Knowledge Across Borders: Equitable Mutually Beneficial Partnerships Between African and Global North Universities

Strategic research partnerships and collaborations between universities in Africa and the Global North are growing rapidly.Knowledge Across Borders critically reflects on how African universities and universities in the Global North conceptualize, operationalize, and navigate the imperatives of equality, equity and mutual benefit. Bringing African universities to the fore and drawing on experience of existing partnerships in over 20 research networks, 50 countries, over 50 universities and 4 continents, this is the first book focused on critical reflections of knowledge networks created and co-created by African universities with universities in the Global North.Addressing how partnerships are often forged in what are asymmetrical contexts and institutions - with imbalances in levels of institutional development, experience in research, academic reputation and unequal resources - chapters focus on how reciprocity can be grounded in the research mission of knowledge networks.Rather than