It is a well-established historical fact that Africa and India have cultivated continuous connections for thousands of years. Exchanges of commodities produced on each side of the Indian Ocean in specific political, administrative, and geographic spaces have constituted the guiding thread of these relations. In the modern and contemporary periods, these relations have been shaped through European colonial establishments and their legacies in both sides. Past policies of forced migration and resettlement for economic exploitation of the British colonies in Africa, especially East and Southern Africa, became determinants of the Africa-India relations. The anti-colonial and decolonization struggles in Asia in general and specifically in India and Africa throughout the 20th century created opportunities for a new Africa-India cooperation. In these new relations, formal education, especially higher education, have been playing a prominent role. The thrust of this paper is to analyze the important role of higher education in a South-South cooperation framework between India and Africa as a continent or individual countries. The fluctuating or declining patterns of the number of African students pursuing their education in India in the past decade or so are analyzed.

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历史视野中的非洲与印度的联系

一个公认的历史事实是，非洲和印度已经建立了数千年的持续联系。印度洋两岸在特定的政治，行政和地理空间内生产的商品的交换构成了这些关系的指导线。在近代和现代时期，这些关系是通过欧洲殖民地的建立及其双方的遗产而形成的。过去为非洲英属殖民地，特别是东非和南部非洲的经济殖民地进行经济移民的强迫移民和重新安置的政策，成为非印关系的决定因素。整个20世纪，亚洲特别是印度和非洲的反殖民和非殖民化斗争为新的非印合作创造了机会。在这些新关系中，正规教育，尤其是高等教育，发挥了重要作用。本文的重点是分析高等教育在印度和非洲作为一个大陆或单个国家之间的南南合作框架中的重要作用。分析了过去十年左右在印度接受教育的非洲学生人数的波动或下降趋势。