UNRISD Director Thandika Mkandawire is the editor of this thought-provoking overview of the history, fate and possible future roles of African intellectuals both within Africa and in the African Diaspora nearly half a ...

As the twenty first century unfolds, African universities are undergoing change and confronting challenges which are unprecedented. The effects of globalisation, and political and economic pressures of liberalisation and ...

Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa refer to a zone of countries stretching from Eritrea and Djibouti in the north to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and Sudan in the west, Tanzania in the south and fragmented Somalia and ...

This study investigates the extent to which the cell phone technology has impacted on the lives of young Kenyans, especially within the context of a university in Kenya. Kenya has had a tremendous technological leap from ...

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations ...

This book highlights the current business practices in the emerging markets of China, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria and UAE, and explains how forces of global competition have set the culture of competitiveness and an era ...