How are universities in Africa linked – and how are they responding – to unfolding US-China technologies competition?
Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi
Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi lectures in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University. A former fellow of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation of Social Science in Africa (2013-2014), doctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Peace and Development, KU Leuven (2013-2017), catalyst fellow of the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (2019 and 2020), and American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2021), Tobi is finalising a monograph titled Imageries of Mao Zedong’s China in Ghanaian newspapers, 1957-1976. His research interest is centred on the “development question” in Africa with a strong bias for Africa-China relations, youth service, nation-building, research ethics and knowledge (re)production.
Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi
Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi lectures in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University. A former fellow of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation of Social Science in Africa (2013-2014), doctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Peace and Development, KU Leuven (2013-2017), catalyst fellow of the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (2019 and 2020), and American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2021), Tobi is finalising a monograph titled Imageries of Mao Zedong’s China in Ghanaian newspapers, 1957-1976. His research interest is centred on the “development question” in Africa with a strong bias for Africa-China relations, youth service, nation-building, research ethics and knowledge (re)production.
Technologies, a higher education for Africa
How are universities in Africa linked – and how are they responding – to unfolding US-China technologies competition?