The Africanisation of Academic Development Programs: A case study

Abstract

The question this article addresses is: what does the Africanisation of academic development programmes  involve? In trying to answer this question, we shall discuss the African concepts of ubuntu and communality in  relation to academic development programmes initiated as part of the Scholars Development Plan at the  University of South Africa, in the College of Human Sciences.

Keywords: African perspective, academic development, ubuntu, communality.