The Third Higher Education Forum for Africa, Asia and Latin America (HEFAALA III) Symposium under a theme “Academic Collaboration in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the Post-COVID World” will take place with the 20 th International Conference on Private Higher Education in Africa under a theme “Embracing New Realities and Paradigms: Africa’s Higher Education Response” will be taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 27 and 28 April 2022. For more info click here .
Damtew Teferra is Professor of Higher Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Founding Director of the International Network for Higher Education in Africa. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of African Higher Education. Teferra steers the Higher Education Cluster of the Africa Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA). He may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] .
In 2017 the United States president, Donald Trump, declared: “There is no global flag, no global currency, no global citizenship.” Earlier, in 2016, the former United Kingdom prime minister, Theresa May, exclaimed: “If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.” These open and hostile statements have had a chilling effect on the essence, spirit and praxis of higher education internationalisation as manifested in its multiple forms. Read More