Sharing intellectual resources in service of higher education

Africa’s academic diaspora can work alongside their peers from higher education institutions in their homelands to build stronger, vibrant research communities and generate new knowledge. Successful and mutually beneficial projects involving researchers and teachers on various continents show that much can be achieved through these collaborative efforts.

NORTH AMERICA-AFRICA

Creating vibrant and stronger research communities

UWN reporter

AFRICA-NORTH AMERICA

Tin by tin: Promoting African research and scholarship

Wakiuru Wamwara

AFRICA-NORTH AMERICA

Building inclusive and diverse knowledge societies

Margaret Khaitsa and John Kaneene

AFRICA-NORTH AMERICA

Maths project enables mutually beneficial collaboration

Nkechi Agwu

A project that has received global acclaim for bringing the indigenous mathematical knowledge systems of Nigerian ethnic nationalities and the stories of successful Nigerian women in science to the forefront, illustrates the power of mutually beneficial collaboration between the academic diaspora and their counterparts in Africa.

AFRICA-NORTH AMERICA

Creating an environment for intellectual capital remittance

mutindi ndunda and Faith Maina

African diaspora scholars – individuals born, raised and educated in Africa and who now work in foreign universities – have knowledge and skills to contribute through collaborative engagements with African universities, but all stakeholders have the responsibility to devise systematic methods to attract the human capital in a manner that is sustainable and impactful.

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