1st Edition
Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education Aid-Driven Research Co-operation in the Name of Economic Development
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Author
Foreword by Jonathan D. Jansen
Acknowledgements
PART I Knowledge Diplomacy as Aid
1 Higher Education, International Aid and the Emergent Knowledge Economy in Africa
2 Uncertainty of Knowledge Diplomacy and Knowledge Economy
3 Diachronic, Divergence and Dynamism in Higher Education Analysis
4 Researching Aid-Driven Bilateral Collaborations in African Universities
PART II Knowledge Diplomacy: Discourse and Practice
5 Knowledge Diplomacy and Research Intensity in Ethiopia
6 Aid-Driven Bilateral Research Co-operation: Sida and Emergent Research University in Tanzania
7 An Emergent Global Model of Research-Intensive University in Mozambique
8 Multi-Funded Aid-Driven Research Practice in Malawi
PART III Knowledge Diplomacy in the Emergent Spotlight
9 Sida: Reinventing International Aid, Knowledge Diplomacy and Universities
10 Emergent University Model of Knowledge Diplomacy
Appendix
Index
Biography
Nelson Masanche Nkhoma is an affiliate fellow in the Institute for Post-School Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He currently works as an Open Distance and e-Learning Specialist at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi.
‘This book makes a significant contribution to studies of internationalization in higher education and science diplomacy by centering African universities as active, reflective participants in global knowledge systems. Its concept of knowledge diplomacy offers scholars, policymakers, and practitioners a nuanced framework for understanding how cooperation, power, and possibility intersect in international academic engagement. At a moment when global challenges demand more equitable and reflexive forms of knowledge production, this work stands as both a critical diagnosis and an invitation, to rethink internationalization not merely as global integration, but as a deeply political and ethical project.’
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Former Vice Chancellor, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
