USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)

It is uncertain how this Journal or Institute of International Education defines the colleges and universities surveyed in this report. However, I would seriously dispute the Nigerian data because I can count more than 300 Nigerian Scholars teaching in colleges and universities in just 6 States in the US, not talking of the whole country. In fact, the State of Georgia alone has more than 100 Nigerian scholars teaching in Colleges and Universities. So the published stats are very bogus, spurious and under-stated for whatever purpose the authors had! So no serious-minded person should buy the numbers. Take care. JUI

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the size of nigerian intellectuals does not reflect that of the country's population.
 

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Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)

Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents

According to the Institute of International Education, during the 2008-09 academic year there were 113,494 foreign scholars teaching at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Of these, 3,800, or 3.3 percent, were from the African continent.

 

About 30 percent of these African scholars were from the Arab nations of North Africa, mostly from Egypt. But there were about 2,700 academics from black African nations teaching in the U.S.

 

There were 441 black academics from Nigeria teaching at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2008-09 academic year. This was the most from any black African nation. Kenya came in a very close second with 440 scholars teaching in the United States.

 

Other countries sending more than 100 scholars to teach at U.S. institutions of higher learning were Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa.

 

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