Education and Development Outcomes for Equality and Governance in Africa

This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and governance. Using case studies and experiences from different parts of the continent, this book assesses how the potential for human resources, in terms of education, can be leveraged in the development process to achieve equity, inclusive development and governance outcomes in Africa. This book builds on the "resource curse" to focus on human resources as an alternative paradigm to sustainable development in Africa. At a time when concerns over access to quality education is an important issue among policy makers and international development agents, this timely project calls attention to one of the most critical aspects of development in Africa.

1. Introduction: Education and Human Capital, Current Debates, and Policy Imperatives.- 2. Unpacking the Rhetorical Equity for Development: Is Equity Available in an Unequal Society?.- 3. Educational Expansion in Africa (1965–2010): Implications for Economic Inequality between Countries.- 4. Free Education, Schooling Outcomes, and Wages: An Inequality Analysis in Benin after the 2006 Free Tuition Policy.- 5. Education Driving Agriculture-Led Economic and Social Transformation in Africa.- 6. Science as a Development Tool in Ghana: Challenges, Outcomes, and Possibilities for Women Academic Scientists.- 7. Education and Human Capital Development among Geographically Isolated Regions and Marginalized Groups in Kenya.- 8. The Education, Inclusion, and Development of Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Crucial Aspects for Governance in Africa.- 9. The Impracticalities of Pragmatic Education: The Disconnect between Top-Down Human Capital Building Policies and Processes of Schooling.- 10. The Significance of Doctoral Education and Training for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 11. What Kenyan Youth Want and Why It Matters for Peace.

Muna B. Ndulo is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law at Cornell Law School, USA. He is also the Elizabeth and Arthur Reich Director of the Leo and Arvilla Berger International Legal Studies Program, Cornell Law School and Director of the Institute for African Development, Cornell University. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution making, governance, human rights, and foreign direct investment. He has consulted in constitution making in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Somalia. He is a graduate of the University of Zambia (LLB), Harvard University, (LLM) and Trinity College, Oxford, (DPhil).

N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba is Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education and the study of gender at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, USA.  She is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Sciences and the President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). She studied at Universite’ d’ Abidjan, Université Lyon II (History and Sociology; MA), and Universite’ Laval, and holds a PhD in Comparative Education (Economics and Sociology) from the University of Chicago. She has published extensively on higher education, equity, gender, ICT, and knowledge production.