as traditionally powerful states have lost legitimacy and ceded authority to new players. The power of the United States and United Kingdom ...

The literature on international migration is dominated by economic and political perspectives. This paper begins with the culturalist readings to remind ourselves that there is more to international migration than the ...

This essay commemorates the large historical lives of Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela, both of whom died in 2013. It is noted that the nature of African and world reactions to the deaths of the two men undoubtedly reflected ...

Because of the focus on the impact of “brain drain,” discussions centered on the African academic diaspora often fail to highlight the expansive and innovative relationships between institutions of higher education across ...

This article interrogates the development of African diaspora studies. Based a global research project that seeks to map out the dispersals of African peoples in all the major regions of the world, compare the processes ...

Every so often African leaders and thinkers rediscover and reaffirm a future invoked by all sorts of names of hope and redemption: the African revolution, reawakening, reconstruction, rebirth, regeneration, renewal, ...

2011 will be remembered as a momentous year in North Africa when the sclerotic dictatorships of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya collapsed. Until then, the region seemed implacably immune to the democratic wave that began ...