Duality of knowledge paradigms requires institutional agility

Abstract

African universities should equip their students with a "duality" of knowledges in order to produce a cadre of graduates capable of navigating and transforming the socio-economic systems within which they operate, according to Doyin Atewologun, dean of the Rhodes Scholarships at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. "It is important to value the different forms of knowledge, including the particular kinds of knowledge that are produced where people are and where they come from," she says.