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Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU) lecturers demonstrate along Nairobi streets on June 6th,2017. [Photo/Elvis Ogina/Standard]
The just concluded Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) Higher Education institute in Makerere University (Uganda) could not have come at a better time.
Convened by Prof Ibrahim Oanda -- a specialist of higher education and an ex-Kenyatta University don and now the current research and grants Director at Codesria -- and directed by Prof Michael Faborode -- a celebrated former Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (Ife) in Nigeria -- the two-week event provided congenial settings for discussion on the challenges faced by Sub-Saharan universities.
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