The University and the Dialectic of Ownership and Purpose

Uchenna Okeja; Sibongile Muthwa; André Keet

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Chapter 8 The University and the Dialectic of Ownership and Purpose

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Uchenna Okeja

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Pages:: 157–174

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677432_008

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In this chapter, we advance a conception of the connection between ownership and the purpose of the university as a dialectic. We pursue this goal against the background of the renewed interest in the role of higher learning institutions in stimulating the advancement of innovation, creativity and social transformation. We argue that a dialectical relationship defines the connection between the ownership and purpose of African universities as postcolonial commons. We propose that African universities are postcolonial commons because they are social and cultural entities that are best accounted for in terms of the contradictions that shape experiences in their context. Compared to other explanations of the connection between the ownership and purpose of the African university, our perspective, so we argue, is more productive because it takes the historical, social, political and cultural context of the university in Africa as its starting point. This is the approach that enables us to avoid and overcome the shortcomings of the imagination that ownership implies the right to unilaterally determine the purpose of the university.

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Creating the New African University

Series: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives, Volume: 16

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004677432

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 May 2023

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