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Internationalisation and Africanisation in a Globalising World

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Concepts such as globalisation, internationalisation, citizenship, good governance, multiparty democracy and civilian rule have become fashionable in academic circles in recent decades. Such concepts have been popularised inter alia by the public media, advertisers, as well as academic and political institutions (Chachage, 2003, pp. 2–3).

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Mngomezulu, B.R. (2017). Internationalisation and Africanisation in a Globalising World. In: Cross, M., Ndofirepi, A. (eds) Knowledge and Change in African Universities. African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-842-6_11

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