ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a discussion of emergent spatialities of international higher education and shows how a change in their configuration is notable. Education is being ostensibly ‘unbounded’, at the same time as certain boundaries and hierarchies around what constitutes academic ‘excellence’ and valuable institutionalised cultural capital, persist in significant ways. Newer, regional patterns of student and knowledge mobilities are emerging, which include what could be described as South–South educational flows and linkages, potentially ‘decentring the hegemony of Western education institutions as sites of modern education’. The links between international education and post-coloniality have only very recently been addressed within extant scholarship. Extant research on linkages between China and Africa have often focused primarily on trade and/or resource extraction, neglecting important ‘geo-social’ aspects, of which education is one salient aspect. The chapter discusses the nascent discussions around China’s growing contemporary influence upon education and knowledge with/in Africa.
