Lessons for universities as diaspora scholars return homeCompleting doctoral studies in Germany and returning home was never a dilemma to us. The usefulness of African academics in the diaspora to African universities is obvious for two main reasons. While some African doctoral graduates choose not to return home to support higher education efforts, another group of highly skilled African doctoral graduates are beginning to return to African universities. These include experienced scholars, who were already well-established in European and North American universities, returning to Africa to teach in local universities. In conversations we had with African scholars previously based in the West, we found interesting reasons for scholars choosing to return home.

Source: Standard Digital January 12, 2019 06:33 UTC