The 'new' African higher education? (original) (raw)
IN 1931 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION COMMITTED 250,000tothenascentfieldofAfricanStudiesbyfundingthenewInternationalInstituteforAfricanLanguagesandCultures(IIALC),laterrenamedtheInternationalAfricanInstitute.ThemissionaryJosephOldhamandanthropologistBronislawMalinowskiconvincedtheRockefellertrusteesthattheIIALC′sextensiveprogrammeofresearchandfundedfellowshipswouldinformthepractical′socialengineering′,asMalinowskionceputit,thataccompaniedcolonialrule.Three−quartersofacenturylater,itisfittingthattheRockefellerFoundationisnowfundinginstitutionalandresearchcapacity−buildingonthecontinentitself.FourmajorAmericanphilanthropicinstitutions−theCarnegieCorporationandtheRockefeller,FordandMacArthurFoundations−havetogetherinvestedmorethan250,000 to the nascent field of African Studies by funding the new International Institute for African Languages and Cultures (IIALC), later renamed the International African Institute. The missionary Joseph Oldham and anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski convinced the Rockefeller trustees that the IIALC's extensive programme of research and funded fellowships would inform the practical 'social engineering', as Malinowski once put it, that accompanied colonial rule. Three-quarters of a century later, it is fitting that the Rockefeller Foundation is now funding institutional and research capacity-building on the continent itself. Four major American philanthropic institutions-the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller, Ford and MacArthur Foundations-have together invested more than 250,000tothenascentfieldofAfricanStudiesbyfundingthenewInternationalInstituteforAfricanLanguagesandCultures(IIALC),laterrenamedtheInternationalAfricanInstitute.ThemissionaryJosephOldhamandanthropologistBronislawMalinowskiconvincedtheRockefellertrusteesthattheIIALC′sextensiveprogrammeofresearchandfundedfellowshipswouldinformthepractical′socialengineering′,asMalinowskionceputit,thataccompaniedcolonialrule.Three−quartersofacenturylater,itisfittingthattheRockefellerFoundationisnowfundinginstitutionalandresearchcapacity−buildingonthecontinentitself.FourmajorAmericanphilanthropicinstitutions−theCarnegieCorporationandtheRockefeller,FordandMacArthurFoundations−havetogetherinvestedmorethan60 million in higher education reform in six countries
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