Why nonsense of ‘my varsity is better than yours’ must end now

The endless ‘my university is better than yours’ debate originated from academic arrogance of scholars in Western Europe and subsequently spread to Sub-Saharan Africa through the colonial higher education system.

The debate that raged then was as to whether the University of London’s constituent colleges in Sub-Saharan Africa — notably Makerere, Ibadan, Legon, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam — had the same high quality standards as its British counterparts such as the London School of Economics (LSE), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and King’s College, London.