ABSTRACT
A thematic overview of the contemporary multicampus university in Africa has been presented in the preceding chapters. Using Kenyatta University in Kenya as a case in point, the chapters have underscored the complex nature of the branch campuses in the contemporary climate of marketization, privatization, and globalization of higher education. The new multicampus system exhibits variation from the traditional campuses in the earlier dispensation, generates new governance models, entails reengineering in institutional revenue diversifi cation and control, has consequences for academic quality, and invites contentious issues in the road to the equalization of educational opportunities. For all their contributions in building the peripheral sector in the contemporary African state universities, branch campuses remain an integral part of the higher education landscape on the continent.
