ABSTRACT
A salient fact to be noted at the outset is the way in which the rapid expansion of both foreign and indigenous higher education has affected the developing countries in recent years. One contrast between indigenous and foreign education that is often important hardly holds in the African case: both are likely to involve alienation from cultural roots and from major segments of the current society. A salient fact to be noted at the outset is the way in which the rapid expansion of both foreign and indigenous higher education has affected the developing countries. Given the association of reliance on foreign study with dependent colonial status and the symbolic value of the indigenous university as a badge of national autonomy and parity, the strong appeal of investing heavily in the development of indigenous higher education is evident. A different case is represented by indigenous higher education as a historical novelty in the developing nations of tropical Africa.
