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The African Crisis in Context: Comparative Encounters with Educational Rationalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Dominic Boyer
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African Studies Review , Volume 45 , Issue 2: African Universities in Crisis and the Promotion of a Democratic Culture , September 2002 , pp. 205 - 218
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