About Us

Enhancing African and Global Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity

 

The missions of the African Higher Education and Research Observatory are to:

  1. enhance African and global peace, happiness and prosperity, through curriculum innovations, skills-based training, and best practices in education and research;
  2. train new kinds of academics, graduates, and professionals, who are extraordinarily empowered to use multidisciplinary knowledge to resolve challenging societal and organisational problems, with creating, synthesising, responsible, and ethical minds;
  3. democratise a Corporate-Academic Research and Enterprise Development (CARED) educational philosophy, by which advanced research is spun-off into social and for-profit enterprises, which sustain continual entrepreneurial wealth creation;
  4. anchor this wealth creation on radical innovations in research, teaching, learning, assessments, consulting, and community services, which lead to profound personal, organisational, enterprise, national, continental, and global socio-economic development and excellence; 
  5. enable African countries to achieve the 2030 United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the forms of: poverty eradication; critical, innovative and entrepreneurial education; research-driven business and economic development; effective knowledge exchange networks, academic development and research consortia, strategic partnerships with higher educational institutions, world bodies, governments, and industry;
  6. consequently, make African higher education globally preeminent using all insights in key higher education literature, for example Jonathan R. Cole (2009)’s The Great American University;
  7. importantly, spread these ideas pervasively in Africa and developing countries of the Global South through an innovative ecosystem of digital, entrepreneurial universities, and platforms;
  8. promote mutually beneficial Transnational and Translational Higher Education Initiatives among African universities and key regions of the world – UK, Europe, US (The Americas), China, India, Japan, Asia generally, and Middle East.

National development visions have been created in many African countries, for example Nigerian Vision 2020 (NV2020) and Kenyan Vision 2030. These visions are underpinned by detailed and systematic development plans. An example is the Nigerian National Empowerment and Economic Development Strategy (NEEDS) document. Also, there are related national socio-economic goals addressed by annual budgets of different countries. These visions, plans and goals show a desire for accelerated socio-economic development of the continent. However, the evidence on the ground indicates that most African countries are failing to achieve the goals year on year. Moreover, they are lagging behind in indicators of excellence in key national systems – education, health, economic growth and management, and political development. To redress this problem AFRIHERO maintains a positive offensive on Africa’s capacities to lead from the front its quest for socio-economic development, in partnership with international development agencies. Our focus is on innovations in research, teaching, learning, assessments, consulting, and community services, especially in African higher educational institutions. We are a coalition of multiple stakeholders e.g. academics and professionals, higher educational institutions (HEIs), professional associations, civil society organizations, the private sector, public sector organizations and research think-tanks. This enables us to continually scan world-wide innovations in higher education in order to pursue the following aims and objectives.

Enquiries

For more details, please contact us at:

Email:  info@afrihero.org.uk; or through Tel. no:  +447772632150 to speak to the Director of Research and Enterprise Development, Professor Patrick Oseloka EZEPUE