ABSTRACT
The Great Zimbabwe University makes a compelling case for internationalization in the context of its heritage, arts, and culture niche. This chapter analyzes the low-income status and historical and socio-political context in which the university operates in order to understand internationalization in this context. The main contribution of this chapter/case study in the volume is that it demonstrates a contradiction to the dominant critical scholarly discourse on the internationalization of universities that portrays such internationalization as a vector in extending Northern hegemony over the universities of the Global South. This case study shows that internationalization in the Global South can actually constitute a force countering neo-colonialism or post-colonialism even in very adverse socio-economic and political contexts and can have a number of positive unintended consequences. These include a development away from an overly subject-centeredness in programs, a movement to holistic continuous assessment, stimulating more use of on-line teaching and e-learning, and promoting “internationalization at home.”
