The sign at the entrance to Obafemi Awolowo University proclaims this campus, renowned for its Modernist architecture and horticultural diversity, the most beautiful in Africa. A decade ago, however, ...

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for about 25 percent of all disease in the world, yet it has just three percent of the healthcare workforce. There are not enough medical and nursing schools and many of ...

Africa’s institutions of higher education are in a dire state, writes Richard Dowden, the director of the Royal African Society, in London. “Starved of funds, politicized, their lecturers mistrusted, ...

It’s not all doom and gloom for African universities – some are getting it right. Shutterstock As the start of the northern hemisphere academic year hundreds of thousands of students across Africa ...

The World Heritage Centre, in close collaboration with the UNESCO Multisectoral and Regional Office in Dakar and the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), organized a workshop entitled "World Heritage ...

Universities shouldn’t ignore graduates once they leave the institution. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Universities across Africa are sitting on – and ignoring – a ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 17 countries with best universities in Africa. If you would like to skip our discussion on the education sector in Africa, you can go to the 5 Countries ...

After a hitman tried to assassinate the vice-chancellor of Fort Hare University but ended up gunning down the academic’s bodyguard, in January 2023, South Africa’s police abducted and tortured a union ...

An assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University in New Jersey, Dieng leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.