India’s soft power moves in African higher education

By Maina Waruru. The fruits of a conference held in Delhi in 2008, hosted by the Indian government and attended by African heads of state, are beginning to ripen – perhaps more in the field of higher education than in any other area of cooperation. The Asian country is setting up a string of institutes and collaborations across Africa. The India-Africa Forum envisaged closer economic and cultural ties in a ‘soft power’ move seen by analysts as an effort by the emerging South Asian giant to make its mark alongside China. Read more...