Becoming an African university : Makerere, 1922-2000 /
Carol Sicherman.
- Trenton N.J. : Africa World Press, 2004.
- xxii, 416 p. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of higher education for East Africans -- Becoming a University College -- The glory years of Makerere University College: the 1950s and 1960s -- Makerere University College and the University of East Africa (1963-70) -- Research, curriculum, and teaching in the 1960s -- Decline and persistence (1970-86) -- From Ivory Tower to lighthouse: Makerere as a National University (1986-2000) -- The Medical School -- Art and the "Educated Man" -- Cultivating the faculty of Agriculture -- Libraries and Librarianship -- "Very small . . . very mighty": women and the rise of Women and Gender Studies -- Relationships with governments -- Staff development -- Beyond the Ivory Tower: three examples.