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Africa-to-Africa: A Responsible Alternative to Study Abroad for 21st-century African Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

Mohamed Saliou Camara
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African scholars and activists often suggest that study-abroad programs to Africa be transformed to include an Africa-to-Africa exchange component. Their argument often includes discussion of the possibility that conventional study-abroad programs might perpetuate a colonial relationship between rich nations and those of the African continent rather that developing new relationships among African citizen diplomats. The following is an excellent overview of this debate.

Type
The Meaning of Study Abroad in African Studies
Information
African Issues , Volume 28 , Issue 1-2 , 2000 , pp. 61 - 64
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2000 

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Notes

1. June Milne, Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years: His Life and Letters (1990).

2. Watson, Keith, “Colonialism and Educational Development,” in The Third World, ed. Watson, K. (London: Croom Helm, 1982), 2 Google Scholar.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Geeto is one of Guinea’s celebrated comedians, whose themes range from broken marriages to alcoholism, from religious hypocrisy to political acrobatics. His entertaining stories in the Fulani language are audiotaped and abundantly sold in Guinea.

6. Touré, Ahmed Sékou, Des Etats-Unis d’Afrique, vol. 25 (Conakry: Imprimerie Nationale, Patrice Lumumba, 1980)Google Scholar.

8. Apart from their widely known publications, these three African scholars kindly granted me interviews during the celebration in Dakar of the 15th anniversary of Radio France Internationale’s “Mémoire d’un Continent” in 1985. Those interviews were broadcast in “Tribune de l’Histoire” by the Radio Television Network of Guinea.

9. Marah, John Karefah, Pan-African Education: The Last Stage of Educational Developments in Africa (Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), ix.Google Scholar

10. Ibid., xi.

11. Mbodi Kingué, L’Afrique “francophone” face à ses étudiants-travailleurs en Europe (1976), 4-6. English translation by Mohamed Saliou Camara.

13. Kodjo, Edem, Africa Tomorrow (New York, US: Continuum Publishing, 1987), 183 Google Scholar.

14. Ibid.,196.

15. Ibid.