1st Edition

Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education Aid-Driven Research Co-operation in the Name of Economic Development

By Nelson Masanche Nkhoma Copyright 2026
246 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education explores the emergent and dynamic global model of the aid-driven, research-intensive African university as a potential panacea for national and economic development in rapidly shifting contexts. Anchored in the concept of knowledge diplomacy, the book interrogates the logics and practices that shape development agencies’ interventions, revealing... Read more

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.