Posts

Showing posts from August, 2015

Globalization and the Political Economy of Higher Education in Nigeria

Globalization and the Political Economy of Higher Education in Nigeria THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, 65 TH INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH DISCOURSE PAPER, UI CONFERENCE CENTER, AUGUST 4, 2015 Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow University of Ibadan, Department of Political Science Professor of Political Science Leonard & Claire Tow Professor, 2015/2016 Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA This paper was originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, D.C. December 5-8, 2002.  It was revised and updated in June 2015. Introduction We live in a rapidly changing, global world where the local and global are inextricably linked.  Due to innovations in communications technology and consequent extraordinary increases in trade, financial flows, and the ideas that shape what we think and how we think, we live in both a totally interconnected world and a radically disconnected world—a process I have described as full of an