If you once had hope that the state of African universities was ok, or that it was improving or better still, if you have been priding yourself that you are in a great university because your father said UI was good or ABU was great or such other statements like great Ife and so on, then u need to read this research finding and make up your mind.
Truth is currently, African Universities lack the wherewithal and facilities to lift the poorest continent (Africa) out of its present comatose position. And it is a known fact that higher education, the type provided by universities is the surest way to lift a country out of poverty. The poverty alleviation (or is it eradication) programs are supposed to be designed in universities as evidences of research would suggest. Here, the case is different. Furthermore, the world universities ranking of 2006 ( ) shows that no university in Africa is ranked among the first 1000!
Read on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/world/africa/20senegal.html?ex=1180411200&en=7bb33ca06c445fe2&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Your comments would do some little to help, what should we do?

na today you dey know??

hello there,

just to follow the topic, not all African Universities are as bad as Nigerian Universities,
for instance, Ghana education is better than ours here in Nigeria.
Their maritime school is one of the best in Africa. while ours at Oron is left to ruin.

recently, a company specializing in tools calibration and equipment had a vacancy for FIVE MECH. ENGINEERS,
out of all the applications filed, on interviewing the applicants, it was observed that almost all of them
were just holding the "B.Sc-bearing-paper" for nothing. their knowledge was soooo shallow that they couldn't
even defend the paper. Only a girl from Nigeria and FOUR GOOD engineers from Ghana were well qualified
after interview and testing.

Analyze this! for a big country like Nigeria. [b][/b]