TY - BOOK AU - Nico Cloete AU - Peter Maassen AU - Tracy Bailey AB - This volume brings together excellent scholarship and innovative policy discussion to demonstrate the essential role of higher education in the development of Africa and of the world at large. Based on deep knowledge of the university system in several African countries, this book will reshape the debate on development in the global information economy for years to come. It should be mandatory reading for academics, policy-makers and concerned citizens, in Africa and elsewhere.” – Manuel Castells, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, Laureate of the Holberg Prize 2012 and of the Balzan Prize 2013 ID - OAPEN ID: 16859 KW - university KW - Africa KW - higher education KW - research KW - knowledge L1 - http://www.africanminds.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/9781920677855_txt1.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51128 PB - African Minds PB - African Minds Publishers PY - 2015 SN - 9781920677855 TI - Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Educationnull ER -