Abstract
Recent decades have seen rapid expansion of Higher Education in Africa – but recognition and valuing of the resultant African research and scholarship has often lagged behind. This bibliography represents the outcome from a southern African-University College London collaborative systematic search of peer-reviewed journal articles and books focused on doctoral supervision. Eligible publications result from the academic endeavours of African scholars based in African universities, sometimes in collaboration with others, and were published in English 2000-2024.
The introduction surveys the field in relation to fifteen well-defined areas of doctoral supervision in Africa. That is followed by a detailed methodology that supports replication or extension of the bibliography, and the bibliography itself is organised by those same fifteen areas of study. In all, 223 such publications from 34 countries are referenced. The bibliography therefore represents a long-overdue recognition and valuing of African work in this area, in a form that makes that work easily accessible to academics globally. Additionally, it identifies areas of doctoral supervision research currently under-represented in the continent