The full text of the former president of South Africa’s speech at the THE Africa Universities Summit
Inside Higher Ed - August 15 2015
In a speech at the inaugural Times Higher Education Africa
Universities Summit, Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa,
offered his assessment of how higher education might play a central role in the next 50 years of development in the continent.
Here is the full text of Mr Mbeki’s speech, which was
delivered at the University of Johannesburg, which hosted the THE
summit, on 30 July:
We have gathered here at the University of Johannesburg to consider
an important matter – “Moving Africa’s Universities Forward”.
I am certain that it is a matter of common cause among us and
particularly the distinguished leaders of our universities that there
has been extensive discussion over the years relating to the matter of
the role and place of the African university in the 21st century.
We also have the advantage that only four months ago we had the first
African Higher Education Summit on Revitalising Higher Education for
Africa’s Future, which was held in Dakar, Senegal.
Even before that, in 2009, the Association of African Universities
issued its “Abuja Declaration on Sustainable Development in Africa: The
Role of Higher Education”, adopted at its 12th general conference of
that year.
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