Philosophy without borders: Relocating African critical authority in the global knowledge society. forthcoming in Philosophical Foundations of the Humanities through African Perspectives
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Global advisory councils have urged the architects of higher education policy in African economies to help tackle their bloated rural and urban informal sectors by narrowing the application of scarce government revenues for the greatest possible short term success of making graduates employable, with the expectation of long term gains for sustainable development. I argue that the neo-liberal economists’ prescriptions for increasing the relevance of African public universities in their respective national agendas are unrealistic.