After a wave of opposition and a petition drive that cited views deemed racist and offensive against Africans, a statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was removed this week from a ...

University of Embu chancellor Prof Paul Musili installs Prof Daniel Mugendi as the first Vice Chancellor of the institution last week. (Joseph Muchiri, Standard) Thanks to JPR Ochieng Odero, a leading ...

After a hitman tried to assassinate the vice-chancellor of Fort Hare University but ended up gunning down the academic’s bodyguard, in January 2023, South Africa’s police abducted and tortured a union ...

The Ministry of Education has granted a Letter of Interim Authority to African Talent University (ATU), a move set to expand access to higher education by increasing training opportunities for Form ...

Emory University, a private school in Georgia, has announced the rollout of a new African American studies Ph.D. program that will be the first at a private university in the South. According to a ...

An assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University in New Jersey, Dieng leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.

Peter Mageto has been elected vice chancellor of Africa University, the Pan-African, United Methodist–affiliated school in Zimbabwe. A Kenyan, Mageto will be the first non-Zimbabwean to lead the ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

University of Johannesburg provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Once again, Times Higher Education’s annual global university rankings have drawn a lot of attention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration has unleashed a flurry of restrictive measures targeting higher education and international students, ...