This study analyzes the transformation of Kenyas
public universities through marketization and
privatization by focusing on one university in
transition. It identifies the strategies used to
achieve marketization and privatization, and the
attendant anxiety generated. Both external and
internal factors catalyzed the transformation.
Marketization strategies included the corporatization
of university management through the
de-politicization of the university chancellorship,
competitive recruitment of the vice-chancellor,
administrative reconfigurations, registration of
unions and...

A refreshing interdisciplinary study of contemporary Africa focusing on teaching African studies and an analysis of political, economic, socio-cultural, higher education, geography, managerial and scientific developments. It is written by African scholars resident both in the USA and Africa.

This title fills the void in research and academic knowledge about the emerging university configurations in Africa. It analyses the paradox surrounding the performance of multi-campus university systems, avenues of broadening university access but whose structural success may be qualitatively contested.