Educating an African fit for the 21st Century
Education systems, all the world over, are in transition. Indeed, we are in a global education crisis. The lack of resources, infrastructure, trained teachers, and funding are just some of the structural constraints that prevent millions around the world from receiving a proper education. Conflicts and war, poverty, discrimination, inequality, and inequity exacerbate the crisis […]
Towards Structural Changes for Building Responsible Academic Partnerships
We are time overdue for an examination of global development using different lenses and engaging more diverse voices. Institutions in global development must shift and broaden their horizons to recognise that global inequalities, exclusion and injustices also affect academic development work. In this spirit, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the […]
Afrika, tuko pamoja? Africa, are we together?
Ever since I entered the doors of the University of Eastern Finland, then University of Kuopio, I heard stories of Africa education and research collaboration. The team of researchers and educators that worked with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to develop fisheries and aquaculture on Lake Tanganyika, led by Professor Emeritus Ossi V. Lindqvist […]