Scholars in the Marketplace

The dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University 1989-2005 Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda’s Makerere University. The World Bank is heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, which has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital-friendly era.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

272

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2214-4

Publish Year:

2008

Rights:

Southern Africa Rights Only

1. The reform process: The first phase

2. Winners and losers

3. Commercialisation

4. Decentralisation

In lieu of a conclusion: Funding of a public university

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Index

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. He was previously the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Makerere University and the founding director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala. He has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Cape Town. Mamdani is a past president of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). His previous books include Citizen and Subject (recognised as ‘one of Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th century’ in Cape Town 2001 and awarded the Herskovitz Prize of the African Studies Association of USA for ‘the best book on Africa published in the English language in 1996’), When Victims Become Killers and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. He lives in New York City and Kampala.