Islamic Campuses Proliferate in Africa

…fueled by Saudi money.

As Islamic higher education spreads in Africa, so do concerns about its goals and influence.

“These universities are controlled from the outside because they are funded from the outside,” says Muhammed Haron, a scholar of Islam at the public University of Botswana. “The problem is that the programs themselves are often molded in conservative [Islamic] ideology.” (Megan Lindow, “Islamic Universities Spread Through Africa, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 6, 2007)