What should be the role of university education in Africa assumes and rightly too that in spite of the relatively long period of university education in the continent, its mission, to a considerable degree, is still either misconstrued or has not been properly formulated by those who owe us the duty to do so. Yet this ill-defined problems and prospects, as it were, are not accidental. They have a lot to do with the historical antecedents of African politics, politics of colonialism and associated hangover of an imperial order that sees in education one means of maintaining authority without the corresponding responsibility, as Kwame Nkrumah once suggested, with which Walter Rodney also agreed.[1]
