USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re :Toyin Adepoju on Afe Babalola donation

 Toyin  Adepoju you seem to be looking at our  univessities  with rose  tinted glasses.

We need to sort out Nigerian universities before we start injecting serious funds besides the overheads  are different from Cambridge or oxford and nigerians and africans would still be able to find use Of afe babalolas donation

 there are a lot of dysfunctional things happening in nigerian universities which have come to light  and these are not due to lack of funds.these dysfunctional  things   have been  the subject of such works as Kolera   Kolej by Femi osofisan,    the naked gods by vincent ike and very recently  lola akande in what it takes.you might also like  to seek wole soyinkas opinion antedd  That of Professor Jide Osuntokun  via the   Toyin Falola interview series . the prognosis aas we have found is not very encouragi

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