Abstract:
The discourse of the internationalisation of higher education con
tinues to grow in influence. Whilst the bulk of the IHE literature has
been Northern-focused and dominated, there was an African
strand a decade or so ago that has sought to understand what the
dis-course means in African contexts, shaped profoundly as they
have been by colonialism. This debate is ripe for revisiting given
the very different context of the post-2015 period and a return to
debates about the decolonisation of African higher education.
Through an exploration of the case of Zimbabwe, we question of
whether IHE discourses and practices can be placed at the service
of develop-ment alternatives in spite of their Northern neoliberal
roots and whether, therefore, there may be a new notion emerging
of a development university that is grounded both in local and
global contexts
