‘Castells in Africa’ – Some insights for universities

By Johan Muller, Nico Cloete and François van Schalkwyk. After considering the detailed empirical pictures sketched in Chapters 6 to 9 of Castells in Africa: Universities and Development, it is sobering to return to the very first of the three chapters by Castells (Chapter 3), and to realise again how prescient it was, and how many pitfalls it anticipated. More...