his book examines the relationship between private universities and public universities in Africa, primarily to underscore the underpinning fundamental politics, systems, and mechanisms that help in the sustenance of one beyond expected outcomes. Generally, many African countries have survived from the beginning by adopting socialism as their ideology across every stratum of human existence. That particular orientation has therefore necessitated the creation of values in nearly all areas especially their politics and economic engagements.

The implication is that the socialist approach to critical aspects of human endeavors such as education has introduced a model of development that in some way encourages a laissez-faire attitude of people toward the things that would bring them to maximize innate potential and power they have. The book utilizes updated methodologies in the gathering of data for the enhancement of quality intellection. 

Toyin Falola, PhD, is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and most recently, the Kluge Chair of the Countries and Culture of the South, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Toyin Falola has received twenty-five honorary doctorates. Ten books have been written on him, including two full-length books by Abdul Bangura examine his contributions to pedagogy: Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies; and Falolaism: The Epistemologies and Methodologies of Africana Knowledge. He served as the Chair of the ASA Herskovits Prize for the best book on Africa, the chair of the Martin Klein Book prize for the best book on African history (American Historical Association), and committee member of the Joel Gregory Prize for the Canadian Association of African Studies. He once served as the Vice President of the International Scientific Committee, UNESCO Slave Route Project, President of the African Studies Association and President of the Nigerian Studies Association. He is the current President of the Consortium of Pan-African University Press.