PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mazrui, Ali
TI  - The African University as a Multinational Corporation: Problems of Penetration and Dependency
AID  - 10.17763/haer.45.2.h62846n66230j150
DP  - 1975 Jul 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 191--210
VI  - 45
IP  - 2
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/45/2/191.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/45/2/191.full
SO  - herp1975 Jul 01; 45
AB  - In recent years multinational corporations have been criticized for their exploitation of African economies as well as for their influence on African culture. In this article, the author argues that Western influence is expressed through another African institution— the university. For the author the university is an analogue to a multinational corporation: born as an extension of a metropolitan university whose direction and instructions come from a European country, the African university continues to serve other than African interests. The author describes the symbiotic relationship between education and economic development,and then outlines strategies for changing the university so it will foster cultural as well as economic independence in African nations.