Higher education was a central concern of postcolonial governments as they set out to produce national academic elites. In socialist Tanzania, the elitism inherent to systems of higher education was challenged by policies aiming to create an egalitarian
African political leaders emphasized the need to train their own citizens as engineers in order to implement large-scale infrastructural projects, foster industrializa- tion, and man management posts in the expanding machinery of state Research was supported by a scholarship (Abschlussstipendium) from ...