Cuba’s Educational Mission in Africa: The Example of Angola

Paternalistic internationalism and (de)colonial practices of Cold War higher education exchange: Bulgaria's connections with Cuba and Angola

“…This was the case with a report on Cuba prepared by RFE. Scholars have discussed both the internal HE policies and the alternative practices of HE exchange as rather based on solidarity and thus breaking up with an over-ideologized developmentalist approach (González, Hickling-Hudson, & Lehr, 2012;Hatzky, 2012). Yet the discussion on Cuba's education policy as seen by RFE did not acknowledge such achievements (Figure 1).…”

“…Recent scholarship concerning exchange students in East Germany (Burton, 2019;Pugach, 2018) or Czechoslovakia (Hole cková, 2018) has been similar in focus. An emphasis on policy travel has been present in the work on Cuban exchange with other socialist countries, yet with a strong focus on South-South development, aid, and exchange (see Hatzky, 2012;Hickling-Hudson, González, & Preston, 2012). The role of the East European socialist countries in relation to Latin American or African regimes has so far remained mostly outside this latter discussion.…”